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President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Abuja on Tuesday night, a day ahead of schedule. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president was initially scheduled to return to Abuja from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday at about 1.30p.m. However, the presidential aircraft carrying the president, his aides and some members […]

The National Bureau of Statistics said Nigeria’s foreign debt stood at $25.27 billion as at December 31, 2018. The NBS said this in “Nigerian Domestic and Foreign Debt data” for 2018 fourth quarter posted on its website. The bureau said further disaggregation of Nigeria’s foreign debt showed that 11.01 billion dollars of the debt was […]

The words in the Nigerian national anthem: “The labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain” have been aptly demonstrated by the response of Nigerians to the plight of former national team captain and coach, Christian Chukwu, exemplified by the offer by billionaire businessman and Chairman of Forte Plc, Chief Femi Otedola, to […]

On Tuesday, April 9, 2019, Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode inaugurated a 20-man Transition Committee, ahead of the May 29, 2019 Governorship Inauguration Ceremony of his successor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and charged them with clearly defined mandates. The committee is saddled with, among other things, the onerous responsibility for ensuring a smooth transition of power […]

Atiku Abubakar, the defeated presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party is not solely casting his lot on his legal challenge of President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the 23 February election as he has enlisted the assistance of two high-powered Washington, DC lawyers. In addition, he has set up what he called a “US Situation […]

The Enugu State government and the management of Rangers International Football Club of Enugu have both discounted reports making the rounds in social media platforms that the state government and the club abandoned their Technical Director, Christian Chukwu, saying the rumour was not only untrue, but suggestions that Christian Chukwu was “a destitute old man […]

The World Bank has categorized Nigeria among economies that have not recorded improved performance since 1995. The bank stated this in the latest edition of its Africa’s Pulse released yesterday. Nigeria was categorized among Angola, South Africa and 16 other countries. The report compared the average annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates of the […]

Many residents were forced to stay indoors after Boko Haram on Tuesday evening launched a daring attack on Damaturu, the Yobe State capital; forcing the town into a lockdown as vehicles were not allowed in or out of the town. Some residents of Maisandari were quoted as saying the attackers came through the eastern part […]

The Supreme Court said yesterday that it remains a united institution, denying media reports that the resignation of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, had ripped it apart.“It is necessary to state categorically clear that the publication is false and misleading in its entirety. There is no iota of truth in the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the recent spate of sporadic violence across the nation which has led to the death of over 100 people and decried the on-going culture of “an eye for an eye” that has fueled a number of attacks and reprisal attacks, within some communities. The president also appealed to Nigerians to […]

Passersby, school children and motorists ran helter-skelter for their lives yesterday after police in Enugu used tear gas to disperse some ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), who besieged the INEC headquarters and blocked the entrance and exit to the building to protest the non-payment of their allowances for the just concluded […]

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has alleged that the activities of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) during the announcement of election results were designed to scuttle democracy in the state, saying: “it is clear that the Resident Electoral Commissioner was here on a mission to frustrate my efforts but he has only succeeded in […]