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The Senate has decided not to invesgitate the budgetary allocation and operations surrounding the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC). The move for a holistic probe was initiated by Senator Suleiman Kawu (APC, Kano South), who raised a point of order during plenary. Citing Order 9 and Rule 9(c) of the Senate Standing Orders (2026), Kawu presented a motion titled, “Urgent Need to Investigate the Budgetary Allocation, Operations, and Controversy surrounding the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) to safeguard the Integrity of the Senate and the Federal Government.” In his presentation, Kawu argued that the controversies surrounding…

The wife of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Hajiya Asiya El-Rufai, on Tuesday, appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to ensure that her detained husband receives what she described as fair treatment. Asiya, who was flanked by El-Rufai’s other wife, Aichatou, recalled the support she and the former governor gave the President during the 2023 presidential campaign. Speaking with journalists at her residence in Abuja on Tuesday, she said the family was not asking the President to interfere in the judicial process or halt the prosecution of the former governor. Rather, she urged Tinubu to ensure that El-Rufai enjoys his constitutional rights,…

President Bola Tinubu has named his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, as the chairman of the Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill. The committee, which was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, is tasked with the responsibility of preparing the legal framework for implementing state police across the country. This online medium reports that Tinubu, who was represented at the inauguration by Gbajabiamila, said that while the constitutional amendment carried out by the National Assembly creates the framework for state police, the National Policing Bill would provide the legal structure for its implementation. He said, “The Constitution Amendment Bill establishes…

Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, who claims to be the Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC, has questioned how the agency was captured in the national budget despite the Presidency’s insistence that it never existed. Speaking in a chat with social media activist, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, Adeyemi said he was in police detention during the period the budget was being prepared and therefore could not have participated in the budget defence process. According to him, he was invited by the Nigeria Police Force on October 27 over a petition allegedly filed by the President’s Chief of Staff,…

Former Borno State Governor and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Ali Modu Sheriff, has said former Vice President Atiku Abubakar should wait until 2031 if he intends to contest for Nigeria’s presidency, insisting that it is currently the South’s turn to produce the next president of Nigeria. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Sheriff said the North would not support Atiku’s 2027 presidential ambition because President Bola Tinubu should complete his second term. He said Nigeria’s political leaders reached an understanding on rotational leadership after the civil war to ensure regional balance in the country’s leadership. “After the civil war our leaders have…

Former chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Babachir Lawal, has said it is the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the Federation to flag the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC). CityNews reports that Lawal, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), made this known while responding to the ongoing investigations into the purported ‘fake agency’ linked to the Presidency. The controversy intensified on Monday, as the Nigeria Police Force reportedly detained the father of the PFIPC ‘fake DG’, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi. In an interview on ARISE Television, Babachir Lawal said unless there is a dereliction of duty by…

The Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajabiamila, through his lawyer, has ordered the ‘Director General’ of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), Adeniyi Adeyemi, to take down all materials, including transcripts, videos and recordings, from all platforms, linking him to murder, bribery and other criminal conduct. CityNews understands that the demand was made known in a letter obtained by Punch, dated July 6, 2026, and signed by ‘Kemi Pinheiro (SAN) for Pinheiro LP, lawyers of the Chief of Staff. The letter followed a June 25 press conference at which Adeyemi, who is facing criminal charges over his alleged…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it is on track to meet the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) July 11 deadline for the submission of its presidential and National Assembly candidates for the 2027 general elections. A senior member of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), who spoke anonymously, said the upload of candidates’ details to the INEC portal had reached an advanced stage. According to the source, the details of President Bola Tinubu and his running mate are expected to be uploaded before the middle of the week. We are progressing smoothly with the uploading of the details of…

The federal government, on Monday, held a closed-door meeting with the management of the Dangote Refinery and the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) over the price of petrol in Nigeria. CityNews understands that the meeting focused on pushing down the price of petrol in Nigeria folowing the reduced tension in the Middle East, which had earlier caused a spike in the price of petrol in Nigeria. The meeting, held at the headquarters of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) in Abuja, also has in attendance the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) and other oil and…

Former Vice President and presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has asked President Bola Tinubu to reveal to Nigerians those who stole two per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product. Atiku made the demand in statement released on Saturday by his spokesperson, Phrank Shaibu. The demand followed a revelation by the International Monetary Fund, IMF, that Nigeria omitted public expenditure equivalent to two per cent of its gross domestic product, GDP, from recent budgets. Reacting, Atiku said the IMF’s revelation has exposed what appears to be a deeply entrenched system of institutional corruption under the Bola…