Chief Richard Akinjide, ex-Justice Minister, of 12 2/3 fame, dies at 88

  Nigeria’s Second Republic Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide, is dead.  He was 88. He died in his Ibadan, Oyo State, home early today. Mr Toye Akinrilola, spokesman of the UCH, said his body was brought to the morgue at about 2 am today. Akinjide, a reputable lawyer and senior advocate, […]

Abba Kyari was Nigeria’s de facto President – Yoruba leader, Prof Akintoye explodes

The Yoruba World Congress (YWC) on Monday rubbished the several empathies for Abba Kyari, late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. The body labeled Kyari as Nigeria’s de facto President and suggested that he was the one controlling the nation’s affairs. YWC President, Prof. Banji Akintoye, in a statement issued by Adeyemi Adeleye, the […]

Presidency asks journalists who attended Abba Kyari’s burial to self-isolate

Journalists who attended the burial ceremony of President Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days by the Presidency. In a statement released by the Deputy Director of Information in the State House Attah Esa on Sunday April 19, the affected journalists were told that the directive was a […]

Breaking News: Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari, dies from coronavirus

By New Nigerian Politics NNP has been informed that the Chief of Staff to President Buhari, Mallam Abba Kyari has died. He died in Lagos on April 17 after contracting the coronavirus. In all likelihood, Kyari would have been rushed to an European hospital for first-class treatment from the deadly virus had international borders and […]

FG excludes Lagos, Borno, Delta from cash transfer as North West gets biggest share

  Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi (left); Attorney General/Commissioner for Justice, Moyo Onigbanjo; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso; Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship, Beecroft, Apapa, Commodore Ibrahim Aliyu Shettima; Commander, 9 brigade, Ikeja Army Cantonment, Brigadier General, Etsu Ndagi; Commander, 651 Base Services Group, Nigerian Air Force Base, […]

We can’t afford lockdown, say Northern Govs

Not entire country under lockdown – Presidency • NMA, NARD, Nurses react • Northern Govs are looking for excuses – NEF • We don’t entertain governors’ fears at all – ACF • North trying to drag South back – Afenifere By Dapo Akinrefon, Chioma Obinna, Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Mary-Therese Nanlong & Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo ABUJA-Governors in the […]

Presidential pardon: Our father was never guilty, says Professor Ambrose Alli’s son

Late Prof. Ambrose Alli ———————————– Enahoro’s family, Obaseki laud move By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – THE News of the presidential pardon granted to foremost Nationalists, late Chief Anthony Enahoro and former governor of old Bendel State (now Edo and Delta), late Professor Ambrose Alli have been received with mixed feelings from the families of […]

Coronavirus: Pastor Adeboye gives fresh prophecy

he General overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye has said God told him that the world will be like a ‘child in convulsion’ this year. Adeboye, who made this known in a message titled “A New Beginning,’ during a live broadcast on Sunday, assured that the coronavirus pandemic would […]

Omoyele Sowore alleges plot to re-arrest him over coronavirus report

Rights activist and publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, has accused the Nigerian government of plotting to detain him over his report on the Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, testing positive for COVID-19. In a message posted on his Facebook page on Thursday, Sowore said his lawyers had informed him of a delegation sent to the […]

Maltreatment of Nigerians in China: Why I like Sani Abacha – Fani-Kayode

Abacha and Fani-Kayode …………….. Critic, Femi Fani-Kayode has revealed reason he liked late Nigeria’s despotic leader, Gen. Sani Abacha, in view of the maltreatment of Nigerians in China. He said he liked the despotic leader because he would have acted and sent Chinese out of the country in the midst of alleged inhuman treatment meted […]

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