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   The Southwest Governors’ Forum, on Sunday said the region witnessed an “attack on our heritage” after the #EndSARS protest was hijacked by hoodlums.    Their views were captured by Rotimi Akeredolu, chairman of the Forum and governor of Ondo State. He expressed the opinion at a meeting of the governors of the region, held […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that it lacks the power to investigate or disqualify the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the governorship election in Edo state on September 19, Governor Godwin Obaseki, over alleged forgery of the University of Ibadan’s (UI) certificate.    INEC is the first respondent in a […]

The 2020 American Presidential election has left the United States so intolerably divided that the nation known as the leader of the world now risks being ridiculed by those it has always sought to lead. A fractured America is a weakened America, one that will soon become vulnerable to the attacks of its enemies.   […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday in Abuja made virtual and public presentation of its `Report of the 2019 General Election’. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commission also made public presentation of the ` Review of the 2019 General Election: Report of the Commission’s Retreats and Stakeholder Engagements’’. INEC […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State behind closed doors where he received pictorial reports on properties damaged by hoodlums during #EndSARS protests in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Sunday Aghaeze, the Personal Assistant to the President (Photography), confirmed this via pictorial reports […]

Sixty prominent Nigerians and organisations, including the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, and frontline businessman, Emeka Offor, on Saturday lost their privilege of personal police security.   The police personnel attached to them were ordered withdrawn by Police Inspector General Mohammed Adamu forthwith. […]

Efforts by Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of becoming the first African and the first woman to head the World Trade Organization (WTO) has hit a spanner after the global trade agency said the process of choosing the next head of the organization has been postponed sine die. The Geneva-based trade watchdog has […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday appealed to Nigerians yet to feel the impacts of his Administration and those who feel the government is not doing enough to bear with the government. The President made the appeal in Ilorin at a town hall meeting with the traditional rulers, youths, students, organised labour, market women and other […]

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has secured a court order freezing the accounts of 20 #EndSARS promoters till January 2021. The order was pursuant to a motion ex parte filed by the CBN before a Federal High Court. The certified true copy of the order obtained by an online medium, Peoples Gazette, showed that […]

The Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, on Friday, warned youths who have been taking part in #EndSARS protests across the country to be careful. Zulum, whose state has remained the epicentre of the activities of insurgents, told the youths that the Boko Haram crisis in the North Eastern part of the country started with protests […]

Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan,  inveiled advise to President Trump,said it is better to lose power and gain honour. Jonathan, in a Facebook post on Friday, sold this ‘philosophy’ to all leaders facing ‘challenging situations at the polls’. He wrote, “Nobody’s ambition is worth the blood of any citizen. It is better to gain honour […]

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has sworn in eight new Justices of the Supreme Court, pushing the number of Justices of the court from 12 to record 20. The CJN presided as the eight of them, in turn, took their oath of office and oath of allegiance to the Nigerian Constitution. After […]