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Etang Umoyo, senator who represented Akwa Ibom South District during aborted Third Republic in Nigeria, has died at 71. The former lawmaker, who was said to be ill for some time, died on Saturday February 13, as announced by his family…

Former minister of commerce and industry, Jubril Martins-Kuye, has reportedly died on Sunday morning at 78. According to PremiumTimes, Martins-Kuye died at his Ago-Iwoye residence in Ogun State but cause of his death was yet unknown.…

Elisha Ishaku Abbo, Senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial district has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Senate President, Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan made his deflection known in an announcement on…

A bill seeking to extend the federal government’s free and compulsory education programme from the Junior Secondary School 3 to the Senior Secondary School 3 has passed first reading on the floor of the Senate. The bill was sponsored…

A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed by former lawmaker representing Kogi West district, Senator Dino Melaye, seeking to stop deliberations on the Control of Infectious Diseases Bill before the House of…

The late Senator Ignatius Longjan Senator Ignatius Longjan, the lawmaker representing Plateau South Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly is dead. Until his death, the 75-year-old lawmaker was a member of the…

Yesterday evening, Tragedy struck in Iworoko town, few minutes drive from Ado- Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Saturday night after an articulated vehicle rammed into a market located at the centre of the town. Reports say that the…

US Senator and former presidential candidate, John McCain, has died at age 81 after a year long battle with brain cancer,  just a few days after it was announced that he had decided to stop medical treatment. McCain, a former Vietnam…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday filed charges at an Ikeja high court against Albert Bassey, a serving senator, for allegedly receiving 12 cars as bribes worth N254 million. Bassey, 45, who is…

Democratic Senator, Jeff Woodburn has been arrested for domestic violence charges after he allegedly bit a woman on multiple occasions and forced his way into her locked home. The New Hampshire lawmaker from Whitefield, U.S., was…

He is better known as a dancing senator, having turned dancing to his past time shortly after he became a senator more than a year ago after the death of his brother, Senator Isiaka Adeleke aka Serubawon. Since then, Senator Demola…

Dino Melaye, Senator representing Kogi West in the Nigerian senate, has denied fleeing Nigeria shortly after the Nigerian Police threatened to declare him wanted and place him on Interpol watchlist if he fails to appear in court on March…

Toni Iwobi, a Nigerian IT entrepreneur who has spent 38 years in Italy, has been elected as the first black senator in the European country. An Italian man of Nigerian origin, who is the chief immigration spokesman for the far-right League…

Senator Shehu Sani took to his twitter handle to react to the Federal government's decision to start monitoring hate speeches of certain Nigerians on social media. The Federal Government on Thursday January 25th, directed security…