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NNPC Ltd Board: Uphold corporate governance, transparency, Buhari tells members

The Board of the newly incorporated Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd has got a presidential directive on ensuring strict compliance with corporate...

Lagos-Lekki Deep Seaport ready in few months,  80 percent completed

    The Lekki Deep Seaport will be delivered on schedule as construction work has reached about 80 percent. The project, according to...

2023: Opposition might take over power if APC’s lingering crisis is unresolved – Buhari

    With storms of protests and wrangling sweeping the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) barely a year to 2023 polls, President Muhammadu...

NFF confirms Odion Ighalo will miss AFCON

  The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed that striker Odion Ighalo will not be available for the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations...

Electoral Act Amendment Bill: You can’t dictate to people, give them options,  Buhari insists

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to assent to the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment Bill if the...

US set to be world’s biggest LNG exporter – IHS

The United States is poised to be the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas globally this year as China, the world’s second-biggest economy,...

At last, FG bows to pressure, designates  bandits terrorists

    Bowing to pressure and good reason, the Federal Government on Wednesday declared rampaging bandits across the country as terrorists.   Persecondnews...

Buhari forecloses reprieve for IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, insists he should defend himself in court

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday foreclosed any reprieve soon for the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, saying...

Pres. Buhari assenting padded 2022 budget, but rejecting Electoral Bill: Gov. Wike’s stinger

  A tart reaction from Rivers Gov. Nyesom Wike has trailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s assenting the “padded and unimplementable 2022 budget” and rejecting...

2022 federal budget: Buhari to spend N2.3bn on local, foreign trips, Osinbajo N777m

  Ostensibly in pursuit of his diplomatic shuttle and foreign investment drive across the world, President Muhammadu Buhari is to spend about N2.3...

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MKO Abiola’s poll challenger, Bashir Tofa, 1993 NRC Presidential Candidate, dies

  The 1993 June 12 Presidential Candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, from Kano, has passed on....

Sanwo-Olu Hosts Southwest Governors'Forum in Lagos

Probe governors’ security vote, Pres. Buhari urged

“Anyone suspected to be responsible should face prosecution as appropriate, if there is sufficient admissible evidence, and any mismanaged public funds should be...

APC-led FG is hellish, mobilise and get the evil out of your lives, PDP Chair, Ayu, tells Nigerians

The national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says the APC administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has succeeded in foistering on Nigerians...

The Journey To Economic Hades And The CBN’s Interventions – A PSN Analysis

  The year 2021, no doubts, will go down in the annals of our nation as a most challenging year, not only for...

Buhari signs N17.126trillion 2022 budget, queries NASS over ‘additions and reductions’

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   Unimpressed with the alterations made in the 2022 Appropriation Bill, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday signed the...

Buhari administration’s scorecard for 2021: Its stellar performance, says Information Minister

    In spite of insecurity and the COVID-19-triggered economic and health challenges which confronted the country, the Minister of Information and Culture,...