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Benue State Government has responded to the nationwide security outfit set up by the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, insisting that it will not operate in the state.   A Fulani socio-cultural association that goes by the name Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore announced this week that it had set a vigilante group nationwide with the aim […]

  The Nigerian presidency has said that the views expressed recently by a nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari that zoning should be abrogated in the choice of the next president, is his personal opinion.   Mamman Daura, who is regarded as one of those who influence Buhari, recently said in an interview on the Hausa […]

  Places of worship in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital and most populous state, will reopen from August 7,  Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced Saturday.   “Places of worship in Lagos will now be opened from Friday, the 7th of August for our Muslim worshippers, and on Sunday, the 9th of August for our Christian worshippers.   […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, has said that the country went for Chinese loans because of their low interest rates and favourable repayment terms.   Amaechi also clarified on the controversial sovereignty clause in the loan documents, saying that the clause on ‘waiving sovereignty’ in the loan agreement between Nigeria and China was simply […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday scored himself high on the fight against insecurity, saying his administration has done its best in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast of the country.   The president said this in an interview with State House correspondents when he, his family members and some top-ranking government officials observed […]

A Nigerian governor from the northeast survived an attack by the Boko Haram Islamist fundamentalists on Wednesday and blamed the incident on sabotage and lack of commitment by the military.   Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno State in Nigeria’s northeast region, Wednesday evening survived an ambush by Boko Haram insurgents at Kukawa near Baga, a […]

Yakubu Gowon, retired Army general and former Nigerian military head of state has said that there are people who do not want peace in the country, warning that the crisis in Somalia would be nothing compared with what will happen in Nigeria, should its external territory be compromised.   “If our territorial integrity is undermined, […]

  The dust raised by the statement by Mallam Mamman Daura, that competence and not zoning or rotation should determine who succeeds his nephew, President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023, has continued to rise, with the ruling All Progressives Congress distancing itself from it.   Also, Afenifere and Ohanaeze Indigbo have criticized the call for an […]

Senator Ali Ndume, who represents Borno South in the nation’s National Assembly, has asked the Nigerian government to stop the ongoing amnesty for repentant Boko Haram insurgents.   Ndume made the when he spoke in a British Broadcasting Corporation Hausa programme on Wednesday, wondering why the government was spending so much on the insurgents some […]