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President’s spokesman Ruben Abati has announced  another edition of the Presidential Media Chat. The media chat  will be broadcast live on the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and the Voice of Nigeria (VON) at 7pm on Sunday 4th May. According to Abati, during the programme, […]

For the three days that the World Economic Forum will hold in Abuja, the Federal Government has ordered the closure of all government offices and schools so as to ensure free flow of traffic during this period. The forum is scheduled to hold between 7th and 9th May. It is also believed that with the […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has constituted a committee to ensure that the schoolgirls kidnapped from Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State are rescued and reunited with their parent as soon as possible. According to a statement issued by Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pious Anyim, on Friday, the committee would be saddled with […]

A High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, threw out an application that was filed by a former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank, Erastus Akingbola, as the presiding judge, Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo, ruled that the offences listed in the proof of evidence included stealing, obtaining money by false pretences and receiving stolen […]

Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned Thursday’s bomb blast in Nyanya describing it as devastating and sad. CAN revealed its displeasure over the incidence in a statement it released on Friday, signed by Reverend Musa Asake, the association’s secretary general. “It is with shock and dismay that I received the news of last night […]

  President Goodluck Jonathan has summoned security chiefs to a special security meeting following Thursday’s bomb blast in Abuja. The ongoing meeting was made known to the public by the President’s Spokesman, Reuben Abati on his twitter page  “The meeting on-going at the Villa,” Abati tweeted. Obviously, the meeting will be to deliberate on other […]

For the first time in his eight years as governor of Lagos state, Mr. Babatunde Fashola received a dose of humiliation from civil servants, civil society groups, workers and students of the Lagos State University (LASU) as they all booed him, prevented the usual parades that characterises Workers Day celebration and prevented him from taking […]

A vehicle laden with explosives was denoted on Thursday evening ,at Zuba Park,killing 17 people and injuring many others. Zuba Park is located opposite Nyanya motor Park, where a bomb explosion orchestrated by Boko Haram, killed 74 people, penultimate week. The bomb, according to an official of the National Emergency Agency (NEMA), was detonated at […]

Former Governor of old Kwara State, Alhaji Adamu Attah, is dead. Attah, the first civilian governor of the state before it was split into Kogi and Kwara, died in his house in Abuja on Thursday at 83 after a protracted illness. He was buried in Kuroko, Okene at about 5pm according to Islamic rites witnessed […]

Secretariat of the Nigeria National Conference on Thursday refuted the news report claiming that the confab has been extended by six more weeks. Reacting to the rumor through a statement signed by AkpandemJames, the confab’s assistant secretary in charge of media and communications, the secretariat said the information is untrue, describing it as “misleading”. “The […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it is stupefied by the comments credited to National Women Leader of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kema Chikwe, where she expressed doubts about the truthfulness of the abduction of over 200 school girls from Chibok in Borno State, saying by the comments, Chikwe has simply crossed the line […]

In reaction to the abduction of 234 schoolgirls by Boko Haram gunmen at Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS),  Chibok, Borno State over two weeks ago,  hundreds of Nigerians gathered on Wednesday in Abuja in a protest march at the National Assembly, demanding that government and military do everything possible to rescue the girls. Many more […]