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President Muhammadu Buhari has said the Nigerian government cannot afford the amount of funding needed to revive the country’s educational system. Buhari also said the competition for funds had become keener because of the recent increase in the number of tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The president spoke on Saturday at the 49th convocation ceremony of […]

The Nigeria police on Saturday justified its use of tear gas on protesters who took to the streets to mark Democracy Day by voicing their grievances against the government of the day. According to police spokesman, Mr Frank Mba, the actions of officers were in line with international best practices of dispersing violent protests. Mr […]

The Igbo Elders Council in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday accused security agencies of indiscriminately killing Igbo youths in the South-East, in the guise of fighting IPOB and ESN, two separatist groups. Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, Chairman of the group, a former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, said […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said he hopes Nigeria will be secure, prosperous and confident by the time he leaves office in 2023. He made the remark in a 30-minute interview with the Nigerian Television Authority, which aired on Friday. According to the President, he is committed to stepping down in 2023 and has no third […]

President Buhari on Thursday declared his support for the Nigeria Police Force and expressed his intolerance for all criminal activities in Lagos State and the entire country. Buhari spoke at the Police College, Ikeja, during the inauguration of security vehicles and crime-fighting equipment bought by the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for the Lagos […]

Evelyn, wife of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, aka TB Joshua, on Wednesday, said the death of her husband was an act of God. She spoke when a delegate from the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, led by the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Prince Anofiu Elegushi, paid […]

The wife of Kaduna State Governor, Hajiya Asia El-Rufai, has said no ransom should be paid to her abductors if she is kidnapped.  Addressing participants of a peace and security training organised Equal Access International (EAI) in Kaduna, the governor’s wife, who is also a lecturer at Baze University, Abuja, said she is ready to […]

Samuel Ortom, governor of Benue state, says the suspension of Twitter’s operations is a ploy to distract Nigerians from the federal government’s failure to address insecurity. In a tweet posted on Tuesday, Ortom said the ban is illegal, describing it as a suppression of the fundamental rights of Nigerians. The Benue governor also said the […]

The Federal Government on Tuesday insisted that all those violating the suspension order it placed on the operations of the micro-blogging and social media platform, Twitter would be prosecuted. The Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Umar  Gwandu,  stated this in an interview […]

Evelyn Joshua, the wife of Temitope Balogun Joshua, popularly known as T.B. Joshua, has disclosed the incident leading up to his death. Speaking with some select journalists on Sunday, June 6, she said her husband, the founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations “ended his race prayerfully.” She revealed that the televangelist spent about three […]

The envoys of the United States, United Kingdom and the European Union in Nigeria among others, have insisted that the Federal Government’s suspension of Twitter, is a violation of the fundamental human right of freedom of expression. The envoys who met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, in Abuja on Monday, urged the […]

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) says the Igbo should be allowed to secede from Nigeria if that is what the south-east wants. The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) are campaigning for the secession of the south-east from Nigeria. IPOB was formed […]

The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has said the Southeastern region is now under the control of Biafran agitators due to neglect by the Nigerian government.  In a statement on Sunday by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the group said the region is at risk of being annexed out of the country unless the […]

Operatives of the Department of State Services have summoned controversial priest, Ejike Mbaka, to Abuja for questioning. SaharaReporters gathered that the operatives visited the church to drop the letter of invitation. However, they didn’t meet the cleric at the church premises. Details of why the intelligence unit summoned the priest were not stated but it […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the family and members of The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) on the passing of their father and founder, Pastor Temitope Balogun, popularly known as TB Joshua. In a statement signed by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina on Sunday, President Buhari […]

Evelyn Joshua, wife of the founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations, Temitope Balogun Joshua, has broken the silence since the news of her husband’s death made rounds. Evelyn took to social media to express ocean-deep emotions over the loss of her husband. Amid the ban by the Federal Government on the usage of popular […]

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Saturday ordered the prosecution of Nigerians defying the government’s ban on Twitter, but did not state the specific law that is being violated. Asked which law the AGF intends to invoke to prosecute alleged offenders, his spokesperson, Umar Gwandu, told Premium Times that […]