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Aisha Buhari congratulates Amina Mohammed on receiving the Global Citizen Award
First Lady Aisha Buhari Sunday congratulated Mrs. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations on receiving the World Leader...
SERAP To Buhari, Osinbajo and 36 governors: ‘Publish your assets within 7 days’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent Freedom of Information requests to President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, 36 state...
Fire destroys Sen. David Mark’s ambulances, 15 motorcycles at his Otukpo estate
Early morning fire has destroyed some houses at the sprawling estate of former Senate President David Mark at Otukpo in Benue State with about two...
FG’s 2020 troops withdrawal: Governors urge stay of action amid threats of ISWAP
Worried by the Federal Government’s decision to withdraw troops from the Northeast and some parts of the North in 2020, some governors...
Nigeria’s rising debt profile is nothing to worry about, says Lai Mohammed
… calls Obasanjo, others scaremongers There is no cause for alarm over the country’s rising domestic and external debts, says Information and...
Insecurity: Military to withdraw troops from volatile areas in 2020
With effect from the first quarter of 2020, the federal government will withdraw military troops from some volatile parts of the country...
Weekend wedlocks: Maiduguri peaceful, not shut down
By Kunle Akinsola … excited residents, visitors savour the allure of the city Contrary to reports that...
SERAP, others ask court to stop Buhari, others from spending ‘N37bn NASS renovation budget’
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT, Enough is Enough (EiE) and 583 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit asking the...
University final year student ritually slaughtered by boyfriend, mum
By Kunle Akinsola …smashes her head with pestle in her sleep The life of a final year Theatre Arts student of Lagos State University...
N24.9trn debt: Nigeria may soon become world’s poorest nation, says Obasanjo
…our children, children’s children must be saved from debts After a spell of reticence, a one-time President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, says he is...
Another Christmas Tragedy: DSS officer’s bullet misses his boss’ fleeing Christmas cow, kills domestic staff
Another Christmas Day tragedy has been recorded, this time at Alor in Idemili South Council Area of Anambra State as a middle-aged man...
Fresh facts about deaths of vacationing UK RCCG pastor, Diya, two children in Spain
More facts have emerged about the deaths of South-East London Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Gabriel Diya, his...
Christmas Eve tragedy: Vacationing RCCG Pastor, Diya, two children die in Spain
A pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Britain, 52-year-old Gabriel Diya, has lost his vacationing daughter and son...
Impassable roads: Bauchi locals ferry expectant mothers, sick to hospitals on donkeys
By Kunle Akinsola A Stone Age use of donkeys as means of transportation has resurfaced in Bauchi State in North Central Nigeria...
Buhari says conscious of his place in history after tenure
Conscious of finishing well, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday that at the expiration of his tenure in 2023 he hoped history...
Another Nigerian, the Eighth in 2019, “dies” in Maryland, U.S. jail cell
Another Nigerian has died in ICE custody in Maryland, United States, making the eighth to suffer such fate in 2019 alone....
