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Nigerians have not forgotten the severe damage caused the economy by the rampant abuse of public trust and grand larceny that characterized the past administration according to Mr. Laolu Akande, a Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to the President. Akande, who interacted with the press over the weekend, noted that those who are […]

Retired Lt. General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, Saturday, urged Nigerians to to up arms to defend themselves from killers across the country instead of depending on the armed forces. He said this today in a live telecast programme of the10th anniversary of the Taraba State University, Jalingo, as he also made a grave accusation against the […]

The Presidency has advised the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to stop raising false alarms in order to gain public sympathy and divert attention from its abysmal past record and failures. They should, instead, address the concerns raised about their role in the mass data harvesting at the heart of the Facebook and […]

At Nigeria’s normally manic border post of Seme, Lasisi Fanu says business has all but ground to a halt.He and other customs agents who help clear goods coming into Africa’s biggest economy from its smaller neighbor Benin say the long lines of trucks loaded with rice that used to jam the crossing have eased. The […]Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Gusau, Zamfara State, directed security agencies to improve their strategies of intelligence gathering, surveillance and accuracy in deployments, and ensure that criminal activities are brought to an end across the country. Accompanied by Governor Abdul’aziz Yari, in an interactive meeting with political leaders, traditional rulers, elders and victims of criminal […]

President Muhammadu Buhari is as committed to the freedom of the only Dapchi schoolgirl still in captivity as he was to the girls’ freedom when all 110 were in the captivity of Boko Haram terrorists. The Buhari administration will not relent in efforts to bring Leah Sharibu safely back home to her parents as it […]

The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has suspended by one month, the withdrawal of policemen attached to VIPs across the country. The suspension of the order, which was billed to be immediate, when announced on Monday, followed Idris’ meeting with the Commanders of Police Mobile Force (PMF), Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) and Special Protection Unit […]

The embittered former Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator of Amnesty Programme, Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh has dismissed the reports in the media claiming that the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) discovered $9 million cash at his residence. The […]

More than 150,000 Africans from 114 countries worldwide applied to join the 4th ‎cycle of The Tony Elumelu Foundation’s (TEF) 10-year, $100 million TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. Today, the Foundation announced the African entrepreneurs with the most innovative, high-potential business ideas. The 2018 cohort includes an additional 250 entrepreneurs to the standard selection of 1,000 – […]

Nigeria`s major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has labelled as “stage-managed” the abduction and subsequent release of the students of Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State. The rationale for the stage-managed abduction, PDP said,was to score cheap political point all in a bid to ensure that the All Progressives Congress, APC, […]

The Federal Government said a total of 106 abducted persons, comprising 104 Daphi schoolgirls, one other girl and a boy were freed by insurgents in the early hours of Wednesday. Briefing journalists in Maiduguri, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said all the 106 persons were freed unconditionally, contrary to reports in […]

Seventy-six out of the 110 abducted Dapchi schoolgirls were released, information minister Lai Mohammed, has corrected the earlier figure quoted. Lai Mohammed, made this disclosure in a statement issued on Wednesday by Segun Adeyemi,SA To Hon Minister of Information and Culture. Lai Mohammed said that the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to all security agencies […]