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Welcome to our live blog of the investigative hearing being held by the Senate Committee on Finance into the alleged ...

Atiku joined the party on Sunday. The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Yola on Monday formally received former Vice President, ...

Service emphasises importance of including fire safety designs in new buildings The Federal Fire Service is to embark on a ...

The committee also fixed a date for the public hearing. The Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, failed to answer many of ...

The Nigerian Government has accused western nations of double standards over a new law banning same-sex marriages. President Goodluck Jonathan ...

Find below a press statement personally signed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar announcing his resignation from the ruling People's ...

The party chairman again promised to reconcile aggrieved members. The National Chairman of the People Democratic Party, PDP, Ahmed Mu’azu, ...

The Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, on Saturday lambasted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP-led federal government saying the 14 years ...

They accused the PDP of refusing to address the observations and complaints of its founding members. The chairmen of all ...

Police reform will be a public-private effort President Goodluck Jonathan said that the Federal Government would spend N1.5 trillion in ...

Last May a police officer in northern Nigeria was brutally slaughtered by militiamen, but to this day no one has ...

The party said its critics make it appear as though past budgets benefitted Nigerians. The All Progressives Congress, APC, has ...

Agency says rainy season has not begun. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NiMet, said on Saturday that the rain which fell ...

Some of the villages were burned to the ground. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says nearly 6,000 people have fled ...

Residents expressed mixed feelings about the rain. Residents of Abuja on Friday evening expressed mixed feelings as Nigeria’s capital city ...

A mass housing estate is being built in Wasa, Abuja. The Executive Council of the Federation, FEC, during its one ...

‘With the exit of the erstwhile Chairman who is a loyal ally of Mr. President, the battle this time around, ...

A meeting between all parties went rowdy on Tuesday. The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has vowed to continue ...

New party leadership wants comprehensive inventory of party asset nationwide The National Working Committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Grand ...

37 reps defected from PDP to APC The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday, received a boost in its quest to ...

These are the six documents Obasanjo sent to Jonathan and the PDP to nail ex-political ally, Buruji Kashamu. In a ...

President Jonathan seems to be making a clear statement of loyalty, authority and legality by this decision to replace the ...

The governors accuse the Federal Government of financial recklessness and abuse of the Constitution. The governors of the 36 states ...

May woo Amaechi, Kwankwaso, others back to PDP. President Goodluck Jonathan and governors elected on the platform of the Peoples ...

The FEC held its first meeting in 2014 on Wednesday The vandalism of gas pipelines in the Niger Delta is ...