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AHEAD today’s resumption from annual recess by federal lawmakers, security was, since on Monday, beefed up in and around the National Assembly complex. Nigerian Tribune observed the two roads leading to the complex from the office of the Head of Service and the Federal Secretariat were barricaded, to allow for easy control of human and traffic control. In addition, it …

Nigerian workers, under the umbrellas of the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, have asked the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, to vacate his office pending the determination of his case at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. The workers, who spoke across the country, said although Saraki is still on trial and has not been found …

The Presidency has maintained President Muhammadu Buhari is fully committed to improve national security and succour for Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs. This was contained in a statement by Garba Shehu, SSA to the President (Media & Publicity) in reaction to the earlier report that Buhari and his delegation to the United Nations missed the meeting to discuss and proffer solution …

New York – President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria yesterday in New York, United States of America impressed it upon the minds of world leaders to work assiduously for the elimination of hunger, illiteracy and disease by 2030. The president made the remark while addressing the United Nations Plenary Summit for the Adoption of the Post-2015 Development Agenda at the UN …

There are indications that politicians in the country have begun to lobby the Code of Conduct Bureau in a bid to amend some of the information in the asset declaration forms that they had earlier submitted. It was learnt that the development is because of fear of arrest as this is coming in the light of the ongoing trial of …

The Nigerian Army has said that more than 200 insurgents have surrendered to the military following the capture of the strategic town of Banki along the nation’s border with Cameroun on Thursday. Banki is famous as the centre of a growing international trade between Nigeria, Cameroun and other countries of the Central Africa. The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. …

There were indications on Friday that members of the Senate Unity Forum had started wooing senators loyal to the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki. It was reliably gathered that the move was part of fresh efforts to change the leadership of the Senate. The group comprises senators, who were opposed to the emergence of Saraki as senate president. It was …

The list of nominees into the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari is ready, and this is authoritative. President Buhari, it was learnt, ratified the list for transmission to the Senate shortly before his departure to the United States on Thursday. The list, according to an authoritative presidency source, is a mixture of technocrats and politicians across all divides in the …

Former Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva has described as a deliberate “act of mischief” and “lies” the claims by the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that he truncated the electoral process during the disputed governorship primaries of the All Progressive Congress APC in the state. According to him, though the Edo State Governor was the Chairman of the …

Mr. Vice-President, Mr. Speaker, Honorable Members of Congress, Dear Friends, I am most grateful for your invitation to address this Joint Session of Congress in “the land of the free and the home of the brave”. I would like to think that the reason for this is that I too am a son of this great continent, from which we …