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Senator Dino Melaye has said he will continue to speak the truth even if it costs him his life. “You speak the truth, you die; you lie, you die. Melaye Daniel Dino has decided to speak the truth and die,” the Senator representing Kogi West said on Wednesday in reaction to a letter that the Attorney-General of the Federation and …

Four people have died, including a police officer, and at least 20 people were injured in a major terror attack outside the Houses of Parliament, the Metropolitan police have confirmed. Mark Rowley, the head of counter-terrorism at the Met, said a police officer had been killed and his attacker shot. Two other people died after a vehicle drove at speed, …

On 21 July 2007, George W Bush underwent surgery to have five polyps removed after what was described as a routine colonoscopy. The date may have been lost to history, but for the rare invocation at the time of a constitutional amendment laying out how the transfer of power to the vice-president works in cases of presidential disability. For 125 …

The leader of an organization widely identified as an anti-Muslim hate group visited the White House on Tuesday and described her visit as “very productive”. Brigitte Gabriel, a Lebanese-American conservative, has written two books warning about the dangers of “radical Islam”. Act for America, the organization she founded, describes itself as the “the NRA of national security” and claims 500,000 …

A presidency under open-ended investigation for its ties to Russia. A director of the FBI, himself key in aiding the president’s election, not only confirming that inquiry but refuting the president’s claim of illegal surveillance by his predecessor. The first open hearing into Donald Trump’s alleged Russia connections on Monday ensured that the US president will operate under a cloud …

The Senate on Tuesday directed its Committee on Ethics and Privileges to conduct investigations into allegations that the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in January this year impounded an armoured Range Rover Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) belonging to Senate President Bukola Saraki. Saraki has however denied any links with the importation of the seized vehicle, stating that the matter was purely …

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, yesterday, gave reasons why he is yet to appoint Commissioners and Special Advisers, saying that he needed to sanitize the ministries and set up a template with which would be commissioners would work. The governor disclosed that he would send the list of commissioner nominees to the state House of Assembly for confirmation in …

Strong indications emerged yesterday that the face-off between the Senate and the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, (retd), is getting messier everyday, as the Federal Government has vowed that the Customs boss will not wear complete uniforms as directed by the senators who asked him come back next week Wednesday in complete Customs uniform. The …

The FBI director, James Comey, has confirmed for the first time that the agency is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow to influence the outcome of the presidential election. Comey had previously refused to comment on the existence of any such investigation but addressing the House intelligence committee, Comey reversed course and said he had been authorised …

The FBI director is due to appear on Monday morning before a congressional committee which will ask him whether Donald Trump was wiretapped and whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. James Comey’s appearance in the House of Representatives, alongside intelligence chiefs past and present, will be a climactic moment in the investigation of Russia’s role in …