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Address health challenges that women face – Aisha Buhari urges stakeholders, privileged Nigerians
Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, has called on stakeholders and well-to-do Nigerians to put in their best to help resolve serious...
Saraki to face trial on three charges, says Appeal Court
A three-man panel of the Court of Appeal led by Justice Tinuade Akomolafe-Wilson Tuesday unanimously ordered the Senate President to return to the...
After decades of back and forth, FG hands over State house in Marina to Lagos government
The Federal Government has completed the handing over of the State House, Marina to the Lagos State Government on Tuesday after over 20...
Plane With 92 Deported Somalis Returns to U.S After Anti-Trump Protest Erupted in Mogadishu
Ninety-two undocumented immigrants who were en route to Somalia after being deported on Thursday from the U.S were rerouted back to America after their...
Appeal Court Issues Landmark Decision: EFCC lacks powers to prosecute serving judges
The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal Monday issued a landmark decision that serves to curtail the excesses of the Economic and Financial...
Okorocha says he is ‘considering’ running for president
Imo governor Rochas Okorocha is pondering a 2023 presidential campaign, the controversial politician said Saturday. “If you recall, I said but for Buhari,...
A frolic on the Red Sea By Femi Adesina
It was a gust of chilly wind that said Akwaaba (welcome, in Ghanaian language) to me in the Jordanian city of Aqaba, that...
Britain, EU reach Brexit divorce terms
Britain and the EU reached a historic deal on Friday on the terms of the Brexit divorce after Prime Minister Theresa May rushed...
Ndoma-Egba: NDDC to clear all foreign scholarship backlog
The Governing Board of the NDDC Wednesday disclosed that the Board had agreed to clear the backlog and all issues surrounding the foreign scholarship...
15,000 internally displaced daily in Africa
Conflicts, violence and disaster across Africa forced some 15,000 people to flee their homes every day in the first half of the year,...
Husband, wife and two children killed in raging Lagos fire
Fire investigators in Lagos were looking into the cause of a pre-dawn fire Tuesday which killed four members of at No. 13, Buraimoh street,...
#EndSARS: SERAP drags FG, Police to UN over detention of Moses Motoni of BudgIT
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to four UN special rapporteurs drawing their attention to “the arbitrary arrest...
Senate set to probe SARS brutality allegations
The senate voted on Tuesday to launch an investigation into alleged acts of brutality by Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The move follows a...
SERAP to Buhari: refer corruption in the privatisation process to EFCC, ICPC
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting him to use his “good offices and...
Minister appoints Zubair as acting SEC DG
The Federal Government has appointed Dr. Abdul Zubair as the acting Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission with immediate effect, according to...
IBB Expresses Fears Over Attempts To Purchase PDP Chairmanship Position
By Amos Dunia, Persecond News Abuja – Former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), on Sunday took a cursory look at the...
