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We will waste Abuja-Kaduna train abductees unless our demands are met, threaten terrorists

With the time ticking, restive terrorists who attacked and kidnapped passengers on the Abuja-Kaduna train two months ago, have threatened to kill all...

BREAKING: ln one fell swoop, Rivers Gov. Wike sacks commissioners, other cabinet members

  Just a year to the end of his tenure, Rivers Gov. Nyesom Wike, has sent packing members of the State Executive Council...

Anambra not haven for murderers, says Gov. Soludo

As tension continues to heighten in Anambra State as a result of the incessant killings by “unknown gunmen”, grief-stricken state governor, Prof. Chukwuma...

2023: APC sets new date for screening of presidential candidates

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced a new date for the screening of the party’s presidential candidates ahead of the 2023 election....

Again, APC shifts presidential aspirants’ screening

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has again postponed indefinitely, the screening exercise for its presidential aspirants earlier scheduled to commence today, Monday, May...

774 councils’ autonomy gets judicial stamp as court bars governors from tampering with their funds

A landmark judgment was delivered on Monday in Abuja barring state governors from controlling and disbursing local government funds across the country. Persecondnews...

Latest Anambra killings: Mother, her four children, two others wiped out

Barely two days after a lawmaker was beheaded, another horrendous incident has occurred in Anambra State with the killing of seven persons including...

SERAP raps INEC over unpunished vote-buying, unpublished parties’ account since 2015

Living up to its billing, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prosecute vote...

ExxonMobil reverses Omo-Ojo, veteran image-maker’s sack three years after

After three years of his sack by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, reprieve has come the way of a veteran image-maker, Ernest Omo-Ojo, following...

Protest rocks Abuja over six Council Chairmen tenure elongation, refusal to swear in new ones

Protest has continued to trail the suspension of the inauguration of newly elected six area council chairmen in the Federal Capital Territory. Supporters...

Malnutrition looms as acute food insecurity hits 14.5 million Nigerians

Due to the rising food prices as a result of insecurity and other factors, 14.5 million Nigerians currently suffer from acute food insecurity,...

Nigeria Exchange Group ranks Dangote Cement as 2021 best performing stock

Africa’s largest cement manufacturer, Dangote Cement Plc, has emerged the Best Performing Stock of the Year 2021 by the Nigeria Exchange Group (NGX)....

Magu was promoted to AIG after retirement — Police Affairs Minister, Dingyadi

Facts have emerged that the erstwhile sacked Chairman of the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC), CP lbrahim Magu, was actually promoted to Assistant...

BREAKING: Two days after Patricia Etteh’s arrest, ex-NDDC MD, Nsima Ekere, picked up by EFCC

Barely two days after the arrest of Nigeria’s first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, for NDDC contract...

Tension as traders, motorcyclists engage in bloody clash in Abuja satellite community

By Sam Ogbeifun Pandemonium reigned in Dei-Dei, a local community of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, following a bloody clash between commercial motorcyclists...