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Freedom At Last For Abducted Doctors in Cross River State

  The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Cross River State branch, has confirmed the release of the two kidnapped doctors and two others kidnapped...

Ogun PDP governorship primary: Supreme Court orders retrial of Jimi Lawal’s suit

The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Monday dismissed an appeal filed on the nomination of the Ogun State PDP’s governorship candidate further deepening...

Ukraine To Citizens: Leave The Country To Avert Energy Crisis

Persecondnews.com reports that parts of Ukraine are sending residents away to ensure that energy supplies do not collapse over the winter and that people...

Federal retirees drag FG to Court over disparity in Pension Policy

Retirees from federal ministries, departments and agencies (MDA) have gone to court to seek a redress to what they called discrimination in the...

Six days in office, Ekiti Assembly Speaker, Aribisogan, impeached, Adelugba elected new speaker

By Samuel Akpan Following the impeachment of the Speaker, Mr Gboyega Aribisogan, elected six days ago, a new Speaker of the Ekiti House...

Mass poverty: SERAP urges probe of Buhari’s govt’s impactless, bootless social safety nets, pro-poor interventions

Perturbed by a Federal Government’s agency’s report that 133 million Nigerians are poor and ravaged by poverty, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project...

Ex-Enugu State Commissioner, elder brother assassinated

Enugu an hitherto peaceful and crime-free state may have fallen into the hands criminals and assassins as a former State Commissioner for Rural...

FG’s poverty alleviation interventions unimpactful as NBS declares 63% of Nigerians as very poor

ln spite of special interventions by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, at least 63 percent of the Nigerian population of over 200 people...

Looted Funds: At least 3 governors on EFCC watchlist, says Bawa

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Thursday said that the anti-corruption agency has placed several governors on...

FG to ASUU: We are not backing down on “No work, no pay” law

The Federal Government on Wednesday foreclosed any negotiation with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the pro-rata October salary paid to...

32,000 sign petition to reinstate Nigeria to list of countries with religious freedom violators

More than 32,000 people have signed to petition the U.S. to reinstate Nigeria on the list of countries with religious freedom violators. The...

Water-tight security, tumultuous crowd as Buhari flag off APC’s presidential campaign in Jos 

The presidential campaign of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima of the ruling All Progressives Congress was flag off in Jos in the...

US Visa: More Visa Applicants May Be Eligible for Interview Waiver (Drop Box)

In an effort to reduce the unbelievably long visa wait times, the US has made more visa applicants eligible for interview waivers in...

Finally, Akpabio loses APC senatorial ticket to contest 2023 poll — court rules

The hope of former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, ex-Akwa lbom Gov. Godswill Akpabio to contest the APC senatorial Akwa-Ibom North/West District senatorial...

Nigeria: Who is in Charge?

By Reuben Abati Just recently, President Muhammadu Buhari travelled out of the country on a two-week medical vacation. As has been the pattern...