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Former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has called on the federal government to equip troops with modern weapons to help them fight insecurity. Speaking with the BBC Hausa on Sunday, IBB also asked Nigerians to support the security agencies in restoring peace in the country. The military, which has been fighting Boko Haram insurgency […]

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has criticised Super Eagles players, Kelechi Iheanacho and Wilfred Ndidi for displaying the Nigerian flag after their FA Cup victory in England, United Kingdom. Both Iheanacho and Ndidi play for English club, Leicester City and defeated Chelsea with a lone goal at Wembley Stadium on […]

Former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has claimed that he became poorer after ruling the state for eight years. The Senator representing Imo West District at the ninth Senate said this while denying allegations that he acquired properties with government funds when he appeared as a  guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. He said, “I challenge […]

The Senate has said some of its members who are advocating impeachment proceedings against President Buhari, are not serious about the issue. Two of the Peoples Democratic Party senators, Francis Fadahunsi (Osun East), and Biodun Olujimi (Ekiti South), had in recent times said their colleagues in the Senate should not hesitate to take necessary constitutional  […]

The Naira fell against the U.S. Dollar on Friday as the Central Bank of Nigeria erased from its website the exchange rate that for about a year was seen as the government’s official rate. The move by the CBN raised concerns about the devaluation of the currency that has long struggled amidst declining government revenue and foreign exchange. The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja today for Paris, France, on a four-day official visit to attend the African Finance Summit. Spokesman Garba Shehu revealed this in a statement on Saturday. The Summit is to be hosted by French President, Emmanuel Macron. According to Shehu’s statement, the Summit “will be focused on reviewing African economy, […]

Aggrieved parents of the remaining 20 abducted students of Greenfield University in Kaduna State have appealed to the Federal Government to urgently assist them in rescuing their children in the captivity of bandits. The parents who met on Friday for a prayer session in Kaduna decried the continued stay of their children in the custody […]

The World Health Organization issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be “far more deadly”, as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped. “We’re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than […]

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Friday said he is considering running for President in 2023. He made the comment while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “Nigerians, the youth and women, and all Nigerians, including very objective elites are asking me to run for President in 2023,” he said. “And I believe it is high […]

Following intensified insurgency attacks across the country, particularly in the North, the Nigerian Army has recalled a large number of its personnel studying in civil institutions (universities and polytechnics) across the country, according to a leaked memo by the Nigerian Army Headquarters, Department of Army Training, Abuja. In the memo dated May 11, the Nigerian […]

The United States has expressed dissatisfaction at how Nigerian courts continue to convict citizens of blasphemy, sentence them to long-term imprisonment and death. US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, stated this during the release of the 2020 International Religious Freedom Report this week. He also said the Nigerian government has not brought anyone to justice […]

The top US health agency on Thursday announced it was lifting mask-wearing requirements for people fully vaccinated against Covid-19, a watershed moment in the pandemic. “Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing,” said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has declared  Gimba Yau Kumo, a son-in-law of President Muhammadu Buhari, wanted over an alleged $65 million fraud. Kumo, who got married to Fatima, one of the president’s daughters in 2016, was alleged to have perpetrated the crime alongside one Tarry Rufus and another Bola […]

Two months after the federal government lifted a ban on in-flight catering services on the domestic routes, most of the airlines have not commenced the services, findings have shown. The federal government had suspended in-flight catering services after the resumption of flights which were suspended due to the COVID-19. The suspension of catering was in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday pledged said his administration is working hard to tackle insecurity confronting the nation and he hopes Nigerians understand. Speaking to journalists at the State House shortly after observing the Eid prayer, marking the end of the month-long Ramadan fast, President Buhari said that the menace of bandits and kidnappers will […]

AT least, 19 offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission have been gutted by fire in the last two years, findings by The Punch have revealed. A breakdown of the fire incidents showed that the most affected states include Akwa Ibom (four), Abia (three) Anambra (two) and Imo (two). Other states that witnessed fire incidents between February […]

Ministers, National Assembly members, federal appointees and other Very Important Personalities (VIPs) from the Southeast and Southsouth may be stripped of police escort when travelling home due to rising attacks on security agents. Police authorities have endorsed a signal to that effect. The signal, which emanated from the Delta State Police Command, advised officers and […]