…Hosts APC National Youth Leader, Dayo Israel, All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential aspirant, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has promised to champion the campaign for Youth Inclusion in Governance within the APC for as 2023 general elections gather momentum. Fayemi made the promise when he hosted the members of the High Level Working Committee on Youth Inclusion […]

Atiku Abubakar Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday in Katsina, promised to restore unity in Nigeria, if elected the country’s president in 2023. Atiku gave the assurance while addressing delegates and leaders of the Katsina State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party at the party’s secretariat in Katsina. The former Vice President observed that […]

Troops of the 2 Brigade Nigerian Army in a combined operation with operatives of the Nigerian Police and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps on Wednesday raided a kidnappers’ hideout in Akwa Ibom and killed a notorious kingpin and gang leader, Otobong Moses, popularly called Otoabasi. The Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 2 Brigade, […]

Some aggrieved personnel had, in an impersonal letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, reportedly accused top army officers of corruption. The Nigerian Army on Tuesday dismissed allegations of corruption against some of its top officers. A statement by the Director, Army Public Relations, Onyema Nwachukwu, in Abuja, said some aggrieved personnel wrote an open letter to […]

As Sirika justifies aviation fuel scarcity ABUJA—PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari yesterday assured the International Civil Aviation Organization, ICAO, that Nigeria will deploy more investments to provide infrastructure and facilities for safe, secure, environmentally friendly and sustainable civil aviation. The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, also gave reasons for the current aviation fuel scarcity in the country, […]

Patricia Etteh The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh, over a shady contract worth N240m awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission. Etteh, it was learnt, was at the Abuja office of the EFCC on Tuesday and had yet to be released as of […]

Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, a leading Presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] has urged the delegates of the PDP in Bayelsa to be open-minded and not be sentimental when they cast their vote to elect the presidential flagbearer of the party come May 28 in Abuja. Mr Tambuwal who arrived in Yenagoa on Tuesday […]

Garba Shehu The presidency, on Tuesday, slammed the Northern Elders Forum for what it called “delusional arrogance” over its call for some sections of the country to secede. According to a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the presidency insisted that only democratically elected leaders […]

Traders, transporters and hotels lament the impacts of the sit-at-home order of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on their businesses in Nigeria’s South-east. When the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) first declared every Monday a sit-at-home holiday in the South-east of Nigeria in August last year, Emmanuel Ndu did not take it seriously. Mr Ndu, […]

File photo Analysts in the financial sector have projected further inflationary pressure in the coming months, even as inflation maintained an uptrend for the third consecutive month in April to 16.82 per cent. They cited the sustained pressure on food prices and energy costs on the back of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. In its Consumer Price […]