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NFF receives N15bn in seven years — Minister

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has so far received about N15 billion under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. The Minister of Youth and...

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Buhari to address UN General Assembly Wednesday September 21

World leaders will be back in New York next week as they address the world at the 77th session of the UN General...

Gunmen kill Church security guard, kidnap Pastor

James Ngyang, a member of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) has revealed how armed men killed a guard and abducted the...

Chinese delegation barred from Queen of England’s lying in state

Chinese diplomats have been banned from attending Queen Elizabeth II’s lying in state by  the UK’s parliament’s leading authority, allegedly in retaliation for...

National Security Council orders disbandment of NATFORCE, declares it illegal

Nigeria’s National Security Council on Thursday ordered the immediate disbandment of the National Taskforce on Prohibition of Illegal, Importation/Smuggling of Arms, Ammunition, Light...

Texas governor sends two busloads of illegal immigrants to VP Kamala Harris’s residence

Two busloads of migrants from the US-Mexico border has arrived outside Vice President Kamala Harris’s home in Washington, DC on Thursday in the...

Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project will reduce Africa’s carbon emission, says  Kyari, NNPCL GCEO

The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL), Malam Mele Kyari, has said that the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline...

Breaking: Atiku flies to Dubai on health grounds

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 poll, Atiku Abubakar, is set to travel to Dubai again. Persecondnews learnt a...

Port Harcourt refinery to become functional by December 2022- Sylva

Barring any hitch, the ongoing rehabilitation work on the 60,000 barrels-per-day capacity Port Harcourt refinery will be completed by December this year and...

Officials, journalists, others may miss UNGA over U.S. embassy’s visa refusal

The long-awaited United Nations General Assembly meeting (UNGA) began in New York, United States, yesterday, but some Nigerian officials and accredited and non-accredited...

ASUU strike: NANS blocking of Lagos-Ibadan expressway, violation of law —  FG

The Federal Government on Wednesday described a protest staged by members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Tuesday, blocking the...

Nigeria’s power sector privatization: Electricity workers call owners of power coys ‘hustlers, hawks’, demand reversal

Unimpressed with the performance of the electricity distribution companies and others following the privatization of the power sector in about 12 years ago,...

NNPCL set to seal $25bn 7,000km gas pipeline deal with Morrocco, ECOWAS

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) is to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a 7,000km gas pipeline project with National...

Over 300 lives lost to flood disasters in Nigeria in 2022, says NEMA

  At least, 300 people have so far been killed in flood disaster across Nigeria in 2022, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA),...

Southwest PDP joins “Ayu-must-go” growing call as Atiku gets rousing welcome in Ibadan

The call for the resignation of the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has gained traction in the...

Nigerians worse off today under APC govt., says PDP”s Atiku Abubakar

Nigerians are worse off today than they were before the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration took office in 2015, this verdict came on Tuesday from...