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President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after 10 working days holiday in London. The presidential plane conveying Buhari and few of his aides landed at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at 6.38p.m. Mr Buhari was received at the airport by Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, the Secretary to the […]

The 2019 general elections is less than 184 days away. How prepared are you to perform your civic duty? The first step to exercising your franchise in the forthcoming polls is to sign up for voters registration at any of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) centres close to you in order to be issued a […]

The U.S. Embassy has said the suspended consular services in Abuja may resume after the Eid-el-Kabir holidays. The embassy stated this in an updated information on its website accessed by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja. The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared August 21 and 22 as public holidays to […]

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state on Wednesday stated that he is under pressure to run for president in 2019. He stated this while addressing different associations of students and youths as well as resident communities who paid him a solidarity visit. He said “I have been receiving advices and encouragement from our leaders, peoples […]

The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, August 21 and Wednesday, August 22 as public holidays to celebrate the 2018 Eid-el-Kabir. The Minister of Interior, Retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, made the declaration on Thursday in Abuja in a statement issued by Dr. Mohammed Umar, the Permanent Secretary at the ministry. While wishing Nigerians a happy Eid-el-Kabir […]

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has said that he is considering running against President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential election billed for February, 2019. The former governor of Kwara state said he can make the change that Nigeria and Nigerians desire. He disclosed this in an interview with Bloomberg. “I am consulting and actively considering […]

The Presidency has described reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has extended his ongoing 10-day vacation in London as “fake”. The official twitter handle of the presidency @NGRPresident, late Tuesday night, dismissed the report, saying it is an old story which was first circulated during the president’s vacation in Feb. 2017. The presidency enjoined Nigerians to […]

The All Progressives Congress, APC has disclosed that the party is working with some senators from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in its quest to remove the president of the senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki. This was disclosed in a statement by its Acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yekini Nabena. “As a Party, we don’t believe […]

Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve center, is the third worst city to live in among 140 cities worldwide. The revelation is according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU’s 2018 ranking of the world’s most liveable cities. The city was ranked 138th of the 140 countries ranked by the EIU. With a relatively low score of 38.5 […]

The country’s debt profile now stands at N22.38tn, the Debt Management Office has said. At a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, the Debt Management Office said the country’s debt stood at N22.38tn as of June 30. It also disclosed that the nation’s debt profile rose by 3.01 per cent in the last six months. […]

The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, says it has been difficult for an Igbo to become president of Nigeria because the people have a knack to drag down their rising leaders. According to a report by The Punch newspaper, the governor stated this in an interview with journalists on Sunday at the Government House, Owerri. […]

Senate President Bukola Saraki visited the hilltop mansion of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, on Monday. Accompanied by some of his associates, the nation’s number three citizen went into a meeting with the elder statesman. At the end of the meeting, Saraki told journalists he was in Abeokuta to see Obasanjo […]

The blue light from digital devices like smartphones could accelerate blindness, researchers found. According to a research by the University of Toledo in the U.S., exposure to blue light continuously might cause poisonous molecules to be generated in the eye’s light-sensitive cells and lead to macular degeneration. Reaserachers said as one of the leading causes […]

As previously rumored, the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 smartphone was unveiled in Brooklyn, New York, last week Thursday, and the device will be available in stores on 24 August 2018. Curiously though, no information is available on Galaxy Note 9 Plus, suggesting that Samsung might be doing away with the “Plus” series. Compared to the […]