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Ahead of the November 2, 2019 governorship election, incumbent Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello is set to dump his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), for the Accord party, amid the growing uncertainty that beclouds his second term ambition, following caustic criticisms from APC bigwigs and other stakeholders that his first term as governor has […]

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, and his party has threatened to pursue the imprisonment of the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, by filing contempt of court proceedings following INEC’s alleged refusal to allow access to electoral materials used in […]

Following intelligence report of imminent attacks on some communities in embattled Kajuru local government, the Kaduna state government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the area. There is fear of a fresh crisis in Kasuwan Magani community, one of the crisis-prone areas in the council. The spokesman of the state government, Samuel Aruwan, quoted the […]

The Nigerian Army has named Brig.-Gen. S. Ibrahim from Nigerian Army University Biu, as the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in a new posting released on Friday. A statement releasing the redeployment and signed by Col. Sagir Musa, the army spokesman said Ibrahim takes over from Major.-Gen. S.Z. Kazaure. Musa said Kazaure […]

Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari will dissolve the Federal Executive Council on May 22, 2019. The minister dismissed as fake news, information that the cabinet has already been dissolved, saying the valedictory session will hold on May 22. President Buhari swore in the 36 ministers on 11 […]

In the latest in a string of such attacks, pirates off Nigeria’s oil-rich south have stormed a small oil tanker, kidnapping six sailors, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said on Thursday. The Apecus, a Palau-flagged petroleum products tanker of 3,100 deadweight tons, was attacked while the vessel was anchored off Bonny Island, south of the […]

After a hectic official engagement, President Muhammadu Buhari was scheduled to jet out of the country to London, for a private visit; the 11th time in four years. Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said in a statement, Thursday that President Buhari would leave Nigeria after a visit to Maiduguri, the Borno capital […]

The issue of the zone that would produce the Speaker of the Ninth House of Representatives has continued to generate heat, especially among lawmakers from the South East zone. Representative of Ideato South/North Federal constituency in Imo State, Austin Chukwukere, has said equity and fairness demand that the South East should produce the next Speaker […]

A day after inviting the anger of stakeholders who decried brain drain in the health sector, Labor and Employment Minister, Dr. Chris Ngige, has double-down on his provocative comments that doctors who want to relocate to other countries in search of greener pastures are free to do so, claiming that Nigeria has 350,000 medical doctors, […]

After the respite of the Easter holiday, traffic jam, the feared menace on Lagos roads, was at its height yesterday during President Muhammadu Buhari’s one-day official visit to Lagos state to commission some projects. Although the Lagos State Ministry of Information and Strategy had appealed to motorists to bear with the government as some roads […]

In spite of an appalling doctor-patient ratio, Nigeria’s labour minister said he is not worried about how medical doctors are leaving the country in droves. Chris Ngige, himself a medical doctor, compared the brain drain to the exportation of surplus products. “I’m not worried,” Chris Ngige said on Channels Television’s breakfast show Sunrise Daily. “We […]

The Senate on Wednesday stood down the consideration of the 2019 budget report due to the absence of the Chairman of its Committee on Appropriation, Sen. Danjuma Goje. The chairman, who was billed to present his committee’s report, according to the Order Paper, was not available while the Deputy Chairman, Sen. Sunny Ogorji, was also […]