House of Reps vows to scrutinise 2024 budget
The House of Representatives has promised to scrutinise the 2024 Appropriation Bill presented to the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu thoroughly. It said it would examine the document the…
State assembly approves LG interim chairmen, deputies in Ondo
The Ondo State House of Assembly has approved the appointment of 51 nominees to head the Interim Management Committee of the 18 local government areas and local council development…
We’ll rebuild APC to win elections in Rivers
The chairman of the caretaker committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Tony Okocha, has promised to rebuild the party and place it on a…
COVID-19 funds: Reps probe water ministry over N25m borehole
The House of Representatives Public Account Committee on Tuesday queried the Federal Ministry of Water Resources for allegedly sinking a single unit of borehole at N25 million and others…
Appeal court sacks Nasarawa speaker
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has sacked the Speaker of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Ibrahim Balarabe Abdullahi, a member of the All Progressives…
PDP believed in bigwigs who couldn’t win elections– Rivers ex-chair
Ambassador Desmond Akawor is the immediate past chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State. The former Nigerian Ambassador to South Korea speaks with OLAJIDE OMOJOLOMOJU and DENNIS…
Adeleke avoiding first-year scorecard – Osun APC
The opposition All Progressives Congress in Osun State has alleged that Governor Ademola Adeleke travelled abroad ahead of the first anniversary of his administration today to avoid giving an account…
Tinubu came into power when govt almost in a coma – Ogun governor
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Sunday, said the country was almost comatose when President Bola Tinubu came into power. Abiodun disclosed this during an interview on Channels Television’s…
Profligacy: Nigerian govs’ spending spree amid economic downturn
A poem, ‘Eating tomorrow’s yam’ satirises the culture of wastefulness by humans, admonishing us that when we devour everything today, what will we eat the next day? A work by…
Reps to probe correctional service over Kuje’s inmates escape
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, tasked the Nigerian Correctional Service to give an account of inmates who escaped from the Kuje's Medium Security Custodian Centre in 2022. On Wednesday…
