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Buhari to inaugurate Lekki Refinery before end of tenure, says Dangote

The Chairman of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has assured that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery would be ready for inauguration before President...

Ex-Speaker Yakubu Dogara sacked from House of Reps

Former Speaker and current member of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, was on Friday sacked from the lower chamber of the...

25 days after, Buhari orders safe rescue of 100 kidnapped Kaduna-Abuja train passengers, others

About 25 days after the Kaduna-Abuja train was attacked by terrorists and over 100 passengers kidnapped, 

Non-deployment of technology: LASTMA official crushed trying to arrest erring motorist

More than two years that the Lagos State Government promised to deploy technology to track traffic violations as a state road traffic manager,...

Height of political insensitivity, open invitation to thievery, Afenifere reacts to cost of APC, PDP forms

The Pan Yoruba Socio-political group, Afenifere, has reacted to the exorbitant cost of expression of interest and nomination forms fixed by both the...

APC fixes N100m for Presidential Form, PDP N40m

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced N100 million for the presidential form ahead of its primary scheduled for end of May 2022....

Nigeria Air Force aircraft crashes in Kaduna, two pilots feared dead

Again, an aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has crashed in Kaduna State, killing two pilots. The aircraft was said to...

Ivory Coast’s President tips CBN governor as his deputy

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has named the governor of a regional central bank, Mr Tiemoko Meyliet Kone, as his deputy, paving the...

Uzodinma to Babalola: Call for interim govt in 2023 an invitation to anarchy

Legal icon and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Afe Babalola’s call for an interim administration in lieu of the 2023 polls is a...

BREAKING: After months of suspense, Lagos Gov. Sanwo-Olu gets Tinubu’s nod for second term

Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been given the nod to contest the 2023 poll for a second term on the platform of the...

School authority threatened to kill my daughter if she speaks out, mother of Chrisland pupil in viral ‘rape’ video says

The mother of a 10-year-old student of Chrisland School, Victoria Island Garden City (VGC), in Lekki area of Lagos, who was filmed being...

Calling Nigerian youths lazy without providing uninterrupted electricity abusive, unacceptable — Tinubu

As the race for the nation’s president’s seat hots up, President Muhammadu Buhari administration has received a bashing for failures recorded in some...

Pardon for Dariye, Nyame: Impunity for corruption, rubbishes judicial powers — SERAP

"Presidential pardon for corruption cases is inconsistent with the rule of law, and the public interest, as it undermines the principle of equality...

Presidential race: I’m for Tinubu, not Osinbajo, says Bayo Onanuga, PM News publisher

Mr Bayo Onanuga, a former Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and publisher, PM News, has denied jumping the ship of...

Abuja-Kaduna train attack: 19 days after NGF commiserates with Kaduna

The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), and Ekiti Gov. Kayode Fayemi on Friday led a two-man delegation of the forum to...

State of the nation: Nigeria is limping, needs fresh start, new thinking, new beginning — Emeka Anyaoku

Disturbed by the current Socio-economic and political state of Nigeria, octogenarian Chief Emeka Anyaoku says the country is limping and underperforming.