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The former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Bola Tinubu has said that no matter the rumours making the rounds, he remains on good terms with, and loyal to the course of President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu made the revelation on Tuesday while speaking with journalists at the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday in Abuja that his administration would handle the issue of subsidies on petroleum products with care. Speaking after receiving a briefing from the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and other agencies in the oil sector, President Buhari said that he would carefully review all the […]

96 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Calibri;} The Presidency on Monday afternoon named a list of replacements for the sacked service chiefs who were relieved of their duties with immediate effect same […]Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday afternoon sacked the Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, the Chief of Army staff, the Chief of Naval Staff and the Chief of the Air Staff. Their sack is with immediate effect. Though the affected service chiefs have been replaced, government officials said their identities would be made known […]

There is no inkling that the leadership crisis in the National Assembly would be resolved soon as the bad blood among aggrieved members against Senate President Bukola Saraki has continued almost unabated. On Sunday, the Senator representing Zamfara Central Senatorial District, Kabir Marafa, declared that Saraki does not have any moral or constitutional right to […]

Pre-empting a protest by some groups sympathetic to the 22 sacked local council chairmen in Rivers State, the state Police Command has warned that it would not tolerate any attempt to puncture the peace in the state through any act of violence. The council chairmen were removed by the judgement of a Federal High Court […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday asked Nigerians to expect a shocking revelation from the party about the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Aljhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statement, said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of distorted the facts about the source of the $2.1 billion […]

Though Nigerians see pay cut by politicians and governors as gratifying enough as the country faces serious economic challenges, the Governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, on Sunday declared that this was not the solution to the problem. Just days ago when President Muhammadu Buhari bailed out state governors with funds to pay salary arrears, […]

A major attack on the office of the State Security Service (SSS) in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, was averted on Saturday, but the suicide bomber detonated the explosives close to the office of the secret security agents killing some residents and injuring others. The incident happened in front of Elkanemi College, opposite SSS office […]

Chief Arthur Okorie Okowa, the father of the Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, is a retired principal. Pa Okowa, who leads Delta North Justices of Peace, JP, in this exclusive interview spoke on how his son started his political career and emerged as governor. He also spoke on the dwindling standard of education in […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday said what Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu interpreted as the worsening cases of Boko Haram attacks under the current administration are actually the desperate pangs of a dying monster. Ekweremadu had on Thursday decried the rising spate of Boko Haram attacks in some states in the federation saying […]