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…Akeredolu wants return to 1963 constitution   Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State Governor, on Wednesday, asked for state police, fiscal federalism, and a special economic status for the state in a new constitution for the country.   Sanwo-Olu made the demands at the start of a two-day Senate zonal public hearing on […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday declared that the condition of Libya will always have implications for countries in the Lake Chad Basin area, including Nigeria.   Buhari made this observation while receiving the Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, Mohammed Younis Menfi, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.   Buhari explained why Nigeria may not […]

The Federal Government has returned the £4.2m looted by a former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, to the state government, the Accountant General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris, has said. The amount was repatriated from the United Kingdom by the Federal Government. Idris disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday when he appeared before […]

A suicide bomber on Tuesday blew himself into pieces  in Ebonyi State, as he detonated the suicide vest he was wearing.   The incident happened in Afikpo town, headquarters of Afikpo local government area of the state.   The incident was said to have happened about midday.   The lone bomber had attempted to enter […]

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said that the planned rehabilitation of grazing reserves will not take place in his state. The governor made the declaration in his response to an earlier statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Publicity and Media to the President, Mallam Garba Shehu, that the federal government was planning to […]

The Presidency has faulted the Southern Governors Forum’s decision to ban open grazing and other resolutions reached at their meeting in Asaba, declaring that the action is questionable legally.   The government also said that the action of the 17 southern states amounted to “acts of politicking intended by its signatories to demonstrate power.”   […]

The death of Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff and other generals in an air crash has worsened the country’s security challenges, President The President Muhammadu Buhari has said.   General Ibrahim Attahiru, the COAS  10 other military officers died late Friday when the aircraft in which they were flying crashed close to Abuja Airport.   […]

A sociocultural association of Igbo professionals, Nzuko Umunna, says it has dragged Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police to the International Criminal Court, the United Nation Human Rights Council, as well as various High Commissions and Embassies in Nigeria, over the IGP’s shoot-at-order to police officers in the South East.   Nzuko-Umunna described as horrifying, frightening, and […]

  The National Youth Service Corps is likely on its way out as the House of Representatives is considering its discontinuation on account of several challenges bedeviling the scheme.   The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alteration Bill, 2020, which is seeking to repeal the NYSC Act, is set for its second reading […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of the country’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, and other military officers in an air crash. A military Beachcraft 350 aircraft conveying the Army Chief crashed at the Kaduna International Airport on Friday, claiming all eight souls onboard including Attahiru, the newly […]

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammed Nanono, must approve the sum of N30m each to construct a church and a shrine just as he approved the same amount to build a mosque for displaced Muslim herders, Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, declared on Friday.   Emmanuel Onwubiko, the […]

Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru has died in an air crash along with some of his aides.   A military Beachcraft 350 aircraft conveying the Army Chief crashed at the Kaduna International Airport on Friday, claiming all eight souls onboard including Attahiru,  the newly appointed Chief of Army Staff,   The  […]