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An Igbo based group, Igbo Presidency Project Movement 2023 has warned people of northern Nigeria to respect the zoning of the presidency and relinquish power to the south in 2023. The group described the calls by the Leader of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Yerima Shettima for the north to produce the president for the […]

A former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that Nigeria’s current debt situation is closer to the prevalent situation in the 70’s and 80’s that led the country and the African continent as a whole into unserviceable debts. Mr Obasanjo said this on Friday in Lagos at the first edition of the Nigerian Story organised by […]

Former Brazil international Hulk has reportedly been dating the niece of his wife following the end of their marriage. Hulk, real name Givanildo Vieira de Sousa, is currently plying his trade with Shanghai SIPG in China. The 33-year-old split from his wife Iran in July 2019 after 12 years together. The couple have three children […]

A teacher at a private primary school in Lagos, Jacinta Igboke, is being held in police custody for the murder of her estranged lover, Arinze Ani. Igboke reportedly stabbed Ani to death on Tuesday during an altercation at his shop on Old Ojo Road, Satellite Town area of the state. City Round learnt that Ani, who […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians not to let terrorists divide the country along religious lines, following execution of some Christians and Muslims by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). President Buhari said: “I am profoundly saddened and shocked by the death of innocent hostages in the hands of remorseless, godless, callous gangs […]

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has projected a high cost of doing business in 2020. Muda Yusuf, the LCCI Director-General, made the projection in the LCCI 2019 Economic Review and Outlook For 2020 made available to journalists on Thursday in Lagos. He attributed the projected high cost to poor infrastructure, multiplicity of […]

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), said on Friday that the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria,  Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat, were not released because they were being prosecuted by a state government. He said this in a statement by his spokesman, Dr. Umar Gwandu, who […]

A passenger plane carrying almost 100 people crashed seconds after takeoff in Kazakhstan on Friday, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more. Flight Z9-2100, a Fokker 100 aircraft operated by Kazakhstan-based carrier Bek Air, was scheduled to fly from Almaty, the country’s largest city, to the capital Nur-Sultan. But the plane, which was […]

The Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has been nominated and may be given the ‘Prisoner of Conscience honour award’ by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States House of Representatives. The publisher of Sahara Reporters, who was released by the Department of the State Service, DSS, by the order of […]

The Ooni of Ife, in company of dignitaries and celebrities at the second edition of Queen Moremi Ajasoro musicals on Dec. 24 in Lagos. The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has said that women can rise to be president of Nigeria because they have the strengths and potential of good leadership. The Ooni spoke at […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the Presidency’s allusion to the existence of a cabal in the villa as the best Christmas gift to Nigerians. Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu had on Wednesday, described the cabal in the Presidency as a bunch of respected Nigerians […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja declared 2019 as a very successful year for the nation, thanking Nigerians for believing in him and supporting his administration to take Nigeria to the Next Level. ‘‘We thank God. It has been a very successful year, relative to the composition of this country, both politically and ethnically,’’ […]

Members of the ‘cabal’ in the presidency are not hungry individuals and do not deserve the public criticism they get, a presidential aide has said. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, also said it was improper to refer to the president’s advisers as a ‘cabal’ and it is […]

A 58-year-old woman, Mrs Dorcas Osiebo, who stopped menstruating in 2006 without a trace of pregnancy, has been delivered of a baby boy. Dorcas, who delivered the baby on 13 Dec in Abuja, said that she was confused and excited when her Pastor’s wife, a nurse confirmed her pregnancy. “She (nurse) looked at my face […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria has reduced charges on current account and some other services. It stated that card maintenance fee on current account had been removed as the accounts already attracted account maintenance fee. The CBN clarified charges that depositors should know about their accounts with their lenders in its revised guide to charges […]

There were speculations as to why the federal government released Dasuki and Sowore, a former presidential candidate who was accused of treason. Officials of the US Embassy in Abuja were reportedly cited at the court during the resumed hearing of the fundamental rights enforcement application of Sowore in which a Federal High Court judge, Justice […]

New United States Ambassador to Nigeria Ms  Mary Leonard said on Tuesday  her country  decided to place Nigeria on its watch list due to the humanitarian situation in the country. She stated that the action was taken as part of an effort to deepen conversation on the issue. Leonard spoke in Abuja when she visited […]

An International non-governmental organisation, Global Citizen, has called on the Nigerian government, private sector and all stakeholders to intensify efforts at reducing poverty across the country, saying 89 million out of the nation’s 200 million citizens are living in extreme poverty currently. Speaking during a launch to eradicate poverty in Nigeria, the co-founder of Global […]