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Breaking : Detained Malian President, Keita, resigns amid coup
Trapped in the quicksand of month-long political turmoil and coup which ousted him, Malian President, Ibrahim Keita, on Wednesday indicating he was...
Information Minister mourns Buhari’s ex-spokesman, NAN ex-MD, Board Chairman, Editor-in-Chief, Wada Maida
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has expressed profound shock and sadness over the death of President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
COVID-19: FG to NANS: Varsities will reopen when nation is on safe mode
The Federal Government says schools including tertiary institutions will reopen as soon as it is safe to stave off the spread...
Plan to scrap Amnesty Programme: Don’t wake sleeping lion, Clark cautions FG
Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has cautioned the Federal Government not to scrap the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), for ex-militants, saying it rupture...
Withdraw NBC ‘insult code’ in 7 days, SERAP urges Buhari
Irked by the new National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Code and memo threatening to sanction any broadcast that denigrates, disrespects, insults, and abuses...
FG commences operation on new Lagos-Ibadan standard guage rail line mid-September
With effect from mid-September this year, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it will commence skeletal operations on the new Lagos-Ibadan Standard...
Foreign loans: FG says we borrow for Infrastructure development
The Federal Government said on Saturday assured Nigerians that the loans it borrowed from China and other sources were being effectively utilised...
Tinubu extols Carrington, says he fought repressive government in Nigeria
All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described the late former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, as a...
Just in: Crisis rocks the nation’s “university of first choice’’, Unilag, over “sack’’ of VC
As the Senate of the University of Lagos meets to discuss the abrupt removal of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, security officials...
Pedophilic rape: Sexagenarian gets multiple stoning judgment
Caught on the wrong side of the law for ravishing an underage girl, 60-year-old Mati Abdu is to die by multiple stoning,...
FG approves N8.49bn for COVID-19 items to strengthen NCDC testing and diagnostic capacities
The Federal Government on Wednesday approved N8.49 billion for the procurement of 12 items to enhance the testing and diaégnostic capacities of...
Just in: Foreign Affairs Minister, Onyeama, defeats COVID-19
After 24 days, COVID-19 afflicted Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, has recovered from the virus. Persecondnews recalls that the minister...
PTF spanks Edo APC rally, Kashamu funeral organizers for violating COVID-19 protocols
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 pandemic says it is outraged by the non-compliance with COVID-19 protocols at the All Progressives Congress Benin...
Insurgency: Buhari says state governments, people should appreciate troops sacrifices
In spite of the inability of the military to win the nearly 10-year-old insurgency war in the Northern part of the country,...
Alleged corruption: Malami updates Pres. Buhari, says allegations wild, untrue
Amid wild and unsubstantiated allegations of corruption, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Malam Abubakar Malami, has written...
Kashamu’s interment: Mass of people violate COVID-19 protocols to pay last respect
A concourse had on Sunday massed at the late former Senator Buruju Kashamu’s Ijebu-Igbo country home in Ogun State to pay...
