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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, was on Thursday, questioned by a team of police investigators at his office, his spokesperson said. Mr Saraki had indicated that he would not report to the police as directed in a letter by the Inspector-General, Ibrahim Idris. He said this in his response to the police chief dated July 24. In it, the Senate …

The police on Thursday said they are investigating the “purported kidnap” of a senator, Dino Melaye. The police also contradicted a claim which Mr Melaye’s spokesperson made to PREMIUM TIMES, saying they did not receive any complaint that the senator was abducted. Police spokesperson Jimoh Moshood said in a Thursday night statement that the Force Headquarters only read of the …

A former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has promised to support any presidential candidate he believes would transform Nigeria for good. Mr Obasanjo made this known on Thursday while playing host to a presidential aspirant, Kabiru Turaki, at the his residence located inside the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The former president said lack of qualitative leadership was one …

Far too many things break the heart about Nigeria but two of them take the cake. One is the inhibited selfishness of the country’s political elite while the other is the naivety or docility of the citizenry. In a sense, these two are a corollary one of the other but like the egg and the chick, it is hard to …

House of Representatives’ committee probing the status and management ofTreasury Single Account, TSA, yesterday, queried the lodgement of $4.9 million and N1.5 billion in an unnamed commercial bank without appropriate authorisation from the President. Consequently, the special committee summoned Minister of Environment, Ibrahim Jibril, to appear before it and explain why such an account should be maintained by his ministry …

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Thursday denied ever saying that the All Progressives Congress, APC, national Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was a bad luck to the party. This is as Vanguard reliably gathered that some Ministers have frowned at the comment made by the APC national Chairman where he had threatened to expel cabinet members who disobeyed his directives …

The Peoples Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party have described President Muhammadu Buhari as a common enemy of Nigerians. The spokespersons for both parties stated this at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday. They spoke when the National Publicity Secretary of the SDP, Princess Goldba Tolofari, paid a courtesy visit to her counterpart in the PDP, Mr …

Edo State Joint Account Allocation Committee (JAAC) has recorded N5 million increase in Internally Generated Revenue of the local councils for the month of June, which formed part of the N2.9 billion declared as the total allocation that accrued to the state for the sixth month of the year. This was disclosed by the Chairman, Oredo Local Government Area, Hon. …

… Obaseki seeks technical partnership with NTA on EBS revamp Feedback from the Nigerian Television Authority station’s global audience showed that the developmental strides of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State are being watched closely, through the NTA, by Nigerians and the international community. The Director General of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Yakubu Mohammed made the remarks during a …

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has announced his defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). His spokesperson, Terver Akase, confirmed the move to PREMIUM TIMES. “Yes, he has defected from APC to PDP,” Mr Akase said by phone Wednesday. Tahav Agerzua, a media adviser to the governor, also told …