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The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Wednesday, said his administration is strengthening the state’s response to human trafficking and illegal migration.   Obaseki disclosed this when he received the Italian Ambassador to Nigeria, Stefano De Leo, who was on a courtesy visit at the Government House, Benin City.   The governor, who hailed […]

  Barring any last-minute change of plans, former Vice President of Nigeria and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will today, Wednesday, March 23, officially declare his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election.   Although the former Vice President and some of his key support […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday directed the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning to look for special funding for the second runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.   The president spoke when he inaugurated the Terminal Building, of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, similarly directed the Minister of the Federal Capital […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commissioned the Dangote Fertiliser Plant located in Ibeju Lekki, Lagos.   The $2.5bn plant is Africa’s largest Granulated Urea Fertiliser complex and occupies 500 hectares of land in the Lekki Free Trade Zone. It has the capacity to produce three million metric tonnes (mt) of urea yearly in its first […]

The Presidency has accused the opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), of giving itself away as being interested only in the destabilization of the country, hoping it could use that to back to power in the country.   In a statement issued Tuesday, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi […]

Twenty members of the Cross River State House of Assembly were on Monday sacked by the Federal High Court in Abuja, for defecting from the People’s Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.   Giving the judgment, Justice Taiwo Taiwo held that the lawmakers, having abandoned the political party that sponsored them to […]

  Former Anambra State governor, Willie Obiano, who was arrested on his last day in office  by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, have been granted an administrative bail, the agency has said.   The Chairman of the anti-graft commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, disclosed this in Abuja on Monday.   EFCC operatives arrested Obiano last Thursday, […]

Obviously worried by the spate of events in the economy and parts of the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State, the Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, and the Chief Economic Adviser, Prof Doyin Salami, to a meeting at the seat of power today, Monday.   A statement by Garba […]