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The opposition People’s Democratic Party on Thursday berated President Muhammadu Buhari for boycotting a planned visit to the National Assembly today to address a joint sitting on of the house on security issues affecting the nation.   “Mr President is afraid of the obvious, he knows he has nothing to tell Nigerians on the security […]

  Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has assured Nigeria and other African countries of being able to access COVID-19 vaccines from late January through the first quarter of 2021.   This was revealed in a statement by Nigeria’s Ministry of foreign Affairs on Wednesday.   According to the statement, Okonjo-Iweala disclosed this […]

Nigeria’s Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has declared that the National Assembly lacks the power to invite President Muhammadu Buhari to brief it on the growing security challenge in the country and Federal Government’s efforts at containing it.   Malami’s spokesman, Dr. Umar Gwandu, quoted him, in a […]

  Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission,  declared on Wednesday that preparations for the 2023 general elections have started.   Yakubu made the declaration in an interview with State House correspondents  in Abuja after he took the oath of office for his second term.   He announced that INEC would work […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission has directed Mobile Network Operators to immediately halt the sale and activation of new SIM cards to allow an audit of the Subscriber Registration Database.   In a statement issued on Wednesday by the Director, Public Affairs Dr. Ikechukwu Adinde, NCC said it was necessary for operators to comply until the […]

Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a member representing Nguroje Constituency in the Taraba House of Assembly,   Bashir Mohammed.   A family source said the lawmaker was kidnapped from his house, which is located behind SSS office area of Jalingo at about 1. 30. am Wednesday by the gunmen.   Mohammed is the Chairman of the House […]

The National Executive Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress rose from its emergency meeting on Tuesday with the dissolution of all states, zonal, and national party structures.   It also extended by six months the tenure of the party’s caretaker extraordinary convention planning committee led by Governor Mai Buni.   President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice […]

Nigerian teacher Olasunkanmi Opeifa, named a Top 10 finalist for the Global Teacher Prize 2020, in partnership with UNESCO, expressed his surprise and gratitude as winner Ranjitsinh Disale from India announced he was sharing half the US$1 million prize money equally among the other Top 10 finalists. Now in its sixth year, the award established […]

Nigeria has denied the allegation, by the United States, of engaging in systematic and egregious religious freedom violations.   The United States on Monday placed the country for the first time on a religious freedom blacklist, following rising voices from Christian groups over growing insecurity.   The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo on Tuesday […]

The Nigerian government has said it would cut the price of petrol by N5, which will take the price to N162.44 per litre.   The government said this new price will take effect from Monday, 14 December 2020.   Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, announced this at the end of a meeting between […]

The Abia State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has called on the state Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, to sack his Chief of Staff, Dr Anthony Agbazuere.   The call for Agbazuere’s sack followed a viral video that showed him spraying currency notes on an Onitsha-based self-proclaimed prophet, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, who is otherwise known as […]

Amidst plans by some people to embark on the second phase of the #EndSARS protests, President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday warned that the government would deal decisively with “any act of hooliganism hiding behind peaceful protests.”   Buhari said while his administration believed in the rights of citizens to embark on peaceful protests, this must […]