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Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum, has withdrawn from the presidential race in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and has returned to work.   Sylva was said to have withdrawn from the race having considered the enormous work at hand at the ministry.   The Northern Solidarity Group had on May 9, presented the […]

Police in Lagos State on Sunday arrested five suspects in connection with the killing of a 38-year-old sound engineer by commercial motorcyclists popularly known as Okada.   Reports said the father of two was killed in the Lekki area of Lagos over a disagreement with a cyclist over a balance of N100.   Police sources […]

…appeals to FG, union to resolve industrial action   The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has blamed the increasing rate of drug abuse in the state on the lingering strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).   Addressing journalists after the state’s security council meeting at Government House in Benin City, […]

Reports have emerged that two of the ten Ministers who had indicated their interest to pursue political office positions made a U-turn at the last moment when President Muhammadu Buhari organised a valedictory session for them.   The two ministers are Dr. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, and Abubakar Malami, Minister of Justice […]

Governor Aminu Tambuwal has imposed a 24-hour curfew on the people of Sokoto State in Nigeria’s North-West state following riots that broke out Saturday after the murder of a Christian student accused of blasphemy on Thursday.   Protests sprang up in different parts of the state on Saturday as angry youths marched around demanding the […]

…says they  have empty brains   All Progressives Congress National Leader and a presidential contender, Bola Tinubu, has taken a swipe at those insinuating that he lacks the health status for someone aspiring to the position of Nigeria’s presidency.   According to him such persons are ignorant of the basic facts with regards to the […]

  There was tension in parts of Sokoto State on Saturday morning as some Muslim youths protested in large numbers against the arrest of those suspected to have killed a female student for alleged blasphemy.   Deborah Emmanuel, a 200-level female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was mobbed and beaten to death […]

At last ten of President Muhammdu Buhari’s ministers are leaving office to vie for various elective posts in the coming general elections in 2023, the presidency has said.   This was revealed in a statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.   The statement was titled, ‘President […]

  President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered an investigation into the killing of a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Deborah Samuel on Thursday.   Deborah, a 200-level student of the institution, was killed and set ablaze on the campus of the college for allegedly blaspheming the name of the Prophet Mohammed.   A […]