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Peter Nwaboshi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the lawmaker representing Delta-North Senatorial District, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, for an alleged fraud of N6bn. The EFCC spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed this to our correspondent on the telephone on Monday. “The senator is currently in our custody. He was …

Melaye Spokesman of embattled senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Gideon Ayodele, has reportedly claimed that his principal, who was arrested on Monday morning, has been released. Ayodele claimed the senator was left off Immigration operatives’ hook after a stand-off that lasted about two and a …

Melaye The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, has explained why Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West was on Monday morning arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Spokesman of the Service, Mr Sunday James told the News Agency of Nigeria that Melaye was arrested by Immigration officials “based on instructions”. …

The Presidency has described the heaps of abuses on President Muhammadu Buhari as a fallout of the high expectations of Nigerians. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Malam Garba Shehu, stated this in an opinion piece on Sunday. In the piece, which is published elsewhere …

More and more support is coming the way of Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, the immediate past governor of Delta State who is gearing up to represent Delta South Senatorial District in the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly. A group, Ijaw Liberation Movement (ILM) in Ijaw land, one of …

It was another day of honour – although posthumous – for Chief Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi (SAN), who died nine years ago. Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode unveiled a 44-foot statue of the legal luminary at the ‘Liberty Park’, in Ojota to “symbolise the phenomenon that the rights activist represented in …

The former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Chief Olabode George, yesterday said former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, was sent on a slave’s errand by people using him but he didn’t use the wisdom of an elder in delivering the message. He accused Oyinlola …

The crisis between the proscribed Parliamentary Support Group and others senators deepened on Sunday, as the senior lawmakers threatened to expose their colleagues in the PSG. Some senators, who confided in The PUNCH, said contrary to the claim of the PSG members, they (PSG senators) were not working for President …

https://web.facebook.com/bukola.saraki/videos/10156365986679962/?t=0 SENATE President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Sunay visited a female Sergeant-At-Arms, Mrs. Sandra Davou who was on Wednesday injured when she and her colleagues struggled to stop thugs who invaded the Senate and stole its Mace. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Senate President, Sanni Onogu, …

  The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, affirmed on Sunday that the country’s positive growth outlook would be sustained. The Minister and the CBN Governor gave this assurance at a joint press briefing at the end of …