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For not seeking National Assembly’s approval before withdrawing $496million used for the purchase of aircraft from the United States, some senators have called for General Muhammadu Buhari’s impeachment. Section 143 of the Nigerian constitution provides for the removal of the president from office. Moving a motion on the issue on …

Ex-president, Olusegun Obasanjo has advised the people of the south-east geopolitical zone to vote out President Muhammadu Buhari in the upcoming 2019 general elections. Obasanjo added that the move was ‘in their own interest’. Speaking at a meeting of the Coalition of Nigeria movement in Awka, Anambra state on Wednesday, …

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, and many other senators have arrived at the National Hospital Abuja. The convoy arrived at the facility at 1:33pm Nigeria Time. The lawmakers are now meeting with the management of the hospital, ahead of a visit to Senator Dino Melaye’s ward. The senators …

The Senate on Wednesday adjourned its plenary in solidarity with one of their colleagues Sen. Dino Melaye who was arrested and humiliated with men of the Police Force. The decision of the Senate followed a motion moved by Senator Sam Anyanwu over the arrest of their colleagues. An yanwu had …

According to reports, the Police have denied Senate delegation access to National Hospital ward where Senator Dino Melaye is admitted after his arrest yesterday. The delegation is led by Deputy Senate Leader, Senator Bala Na’Allah. It includes Deputy Chief Whip, Senator Francis Alimikhena, Deputy Minority Leader, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha and …

Makurdi, the capital of Benue State has been brought to a standstill by protesters over the ongoing killings in the state. The protesters, DAILY POST gathered have taken over major streets of the state, calling on the federal government to come to their aide. DAILY POST reports that over 100 …

INVESTIGATIONS by Saturday Vanguard have revealed that last Wednesday’s invasion of the National Assembly was a scripted plot to force the reinstatement of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and instigate the removal of the Senator Bukola Saraki leadership of the Senate. It was learned that the conspiracy stirred by 15 senators was …

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BALARABE Musa, former Governor of Kaduna State during the Nigerian Second Republic has said without first becoming a thief it is impossible to become the President of Nigeria. Musa stated this on Friday while he playing host to Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, when the latter visited him in …

The Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Lawan Daura, has accused the Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, of running the anti-graft agency based on gossips and political interference from certain quarters and marabouts. Daura said this before the Senate ad-hoc …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused President Muhammodu Buhari of shrouding his private visit to London as official. The party said President Buhari left the country on Monday, April 9, 2018 for London and arrived his destination same day. It is instructive to note that Mr. President has not …

A presidential aspirant in the 2019 general elections and convener of #Take Nigeria Back Movement, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has promised to tackle the challenges of insecurity, poor electricity supply and decrepit infrastructure confronting the country frontally if he is elected as Nigeria’s president in 2019. Sowore, who has been going …

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was becoming an embarrassment to Nigerians, urging his handlers to desist from allowing him to speak extempore. Governor Fayose, who was reacting to the President’s claim that former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, should be blamed for the ongoing …

General Overseer of Christian Central Chapel International, Bishop Emma Gospel Isong has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to confess his sins to Nigerians and pray for forgiveness if he wants to win his second terms bid in the 2019 presidential election. Isong stated that the President has committed so many …

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday ordered the immediate disbandment of a group, Parliamentary Support Group, in the senate It is not clear if Mr Saraki, as senate president, has such constitutional powers to disband a freely formed group, especially as the constitution guarantees freedom of association. However, none …

Two weeks after Nigerian Army withdrew troops from Benue, attackers said to be clad in military fatigues stormed two communities in the north-central state shortly after sunset on Tuesday, killing at least 10 villagers and wounding multiple others, PREMIUM TiMES has learnt. Locals who provided details of the killings to …

Thursday’s plenary at the Senate was almost disrupted following a deafening uproar following a claim by Senator Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe that President Muhammadu Buhari is incompetent. Abaribe’s allegation followed an adopted order 43 which he raised in reference to the excuse which the President gave while in London that the …

The publisher of online platform, Sahara Reporter, says he does not believe in the ‘third force’ coalition midwifed by a former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo. He also condemned Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying the party was deceptive and must be removed in 2019. Mr. Sowore, who is vying …

The naming of so called PDP Looters is another dubious, unimaginative and deceptive attempt by the Buhari’s government to hoodwink Nigerians into thinking that a fight against corruption is taking place. This is exactly the same way the government is fighting Fulani herdsmen- Miyetti Allah and Boko Haram terrorism, which …

There was heated exchange between Nigeria’s communication minister, Adebayo Shittu, and a presidential aspirant, Omoyele Sowore, on a public affairs radio programme in Ibadan on Saturday. Mr Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, was in Ibadan in continuation of his campaign efforts. He arrived Lagos from the UK earlier in the …