Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, says President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected a high number of bills because he has to analyse such documents closely so that he will not sign stupid bills into law. Shehu, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, said this in Abuja on Monday. The President’s spokesman had accused the 8th Assembly of frustrating Buhari especially in the area of delaying the passage of the budget in 2018. When challenged with facts showing that President Buhari had…

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Money laundering charges involving the sum of $40m preferred against a cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Robert Azibaola, has been dismissed by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday. Azibaola and his company, One Plus Holdings Nigeria Limited were charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission with money laundering offences for allegedly receiving the sum of $40m from the Office of the then National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, in September 2014 for the “supply of tactical communication equipment”, a job the prosecution alleged was not…

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The Code of Conduct Bureau has said President Muhammadu Buhari,  Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, governors and other public officers whose tenure ends on May 29 must submit their end-of-tenure asset declaration forms on May 28, 2019. However, other public officers, mainly members of the outgoing 8th National Assembly, who were inaugurated on June 9, 2015 have up till June 8, 2019, a few hours to the expiration of their tenure to declare their assets. Paragraphs 1 to 16 of the Part II of the Fifth Schedule of the Nigerian Constitution list the…

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In protest of the continued detention of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenah, who had been in detention since 2015, thousands of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, also known as Shiites, blocked the roads around the National Mosque, Abuja, on Friday demanding their release. President Muhammadu Buhari had come to the mosque to observe the Juma’at prayer, as part of activities lined up for the May 29 inauguration, when the Shiites and some youths marched around the mosque. The protest started around 1pm and continued till…

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Theresa May has bowed to intense pressure from her own party and named 7 June as the day she will step aside as Conservative leader, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close. The prime minister listed a series of what she said were her government’s achievements, including tackling the deficit, reducing unemployment and boosting funding for mental health. But she admitted: “It is and will alway remain a matter of deep regret to me that I have not been able to deliver Brexit.” May’s announcement came after a meeting…

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The Federal Government has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of seeking to divide Nigeria in his old age over his comments that the Boko Haram insurgency has become an agenda to ‘Fulanise’ West Africa and Islamise Africa. The government in a statement by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, urged Obasanjo not to allow personal animosity override his love for a united Nigeria, saying it will not be out of place if he withdrew his statement and apologize to Nigerians. The government said comments imputing ethno-religious motive to…

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