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The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has threatened to release 11 pictures which he said would proof to Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari’s health had deteriorated. Fayose said there was no iota of truth in the claim by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo that the President was fast recuperating in London. The governor, who spoke with journalists in Abuja …

Following the ruling of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, which sacked Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, the National Caretaker Committee of the party, under the leadership of Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has taken over the PDP national secretariat in Abuja after the judgment. The secretariat was until Wednesday morning occupied by Sheriff and …

Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday said that President Muhammad Buhari who has been on medical vacation in a London hospital was recuperating and will return to Nigeria very soon. Osinbajo had left to London on Tuesday after holding Presidential Quarterly Business Forum with the private sector at the Old Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday. After the …

The House of Representatives is unhappy that two ministerial nominees screened and passed by the Senate have not been inaugurated by the Acting, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. The House, on Tuesday, asked Osinbajo to inaugurate the ministers and assign portfolios to them “within one week.” They are Mr. Stephen Ocheni, a nominee from Kogi State, and Mr. Suleiman Hassan, who was …

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will soon brief the nation on the outcome of his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in London. Mr Laolu Akande, the Senior Special Assistant to the Acting President on Media and Publicity, made this known on his twitter handle on late Tuesday night. He described the meeting as ““a very good meeting.” He said: ““We will …

Has Donald Trump Jr broken the law? And what kind of legal trouble, exactly, might he or other Trumpworld figures be in, culminating with the president himself? Have we just gotten a step closer to impeachment? Or is that state of play basically unchanged? Newly released emails seem to show the eldest Trump son leaping at an offer of “ultra …

The Imo State government has forbidden traditional rulers from speaking English or any other foreign language at public functions or in their palaces while conducting affairs of their communities. Governor Rochas Okorocha, who gave the directive, said the monarchs could use interpreters, if the need arises. Okorocha spoke while handing over letters of recognition and staff of office to 19 …

The Supreme Court will today wednesday 12th July, deliver judgment on the appeal by the Ahmed Makarfi-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the decision of the Court of Appeal which recognised Ali Modu Sheriff as the authentic chairman of the party. The Makarfi group has already sent notice out to its loyalists encouraging them to come to the court in …

The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday left Nigeria for London, United Kingdom, where he is scheduled to meet ailing President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari left the country on May 7 for the British capital where he is currently receiving medical treatment. He had, in a communication to the two chambers of the National Assembly indicated that only his doctors would …

The House of Representatives on Tuesday waded into the controversial introduction of National Values/Civic Education in school curriculum, which requires children to be taught Islamic Religious Knowledge and Christian Religious Knowledge as compulsory subjects, irrespective of their religious beliefs. In the previous order, IRK and CRK were taught as independent subjects, leaving Christian students with the choice of taking CRK …