President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday hinted on possible changes in the nation’s security architecture with a view to reinvigorate and reenergise it in the ongoing fight against terrorism and violent crimes in the country. The president gave the hint when he received traditional rulers from the South West zone of the country, led by the […]
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The Edo State Government has rejected a resolution by the Senate, directing the Governor of Edo State to issue a fresh proclamation for the inauguration of the Edo State House of Assembly and ordering its fresh inauguration within one week from the date of the said Resolution. This move, according to a statement signed by […]
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The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has announced a temporary suspension of its street protests. Ibrahim Musa, president of the media forum of IMN, made this known in a statement on Wednesday. The federal government had officially proscribed the activities of the group after a federal high court declared it a terrorist organisation. Musa explained that the […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned Atiku Abubakar issuing public statements as though he is the president. Atiku, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who lost to President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential poll, has consistently made comments over matters that concern the country. In a statement on Tuesday, Lanre Issa-Onilu, APC […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the federal government has set up a task force to monitor the top 20 debtors on the list of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). According to a statement released by Laolu Akande, the vice president’s spokesman, the federal government said it has renewed efforts to recover the N5 trillion […]
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Monday, said that Nigerians were appreciating the APC better under his leadership Oshiohmole who spoke when he addressed State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Buhari at the State House, Abuja added that the party had made tremendous progress. He […]
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At least twenty-two persons were killed, while many women were abducted as suspected bandits attacked Zangon-Kankara and Makera in Kankara local government area of Katsina state. A resident of Zango-Kankara told newsmen that the attacks occurred on Thursday evening. He said while 18 people were killed in Zangon, four lost their lives in Makera where […]
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Deadly violence marred the start of Afghanistan’s election season on the weekend, after President Ashraf Ghani insisted “peace is coming” to the war-torn nation. At least 20 people were killed and 50 others wounded on Sunday in an attack targeting the Kabul office of Ghani’s running mate, Amrullah Saleh. The violence came on the first […]
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Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted thunderstorms and rains over most parts of the country on Monday. NiMet’s weather outlook on Sunday in Abuja forecast thunderstorms over Kano, Maiduguri and Nguru axis of Nothern States in the morning hours leaving the rest parts in cloudy condition. It envisaged prospects of thunderstorms over Gusau, Yelwa, Sokoto […]
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A group within the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Edo State, have called on Governor Godwin Obaseki to revisit the strange fire that gutted the State Ministry of Education in June 2013, during the administration of former Governor Adams Oshiomhole. Leader of the group, Baba Franco, said the call became necessary, following the failure of […]
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