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…as many Generals may leave service   Newly appointed Chief of Army Staff, Major General Farouk Yahaya, assumed Command of the Nigerian Army on Friday.   This came seven days after the death of the former Army Chief, Lt.-General Ibrahim Attahiru in a plane crash.   A number of Generals were on hand to receive […]

The Delta State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the take-back of an earlier false claim by the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, that the recovered £4.2m had been returned to the state government’s treasury, has exposed the evil intentions of the All Progressives’ publicity machinery in the state. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff, the  Defence Forces announced Thursday.   Major General Yahaya is a replacement for Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in a plane crash on May 21, 2021.   This was contained in  a statement issued by Acting Director Defence Information, […]

…Akeredolu wants return to 1963 constitution   Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State Governor, on Wednesday, asked for state police, fiscal federalism, and a special economic status for the state in a new constitution for the country.   Sanwo-Olu made the demands at the start of a two-day Senate zonal public hearing on […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday declared that the condition of Libya will always have implications for countries in the Lake Chad Basin area, including Nigeria.   Buhari made this observation while receiving the Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, Mohammed Younis Menfi, in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.   Buhari explained why Nigeria may not […]

The Federal Government has returned the £4.2m looted by a former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, to the state government, the Accountant General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris, has said. The amount was repatriated from the United Kingdom by the Federal Government. Idris disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday when he appeared before […]

A suicide bomber on Tuesday blew himself into pieces  in Ebonyi State, as he detonated the suicide vest he was wearing.   The incident happened in Afikpo town, headquarters of Afikpo local government area of the state.   The incident was said to have happened about midday.   The lone bomber had attempted to enter […]

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said that the planned rehabilitation of grazing reserves will not take place in his state. The governor made the declaration in his response to an earlier statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Publicity and Media to the President, Mallam Garba Shehu, that the federal government was planning to […]

The Presidency has faulted the Southern Governors Forum’s decision to ban open grazing and other resolutions reached at their meeting in Asaba, declaring that the action is questionable legally.   The government also said that the action of the 17 southern states amounted to “acts of politicking intended by its signatories to demonstrate power.”   […]

The death of Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff and other generals in an air crash has worsened the country’s security challenges, President The President Muhammadu Buhari has said.   General Ibrahim Attahiru, the COAS  10 other military officers died late Friday when the aircraft in which they were flying crashed close to Abuja Airport.   […]

A sociocultural association of Igbo professionals, Nzuko Umunna, says it has dragged Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police to the International Criminal Court, the United Nation Human Rights Council, as well as various High Commissions and Embassies in Nigeria, over the IGP’s shoot-at-order to police officers in the South East.   Nzuko-Umunna described as horrifying, frightening, and […]