President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the National Assembly seeking for another $500 million Eurobond to finance capital projects in the 2016 Budget. This was revealed on Wednesday during the Senate plenary. The Senate had earlier in the year secretly approved a $1 billion Eurobond
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In continuation of clearance operation of remnants of Boko Haram, troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE – 112 Task Force Battalion, 22 Task Force Brigade, carried out a major offensive against suspected hideouts of the terrorists. The areas include Artano, Saduguma, Duve, Bordo, Kala, Bok, Magan, Misherde, Ahisari, Gilgil, Mika, Hiwa, Kutila and Shirawa settlements in […]
The Clerk of the House of Representatives Committee on Agricultural Production and Services, Mohammed Shuaibu, on Monday slumped and died at the National Assembly complex, Abuja. Shuaibu died few minutes before the commencement of a committee meeting. It was gathered that late Shuaibu slumped at about 12 noon while walking on a staircase and was […]
An official of Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr Timothy Olaobaju, on Monday, narrated how a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, was said to have stashed a sum of $115,010,000 from Fidelity Bank Plc with instruction to change it into naira and distribute it among individuals in the 36 states of the federation. An […]
Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) has insisted that the controversial Malabu oil Block Agreement was endorsed by the previous administrations of Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. Adoke in an official letter written to the current Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami (SAN),
Alhaji Mamuda Shinkafi, a former Governor of Zamfara State, on Sunday defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Shinkafi became governor in 2007 on the platform of All Nigeria Peoples Party and defected to the Peoples Democratic Party in 2008. He however lost to the APC in 2011 and had since then remained in the […]










