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Aisha Buhari: Stop Looking At Wrong Things By Omolola Martins
Less than 3 months into the new administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the much anticipated wind of change can be…
Tribunal begins in Abia after burning down of INEC office
The governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Umuahia on Monday, commenced hearing of the petition against the declaration of Dr.…
Military played neutral role during elections – Maj. Gen Yusuf
The out-going General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Enugu, Major General Suleiman Yusuf, has said that the military…
Three David Mark witnesses quit at tribunal
Three of eight witnesses called by David Mark in defense of the petition filed against him by Daniel Onjeh of…
I’ll identify with only positive people, Obasanjo says
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday stated that he will only identify with positive people, while reiterating that his decision…
Boko Haram: Seven new born babies at Nigerian refugee camps
Seven new births were recorded at the Mubi transit camp of the Nigerian returnees from the Republic of Cameroun as…
Place Nasarawa under security surveillance, Maku tells Buhari
Former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to place Nasarawa under special security surveillance to…
Ugbo, only Yoruba town with huge crude oil deposits
The Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom, Oba Fredrick Akinruntan, says his community remains the only Yoruba town blessed with huge deposits…
Ooni of Ife to be formally announced dead on Wednesday
The Obawara of Iwara-Ife, Oba Layi Adereti ,on Monday said the official proclamation of the demise of Ooni of Ife,…
Collect bribe, face wrath of the law – Taskforce Boss
Kazeem Ugbodaga The new Chairman, Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, Olubukola Abe has vowed to…
Nigeria to conduct census in 2016, spend N273 billion
Nigeria has concluded plans to conduct a national population census in 2016, the National Population Commission chairman, Eze Duru Iheoma…
Harmonise biometric data, Buhari charges INEC, FRSC, NPC, others
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja charged government agencies to harmonize the collection and usage of biometric data in the…
3-year old, two others murdered over bitter leaf in Edo
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Three persons, including a three year old boy, were on Sunday evening murdered at Ibillo, Akoko Edo local…
Nigerian Army vows to punish soldiers for maltreating robber
The Nigerian Army said on Monday that it will punish soldiers involved in maltreatment of an armed robbery suspect in…
Buhari queries diversion of $1billion railway loan
President Muhammed Buhari Monday in Abuja called for an explanation from the Ministry of Finance on the foreign loans obtained…
Sagay heads advisory committee on War Against Corruption
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a Presidential advisory committee against Corruption headed by Professor Itse Sagay, a prominent professor of…
Buhari and the enthronement of meritocracy
By Ade Fayosokanmi If there was any doubt that the inauguration as Nigeria’s fifth democratically elected president, Muhammadu Buhari, a…
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Buhari congratulates Nigeria’s special athletes
President Muhammadu Buhari extends hearty congratulations to Nigeria’s team at the just concluded Special Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.…
Wike fires Accountant-General of Rivers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has fired the state Accountant-General Ngozi Y.Abu with immediate effect. In…
Bayelsa: Mass defection hits PDP as Alaibe, ex-deputy governors defect
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa state appears to be in deep trouble following the planned…
Mike Adenuga donates N500m to Bayelsa flood victims
The chairman of Globacom, Nigeria’s leading telecommunication outfit, Mike Adenuga Jr is not a man who likes to blow his…
2012 flood: We got N535 million, not N15 billion – Bayelsa State
Ayorinde Oluokun The Bayelsa State Post Management Committee, has described as lies the allegation by the All Progressives Congress (APC),…
OAU Post-UTME: Onyenachi Nze bags highest score as 10,293 fail
Onyenachi Nze bagged the highest score in the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun…
Ogun police arrest nurse for stealing baby
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Nemesis caught up with a nurse, Titilayo Adebola on Friday when she was arrested at Arogun village by…
Fake ‘Assistant Editor’ of The News arrested in Abeokuta
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta A man, identified as Segun Odofin, who has been parading himself as the Assistant Editor of The News…
Slain Soldiers: JTF nabs 6 pirates in Bayelsa – Spokesman
The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, has arrested six suspected pirates who attacked and killed four of…
Jonathan pays secret visit to Buhari at Aso Villa
President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, met secretly last Thursday, a day before Buhari also met with former…
I do not influence who EFCC, others probe, Buhari tells PDP Senators
The Presidency has debunked the allegation by members of the PDP Senate Caucus that the present administration is being selective…
Wike spent N5bn to slander Buhari, says APC
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday launched a blistering attack on…
S.African medical technician invents device to punish rapists
“If only I had teeth down there,” was how a rape victim narrated her ordeal to a South African medical…