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President Muhammadu Buhari says he is “distressed and depressed” by the ethno-religious killings in the country, appealing to Nigerians to learn to live together in peace and harmony. The president said this when he received leaders of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), led by Dachollom Datiri at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday. […]

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni came under fire Monday for saying he had not stepped into the kitchen since he got married, and that it was not a man’s role to cook. “The head of the home never goes into the kitchen. It is now 45 years with Mama Janet. I have never stepped into the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has quietly appointed his son-in-law as the head of Nigeria’s Border Communities Development Agency. Junaid Abdullahi, a captain, assumed duties at the agency on a low-key on October 18. He was married to Zulaihat, Mr Buhari’s first daughter who passed away in 2012 from childbirth complications. She was 40. Mr Abdullahi took […]

There was tension at the departure lounge of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja yesterday, over the poor state of the communication system. Many passengers travelling out of Abuja protested the situation saying they could not hear the public announcements including of scheduled flights. Premium Times gathered that some passengers missed their flights yesterday on […]

Former Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke is to be extradited from Britain, The Nation learnt yesterday. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to approach Attorney-General of the Federation Abubakar Malami( SAN) this week with a request to file charges against Mrs Alison-Madueke based on its findings. As part of its investigation, the EFCC has traced […]

The unions in the country’s aviation sector have declared their intentions to partake in the indefinite strike scheduled to begin on November 6. The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) had announced the strike as a means to press home the demands for an upward review of minimum wage from N18,000 to N30,000. In a notice on […]

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to attend to the needs of Nigerians instead of donating money to other countries. The former vice president said that Nigeria’s resources should be used for the country and its people and not as donations to others. He said that […]

Chief Debe Sylvester Odumegwu-Ojukwu, first son of the late Head of State of the defunct Republic of Biafra, Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, is dead. A member of the family, who confirmed the incident, said he slumped, and lost consciousness last Thursday. The late Ojukwu did not regain consciousness until he was pronounced dead on Friday at […]

Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has said she cannot confirm the death of her late husband’s son, Debe Ojukwu. When contacted on the telephone, Ambassador Ojukwu told Punch correspondent that it was not her duty to make announcements in the Ojukwu family. When pressured further that as a stepmother of Debe, she […]

The Presidency and the West African Examinations Council, on Saturday, disagreed on the reason for the issuance of an Attestation of Results to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday. While the Presidency insisted that Buhari didn’t apply for the results of the West African School Certificate Examination, which he claimed to have sat for in 1961, […]

Obiageli Ezekwesili, presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN), says the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are busy bickering over President Muhammadu Buhari’s West African Examination Council (WAEC) certificate when the country is facing “fiscal emergency”. In a statement on Saturday, Ezekwesili said Nigerians should be alarmed by […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Friday said two foreign banks, HSBC and UBS, have closed their offices in Nigeria. The CBN also revealed that foreign investment had fallen sharply from a year ago as FDI slumped to N379.84 billion ($1.2 billion) in the first half of the year from N532.63 billion ($1.7 billion) a […]

Some Nigerians were seen on queue scrambling for “garri” that was made in Ghana at the ongoing Lagos International Trade Fair. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the product, which was neatly packaged in 125 grammes sachet and labeled “Crispy Gari Mix’’, was on display at the Ghana stand at the fair. The […]

The Nigerian army has cited a video of US President Donald Trump, in which he says soldiers should respond with force to migrants throwing stones, to justify opening fire on a Shia group this week. “When they throw rocks… consider it as a rifle,” Mr Trump says in the clip. Nigerian police have arrested 400 […]

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has presented an attestation certificate and confirmation of school certificate result to President Muhammadu Buhari, his spokesman has tweeted. Iyi Uwadiae, the WAEC registrar, presented the certificate to Buhari on Friday at the presidential villa in Abuja. Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says he felt disappointed in the national assembly for delaying the passage of the 2018 budget by seven months. Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, quoted Buhari to have said this when he received a delegation of citizens of Niger state led by Abubakar Bello, the governor, at the presidential villa in Abuja on […]

John Bray, US consul general, and Laura Beaufils, British deputy high commissioner to Nigeria, say the issues faced by MTN in recent times sent bad signals to foreign investors. The US and UK envoys made the assertion on Thursday on the sidelines of a conference organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed the state of the Nigerian economy, promising that his administration will continue to implement policies that will strengthen it. The President spoke about the nation’s economy on Thursday after receiving the letter of credence from the new Ambassador of Denmark, Mr Jesper Kamp, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. ‘‘The […]