The Department of State Services (DSS) has reportedly picked former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant-General Azubuike Ihejirika (rtd). Read More…

The Aisha Buhari mentioned in the bribery scandal of a former United States congressman, William Jefferson, was an impostor who was peddling influence with the name of President Muhammadu Buhari, a former chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has told PREMIUM TIMES. Read More…

President Mohammadu Buhari has reiterated his resolve to fight corruption to a standstill, vowing that all fraudulent acts in Nigeria must stop. Read More…

Niger Delta militants group under the aegis, Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF, has alleged that some senior military officers from the Yoruba and Hausa extractions are planning to overthrow the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government through a coup d’état. Read More…

At least five foreign expatriates and two Nigerians were on Wednesday kidnapped at the Idundu axis of the Calabar-Oban road by suspected militants. Read More…

“EFCC is only acting a movie scripted, produced and directed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) government of President Muhammadu Buhari just to silence me being a major opposition voice in the country.” Read More…

The Presidency has dismissed as laughable the desperate attempt by Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State to link President Buhari’s wife, Aisha, to US Congressman William Jefferson’s bribery scandal for which the American lawmaker was convicted in 2009. Read More…

President Muhammadu Buhari will announce a former Kano State Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris as the new acting Inspector General of Police. Mr. Idris is an Assistant Inspector General of Police who once led the Kano state police command. Read More…

ALUU- PARAMOUNT  ruler of Omuda, in Ikwerre Local Government Area, Rivers State, Chief Harry Okparaibea, said the butcher of 23 persons, last week, by invading cultists in Omuda, Umuechi, Umuike, Umuahunwo and other Aluu communities was a taboo. Okpraibea, Read More…

The Aisha Buhari named in the bribery scandal involving a U.S. Congressman, Williams Jefferson, is not the Aisha that is President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, has told PREMIUM TIMES. Read More…

Sources at Nigeria’s premier anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have revealed that a personal account at the Zenith Bank of Nigeria of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, was frozen in connection with over N1.2billion he took in 2014 from the disgraced National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, to prosecute his re-election as governor. Read More…

A Niger Delta group, the Niger Delta Patriotic Front (NDPF), has described  the violent agitation of Niger Delta Avengers (NDA)  as nothing but a ploy to gain personal benefits for members of the group. The NDPF made this known in a press statement issued on Sunday.       Read More…

The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) has announced that it is considering taking legal actions against former Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr.Odein Ajumogobia (SAN), and Mr. Bismarck Rewane, a Lagos-based financial analyst for exposing the group to public ridicule, following  from their sudden exit from MEND ‘s Aaron Team 2 Initiative. Read More…

In a way to persuade Nigerians that he’s fully recuperated and strong, President Muhammadu Buhari who arrived the country on Sunday after spending 10 days in London, challenged one of the State House reporters to a wrestling bout. Read More…

The Director General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Suleiman Zakari Kasauri, has said that inadequate logistics was responsible for the Federal Government’s decision to reduce the three weeks of orientation camping to two weeks. Read More…

Gamawa federal constituency in Bauchi state, has collectively disassociates self from its member Hon.Mohammed Garba Gololo in connection to allegation level against him for allegedly attempting to rape a minor in a hotel in the United States of America. Read More…

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after a successful vacation in London. Read More…

No fewer than three students of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo (RUGIPO) in Ondo State have been reportedly shot during a clash between the students and men of the police command in the town . Read More…

Whenever the military officers and leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party who looted the national wealth are exposed, invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission or charged to court, some hack writers are quick to accuse the Buhari government of political witchhunt and selective persecution. Read More…

LAWMAKING is not all com­ers’ affair, as it requires wits and intellectual prowess. But, it is unfortunate that some politicians see it as an act of ego boosting. As regards legislating for a state, some lawmakers simply make mockery of themselves during plenary. Read More…

The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), Saturday, accused Chief Ayiri Emami of re-branding, re-grouping and re-arming defunct Ex-MEND and settled militant leaders to undermine their struggle against the Federal Government in their bid to liberate the long suffering people of the region. Read More…