The travel advisory issued on Monday by Abike Dabiri-Erewa asking Nigerians to postpone their trips to the US has sparked off a diplomatic row between the two countries, TheCable understands. Dabiri-Erewa, the senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs and diaspora, had alleged that the US authorities were cancelling the visas of Nigerians…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees [BOT], Walid Jubril, says the party’s leaders are ready to visit and sympathise with President Muhammadu Buhari in London. “If we are to be given the opportunity, the PDP leaders will even go to London to wish him well and sympathise with his family,”…
The only Nigerian Senator elected on the platform of the Labour Party, Ovie Omo-Agege, has decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Mr. Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central, announced his defection on Tuesday, citing leadership crisis in LP. Mr. Omo-Agege, a native Urhobo, had openly romanced with the APC caucus before his formal defection today, Tuesday….
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has sworn in Walter Onnoghen as the 17th Chief Justice of Nigeria. The swearing-in ceremony was conducted Tuesday inside the council chambers of Aso Rock presidential villa, Abuja. Mr. Osinbajo said President Muhammadu Buhari had asked him to let the new CJN know that he was assuming office at a time…
