Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the immediate family, friends, professional colleagues and political allies of elder statesman and pro-democracy activist, Tunji Braithwaite, who passed away on Monday. The President believes the passing away of the lawyer, author and politician came at a time that his wisdom, intellectual depth, vast knowledge and experience were […]
Continue ReadingThe All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state on Monday said Governor Ayodele Fayose’s conducts were threats to national security.It said the governor’s recent utterances and actions suggest acts of sabotage targeted at rendering national institutions ineffective to perform their statutory roles for effective government in a federal set-up. The State Publicity Secretary of the […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government has said it needs about N25 billion to construct perimeter and operational fences across the 22 airports operated by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). The sum will take care of the over 500 kilometre landmass across the 22 airports . General Manager, Corporate Communications, FAAN, Mr. Yakubu Dati , who […]
Continue ReadingBY FEMI ARIBISALA Most Christians are unaware that Easter is a pagan festival surreptitiously merged with Christianity. Easter is not a Christian holiday. The word Easter is not even scriptural; it does not exist in true translations of the bible. Easter was smuggled into the King James Bible in Acts 12:4, where it was substituted […]
Continue ReadingDavid Lawan, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, has revealed that the Federal Government has commenced the reconstruction of schools and police stations destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents in the North East. Mr. Lawan made this known on Sunday in Hong, Adamawa, during the graduation of 500 students trained by Buba Industrial Village. The training […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigeria Army on Sunday confirmed the abduction of its serving senior officer, Col. Samaila Inusa, in Kaduna. In a statement, signed by Col Usman Abdul, Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 1 Division, said that Inusa was a serving officer at the Nigerian Army School of Infantry in Jaji, Kaduna. It said his abductors kidnapped him […]
Continue ReadingThe Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media, Garba Shehu, on Sunday, disclosed that the presidency will soon begin to hold town hall meetings with Nigerians. According to him, government decided to embark on such meetings because it has realised the importance of information communication to the people at the grassroots. “I […]
Continue ReadingPresident Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday reassured Nigerians that mass killings of innocent Nigerians, abductions and other criminal atrocities would soon become history in the country. The president made the pledge in his Easter message to the nation, Stating that his administration was determined to achieve peace and security across the nation by ending the avoidable conflicts and […]
Continue ReadingThe West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Saturday identified examination malpractice as a major challenge militating against its operations in its 64 years of existence. The council’s Head of Test Administration, Mrs Frances Iweha-Onukwu, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. According to her, the scourge is a […]
Continue ReadingThe national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, yesterday, lambast Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of State for Petroleum resources, for telling Nigerians that he “was not trained as a magician”. Tinubu, wondered why a public servant would talk down on those he was meant to serve, charging: “Kachikwu’s flippancy was out-of-line. He was basically telling […]
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