President Muhammadu Buhari said the combined efforts of defectors and their backers in the opposition will not distract his administration from the good work it is doing for the benefit and development of Nigeria. President Buhari, who spoke in Daura on Thursday stressed that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has the full understanding of
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has ordered the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai, to pay N11million as damages for the breach of fundamental rights of 11 Gombe State indigenes illegally detained by officers of the Nigerian Army. This followed a fundamental right enforcement suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/777/2018, which the Applicants
A Non-governmental organization, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has accused the current Director General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Alhaji Ishaq Modibbo Kawu of being a ‘religious and fanatical enforcer of pro-Buhari’s sentiments’ in public and private broadcasting. HURIWA, iIn a statement signed by the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the
The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to call Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) to order. MBF said this in reaction to threat to Senate President, Bukola Saraki by an official of association. MACBAN Coordinator in Benue State, Alhaji Garus Gololo, had stated that Saraki would be forced out of office
President Muhammadu Buhari is reportedly under pressure to reinstate the sacked Department of State Service (DSS) Director-General, Lawal Daura. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, who was in acting capacity while Buhari was in London, fired Daura following the siege at the National Assembly by DSS operatives. Sources had told DAILY POST that there was pressure from
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of leaking its letters to the commission, to the media, the latest being the its proposed timetable for primary elections and elective conventions. In an August 17 letter to INEC, APC proposed holding its governorship primary elections on Monday September 24 and
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has set-up a committee to resolve the issues that triggered the demolition of the Ayefele Music House. Ajimobi set up the committee during a meeting with the gospel musician, Yinka Ayefele in his office on Thursday in Ibadan. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that Ayefele in the company
ACTING President Yemi Osinbajo has described the current political happenings in Nigeria as a battle between the good and bad elements whose aim was to continue suffocating the nation by milking it dry. He said the Federal Government “would not compromise” in the ongoing war against corruption and protection of national interest. Mr Osibanjo made
The acting Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS), Matthew Seiyefa, says the service is reviewing all cases of alleged unlawful detentions and human rights abuses by the service. The acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, appointed Mr Seiyefa after sacking the former Director-General, Lawal Daura, for unauthorised deployment of operatives of the service to lay siege
The ruling All Progressives Congress has launched a scathing attack on the senate president, Bukola Saraki, accusing him of serial crimes and urging senators to do all they could to sack him. The party has been loud in its call for Mr Saraki’s removal since his defection last week to the PDP. It insists the