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The Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari on Wednesday demanded a full retraction of a widely-circulated material distributed by Ekiti State governor, Ayo Fayose. Fayose claimed to have uncovered how Mrs. Buhari was allegedly mentioned as having transferred funds to a convicted former U.S...

At least 10 vehicles destroyed, one person died and two others injured when a tanker conveying fuel exploded at Dakatsalle village in Bebeji Local Government area of Kano state on Sunday night. According to Premium Times, witnesses say the fire, which started around 7.30 p.m., also destroyed...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has rearrested oil magnate, Jide Omokore, and will most likely slam money laundering charges on him today (Monday), Premium Times Reports.. An official briefed on the matter said the businessman would be arraigned alongside Andrew Yakubu, a former...

The embattled 'past chairman' of the Peoples Democratic Party has stormed the Wadata Plaza National Secretariat of the opposition party to take over the affairs of the party. Mr. Sheriff led his group to storm the secretariat early on Monday morning. Security operatives, however prevented from...

Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works, and Housing has said that contractors who executed federal government’s road projects over the past three years were not paid for their job. Speaking at the inaugural “Buharimeter” town hall meeting in Abuja, Thursday, Mr. Fashola said the...

President Muhamamadu Buhari's ministers are participat#ing at today’s inaugural town hall meeting tagged ‘Buharimeter’ holding in Abuja, according to the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD. Lai Mohammed (Information and Culture), Babatunde Fashola (Power, Works, and Housing), Audu Ogbeh...

The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) has claimed ministries, departments, agencies and the Nigerian Army are owing the Distribution Companies (DISCOs) N60 billion from 2015 to February. The Executive Director of ANED, Sunday Oduntan, said this on Tuesday at a news...

Femi Aribisala takes a deep analysis into the 2016 budget of 'change' as presented to the National Assembly by the Presdient, Moahmmadu Buhari. READ: When the incredible issue of a missing/counterfeited 2016 budget arose some weeks ago, I was expecting to hear from the APC that Goodluck...

Various criticisms that have greeted the proposed 2016 budget have been a serious embarrassment to President Mohammadu Buhari and as he has vowed to deal with top civil servants responsible for smuggling frivolous allocations into the budget, a senior administration official within the...

Seven months after taking over the government, the Muhammadu Buhari administration has succeeded in achieving only one out of the 222 campaign promises made to Nigerians, according to a report by Buharimetre, a civil society monitoring report tracking the implementation of the president’s...