Category: Politics

Members of the House of Representatives did not mince words on Tuesday when they said President Muhammadu Buhari committed an “impeachable offence” by authorising the purchase of $462million jets for the military without appropriation by the National Assembly. Buhari is buying 12 Tucano aircraft from the US with the money. The planes will be delivered in 2020. The lawmakers became angry as soon as the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, read a letter from Buhari, informing the House that the expenditure was done in “anticipation of approval” by the National Assembly.…

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied creating 30,000 additional polling units in order to compromise the 2019 general elections. Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party`s (PDP), on Friday alleged that INEC was planning to create 30,000 illegal polling units in some remote areas. A statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, on Sunday in Abuja, urged Nigerians to disregard the allegation. Oyekanmi explained that the commission received 3,789 requests nationwide for the creation of new polling units.…

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British Prime Minister Theresa May says the young people of the Commonwealth, leading the youth forum and participating in other activities, have inspired the heads of government. The prime minister said this while speaking at the first meeting of Commonwealth heads of government at Queen Elizabeth’s home in Windsor, United Kingdom. “Good morning everyone and welcome to Windsor castle. I think in the best Commonwealth tradition, in the intimacy and privacy of our retreat today,” she said. “First of all, I like to thank Her Majesty, the Queen for her…

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Shehu Sani, Senator representing Kaduna Central, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to apologize over his remarks about Nigerian Youths. While answering a question at the Commonwealth Business Forum in London on Wednesday, President Buhari had cause to talk about Nigerian youths. Mr Buhari had described the youths as illiterates who are lazy and want freebies with the notion that the nation is an oil producing country. He had said: “We have a very young population; our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. More than 60 per cent of…

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The mace that was carted away by suspected political thugs on Wednesday during Senate plenary has been recovered.The mace was brought back about 11:45 a.m. by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) in charge of operations, Habila Joshak. He was accompanied by the FCT Commissioner of Police, Sadiq Abubakar Bello, who handed the mace over to the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani Omolori. Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu who presided over the plenary said: “Concerned colleagues and Nigerians, who wanted to find out if the mace had been found,…

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has declared that the All Progressives Congress, APC, Federal Government deliberately plans to eliminate a greater percentage of the state’s population by her failure to act on the soot and its primary causes. The Governor announced that the Honourable Attorney General of Rivers State has been directed to sue the Federal Government and International Oil Companies, IOCs, operating in the state over the soot. Addressing a delegation of the United Nations, UN, at the Government House Port Harcourt on Wednesday during a high profile…

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The mace which is the symbol of authority at the Senate was this morning stolen from the Senate by suspected thugs. They entered while plenary was on going and Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu was presiding. The thugs beat the security and sergeart at Arms, went away with the mace before the very eyes of all at about 11.16am. Share on: WhatsApp

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President Muhammadu Buhari says many Nigerian youths just want to sit down and do nothing, banking on the notion that Nigerian is an oil-rich nation. Speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on Wednesday, the president said a lot of Nigerian youths have not been to school and they want everything free. “About the economy, we have a very young population, our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. This is a very conservative one,” Buhari said. “More than 60 percent of the population is below 30, a…

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former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, says Nigerians no longer take him seriously because he annulled the June 12,1993 Presidential election adjudged as the most credible election in the history of Nigeria. When asked if he would publish his biography soon to tell his story, Babangida said nobody would read it because of his past. He explained that it was true people dismissed his words because of the annulment of June 12 election. “That is right. They say, ‘he cancelled the freest election in the history but he annulled it’ but…

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A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu , says the ruling party , which took over power about three years ago , has done for the citizens what the ousted Peoples Democratic Party did not even try in the entire 16 years that it was in power. Tinubu expressed disgust that President Muhammadu Buhari has had to spend “ inordinate time ” cleaning the rot left by the PDP . According to him , APC is the direct opposite of the PDP which “has perfected the malign…

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