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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has called on the universities in Nigeria to be more proactive in ensuring that their graduates are employable. He said many Nigerian graduates were being described as unemployable by some employers of labour, saying this was worrisome to his regime. Buhari stated this at the 31st Convocation of […]

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he wanted the Senate to launch the impeachment trial immediately. Trump made this known on his Twitter page late on Thursday. “So after the Democrats gave me no Due Process in the House, no lawyers, no witnesses, no nothing, they now want to tell the Senate how to run […]

The Minister of Women Affairs in Nigeria, Mrs. Pauline Tallen, says the Sex Offender Register will be fully implemented to protect girls and women from sexual abuse. Tallen gave this assurance when she took a tour of the The National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), on Friday, in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says it is important to have “Orderly, disciplined and modern police officers” because the Nigeria Police Force remains the critical pillar of Nigeria’s domestic security agenda. President Buhari said this in Kano while commissioning 624 Cadets of the Regular Course Two of the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, where he served as the […]

The Igbo Youth Assembly (IYA) worldwide has asked leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu to apologise to President Muhammadu Buhari for consistently abusing his personality and administration. The assembly also urged all Nigerians to key in and support “the laudable initiatives” of the present administration on home grown economy, food […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has picked up a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke ( SAN) upon arrival from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Adoke is being probed alongside others over $1.06billion Malabu Oil Block ( OPL 245) deal. The ex-AGF was arrested in Abu Dhabi on […]

The Senator representing Imo North Senatorial District, Benjamin Uwajumogu, is dead. Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha confirmed the death of Uwajumogu to reporters at the Senate on Wednesday. He was said to have slumped in the toilet while taking his bath and rushed to a private hospital in Apo, Abuja where he […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has administered oath of office on nine federal permanent secretaries, including the wife of Chris Ngige, minister of labour. The permanent secretaries were sworn in in two batches of five and four before the commencement of the federal executive council (FEC) meeting at the presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. The nine permanent […]

The Federal High Court in Warri, Delta State, has awarded N50m damages against the Nigerian Army for the murder of Ajayi Oladele, who was said to have died as a result of a spinal cord injury he sustained when he was arrested and beaten by some soldiers in Warri in 2017. Oladele was said to […]

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, and the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to explain why the #RevolutionNow protests convener, Omoyele Sowore, was still being detained despite the bail granted by the court. Justice Inyang Ekwo made […]

A former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, who was on December 5 convicted of N7.1bn fraud and sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment, has urged the court to grant him a post-conviction bail. Kalu, who has since been taken to the prison after conviction, said in an application on Tuesday that he is battling serious […]

The wife of Zimbabwe’s vice president was remanded in custody on Monday after appearing in court to face charges of fraud, money-laundering and attempted murder of her husband. Marry Mubaiwa, 38, who is the wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, 63, was arrested by Zimbabwe’s anti-graft commission on Saturday. She was initially detained on suspicion […]

The 35-year-old marriage between Mr. Michael Longe and his wife, Margaret, has been dissolved by an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court sitting in Ikole-Ekiti, Nigeria. ‎The President of the court, Mrs Yemisi Ojo, who dissolved the marriage yesterday, based the grounds on desertion, lack of affection and that the differences between the couples were irreconcilable. Mrs. Ojo […]

The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has asked Nigerians to chide the National Assembly if it behaves as an appendage of the executive arm of government. He said this while responding to questions from some journalists in Abuja on Monday. Mr Lawan asked Nigerians to judge the lawmakers by their actions. “I will like to appeal…judge […]

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi has divorced his Jamaican wife, Ms Chanel Chin, over irreconcilable differences. The monarch, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary Mr Alli Ibraheem, urged members of the public not to treat his ex-wife as a queen any longer. The Oluwo wished the former wife well in […]

Sources familiar with the continued incarceration of Omoyele Sowore have told Premium Times the Nigerian activist was questioned earlier last week over purported ties to Boko Haram and other outlawed groups. Terrorism allegations were the focus of a grilling session conducted with Mr Sowore by State Security Service operatives on November 12, two sources familiar […]

Kassim Afegbua, spokesman of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), has dispelled a rumour of the death of the former military ruler. Babangida, who clocked 78 in August, ruled the country from August 27, 1985 to August 26, 1993. A rumour about the demise of Babangida rippled on social media after an online news platform reported that […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday began marking for seizure properties belonging to the former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu. According to a statement issued by the agency’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, the action came following an order by a Lagos Division of the Federal High Court to wound up assets belonging to Mr […]