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The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Mr Udoma Udo-Udoma Monday in Abuja said the 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework is in progress and will be submitted to the  National Assembly for consideration by October. Udo-Udoma made this declaration at a Stakeholders Consultative Forum with Civil Society Groups and organised private sector on the 2017-2019 […]

 President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has urged football administrators to take responsibility for their defeat in the interest of the immediate environment and the larger society. Saraki added that  they should not engage in the “pull-the-house-down” syndrome when things don’t go their way. ‎Saraki gave the admonition while receiving FIFA President Gianni Infantino on […]Read More

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he has been vindicated with the recent happenings concerning the 2016 Budget scandal in the National Assembly. Obasanjo made the comment on  Monday while reacting to the current budget padding accusation and counter accusation between the leadership of the House of Representatives and sacked Chairman of the House […]

Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Walid Jibrin has warned Chief Tony Anenih, his predecessor against his statement on the alleged impeachment threat against President Muhammadu Buhari. Last week, Anenih had written a letter to the chairman of PDP caretaker committee, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, urging him to […]

The former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmimin Jibrin, Monday continued his series of revelations on the fraud and corruption perpetuated by Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara. In a statement made available to journalists, the lawmaker alleged that Dogara frequently solicits for inappropriate favours from agencies and multinational companies. According […]

A former U.S. commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan, was the organizer of the July 15 military coup attempt in Turkey, sources said. General John F. Campbell was one of the top figures who organized and managed the soldiers behind the failed coup attempt in Turkey, sources […]

Via MiddleEastEye.net, Human rights group Amnesty International said on Sunday it had “credible evidence” of abuse and torture of people detained in sweeping arrests since Turkey’s 15 July attempted military coup. The London-based group said some of those being held were being “subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, in official and unofficial detention centres […]Read More

Allow me to be the first to observe who the speakers were at Day 1 of the DNC — and I say this w/o ‘prejudice’, but purely as an observation:  the speakers were… – Black – Latino – Jewish Whites: Chicago economist Austan Goolsby, Sen. Al Franken (SNL comic for 15 yrs), comedian Sarah Siliverman, […]Read More

Via The Daily Bell, How should France answer to the horror in Nice? The country is now deeply entrenched in a long-term war with few hopes of dodging future attacks. The anger of the French population is understandable. But booing a prime minister at the commemoration ceremony for the loss of innocent lives is not […]

Senate clears National Assembly of budget padding Protesting its innocence, the Senate yesterday declared that it could not have been complicit in the alleged padding of the N6.06 trillion 2016 budget by the House of Representatives when the National Assembly is the authority statutorily empowered to produce the nation’s fiscal plan. Senate Majority Leader, Ali […]

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a landlord, Gbade Metibemu, for allegedly stabbing his tenant of four months, Bright Abraham, to death on Apollo Street in the Makoko area of the state.  PUNCH Metro learnt that Metibemu attacked the 35-year-old Abia State indigene with a knife for refusing to vacate his plank apartment after […]

The leading militant group operating in the oil-rich region of southern Nigeria, the Niger Delta Avengers, on Sunday night, July 24, 2016, allegedly blew up the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, gas pipeline at Nsite Ibom Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State. In a statement, the spokesperson of the militant group, Mudoch Agbinibo, confirmed the […]