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No petrol price increase in March for now, says NNPC

  Contrary to speculations of imminent increase in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) in the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...

BREAKING: 317 kidnapped Zamfara schoolgirls breathe air of freedom

  The 317 girls of Government Secondary School in Jangebe, Zamfara State, may have been released, Persecondnews learnt. The schoolgirls were on Sunday...

Child hostage taking: Soyinka blasts Buhari, says your government has failed

  Outraged by the latest abduction of hundreds of school girls in Zamfara State, Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Saturday concluded that...

Petrol: Deregulation reversal will lead to scarcity of product, CSOs tell FG

  A Coalition of Nigerian Civil Society Organizations for Petroleum and Energy Security (CONCSOPES), has called for the sustenance of deregulation of the...

Ganduje’s Media Aide, Yakasai, given the boot for criticising Buhari

The Special Adviser on Media to the Governor of Kano State, Mr Salihu Tanko Yakasai, has been sacked for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari’s...

42 Kagara abductees including 27 students regain freedom, Pres. Buhari lauds their release

    At last after days of speculation about their release, the 27 abducted students of Government Science Secondary School, Kagara, Niger State...

Disquiet in Ibadan as Army, DSS, Police attempt to arrest Sunday Igboho

  By Boye Ajayi   Anxiety and fear pervaded parts of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Friday following an attempt by a...

FG to CBN, SEC: Regulate Cryptocurrency, don’t prohibit

  “So it should be thoughtful and knowledge-based regulation not prohibition. The point I am making is that some of the exciting developments...

SERAP wants UN Security Council to treat students’ abductions in Nigeria as a breach of UN Charter

  Indignant about spate of kidnappings in the country particularly abductions of students, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the...

Tension heightens as another 300 school girls abducted In Zamfara

  By Boye Ajayi Barely two weeks after some Kagara students were kidnapped in Niger State, gunmen on Friday abducted about 300 school...

Buhari Presidency rejigs its communication strategies, introduces weekly State House Briefing 

As part of efforts to ensure a coordinated approach to issues in the polity, Nigeria’s Presidency has unveiled a unique communication strategy dubbed...

Nigeria to receive first batch of COVID-19 vaccine in few days, says FG

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, says the Federal Government is mobilizing...

COVID-19 vaccines: FG signs indemnification, can’t hold producers accountable for after-effect

  Ahead of taking delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, the Federal Goverment says it has signed an indemnification that will make it impossible to...

FG’s diversification of economy facilitates Nigeria’s exit from recession — Ahmed

    The Federal Government said on Wednesday that Nigeria’s exiting recession was an indication that its diversification of the economy was yielding...

Jihadists’ rocket-propelled grenades on Maiduguri: Death toll now 16

‌ Boko Haram jihadists have attacked Maiduguri, Borno State capital, killing 16 people, including nine children as death toll rises. The children were...

Man tortured to death in Benue over missing goat

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh A man identified as Ordue Akume, was tortured to death on Tuesday over a missing goat in Lessel...