Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district in the Nigerian National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye has taken a swipe at the Buhari-led executive government, maitaining that the president should not be the Minister of petroleum.

FOOTBALL Association of Zambia (FAZ) president Andrew Kamanga has said that the rules and regulations governing the game made it difficult to appeal against Botswana referee Joshua Bondo  who officiated the game between the Super Eagles and Zambia in Uyo last Saturday.

Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, National Chairman, National Caretaker Committee, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has reaffirmed the party’s commitment to honouring its zoning agreement. He stated this on Tuesday in Abuja in a meeting with Northern leaders and elders of PDP to harmonise the region’s position on the zoning arrangement for the 2019 general elections and the […]

Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district in the Nigerian National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye has taken a swipe at the Buhari-led executive government, maitaining that the president should not be the Minister of petroleum. Senator Melaye who lamented that there are so many square pegs in round holes in the current administration especially as regards some ministers also said that a budget of 7trillion naira presented by Buhari was needless in that Nigeria can only afford and spend just 2 trillion, going by the implementation of the budget so far. 

Senator representing the people of Kogi West Senatorial district in the Nigerian National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye has given a report card of his representation of his constituent.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an end to the death penalty Tuesday, insisting it has “no place in the 21st century.”

The federal government 2017 budget is being partly financed with money recovered from treasury looters, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.

The Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, says for Nigeria to meet its seafarers need, there is need to establish maritime universities in the country.
Dogara said this on Tuesday at the public hearing on two bills proposing the establishment of the Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta and Maritime University, Oron in Akwa Ibom.

Governor Ayodele Fayose on Tuesday kick started the third anniversary of his administration by celebrating with the physically challenged people in Ado Ekiti

Three hundred Boko Haram suspects were officially remanded in custody in Nigeria on Tuesday, as hearings got under way in the first mass trials linked to the Islamist insurgency.

As part of activities marking his third year in office, Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has given jobs to 51 physically challenged persons in the state.

Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign States of Biafra, MASSOB, has urged Ndigbo to stop dreaming about producing a Nigerian President, stressing that the idea will never work as no Igbo man can be elected President of Nigeria.

Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has said that he has no plan of running for president in 2019.

Following the outbreak of Monkey Pox in the neighbouring Ekiti State, Osun State government has created three isolation centres to handle the case in case the state is equally affected in the future.