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On behalf of all Nigerians and his family, President Muhammadu Buhari warmly felicitates with former Vice President and elder statesman, Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme (GCON) who turns 85 years on October 21, 2017. President Buhari joins all former leaders of Nigeria, professional colleagues and friends of the Ekwueme family in celebrating the octogenarian, whose life’s […]

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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Istanbul urged D-8 leaders to prioritize incentives and measures aimed at increasing trade and investments among member countries. Speaking at the ninth summit of the D-8, President Buhari said the private sector and business communities in the economic organization must be assisted with incentives to widen economic cooperation among […]

Your Excellency, Recep Tayyip Erdowan, President of the Republic of Turkey, our host, Chairman of D-8 Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government of the D-8 Organization, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the D-8 Organization, Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring greetings from the Government and people of Nigeria to you all, particularly to the Government […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed, after talks, on Thursday in Ankara to strengthen cooperation between the security agencies of both countries to counter terrorism. Speaking at a joint press conference after a tete-a-tete with his host, President Buhari said he was ‘‘very pleased’’ that the defence ministers of both countries […]

The EFCC Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu, has said that the fight against corruption is becoming tougher, urging all Nigerians, including children, to use every weapon at their disposal to fight it. Magu said this in Lagos on Friday during the sensitisation forum on the plan to launch “EFCC-Creative Youth Initiative Against Corruption (CYIAC) Corruption Busters”. […]

A trending picture on social media which showed pupils of Edgerly Memorial Girls Secondary School in Calabar being compelled by an agent of the Cross River State security outfit to pack refuse with bare hands has elicited negative reactions from residents of Calabar-South. The picture went viral on face book on Wednesday after an agent […]

A civil liberty organization, “The Say No Campaign” has lampooned President Buhari`s fight on corruption. The group in statement issued on Thursday described the current anticorruption as one sided and urged all arms of government to  expedite action to salvage the longstanding commitments of governments since the 1999 return to civil rule, and what is […]

The Katsina Police Command said it arrested three youths who staged a fake kidnap of their friend to extort a ransom of N500, 000 from his father, Alhaji Illayasu Jibiya. DSP Gambo Isah, the Katsina Command Police Relation’s Officer on Thursday in Katsina said, “Those arrested are Aminu Rahamawa, (19), Abdullahi Bature (23), and Kabiru […]

The Former National Security Adviser (NSA) col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has pleaded with the Federal High Court in Abuja to adjourn indefinitely his trial in the charges of unlawful possession of firearms and money laundering brought against him since 2015 by the Federal government.  He made the appeal in a motion on notice argued […]

Former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has advised his political party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to make the mistake of making wrong choice of National Working Committee (NWC) members at the December convention. Jonathan gave the advice when he received an aspirant for the party’s national chairmanship position, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, in his residence in […]

Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has thrown his weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari for as president for another term, saying he remains the only credible person with capacity to deliver up to 2023. Ortom expressed the view while talking with State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Buhari in the Presidential Villa, […]