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The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee (NEC) has fixed April 20, to meet to consider the party’s timetable and schedule of activities for its primaries ahead of the 2023 general election.   Mr Felix Morka, National Publicity Secretary of the party announced this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.   He said […]

  The United States has approved a nearly $1 billion weapons sale to Nigeria after lawmakers had put a hold on the deal over concerns about possible human rights abuses by the Nigerian government.   In July, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee put a hold on the […]

  The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) on Friday disclosed that 142 drug dealers have been arrested in Abuja in three months.   He spoke when the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Mohammed Musa Bello visited him in Abuja.   Marwa […]

The Council of State has approved the pardon of former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye; and ex-Governor Jolly Nyame of Taraba State, who were convicted of corruption.   They were among 159 convicts who were pardoned by the Council at its meeting in Abuja on Thursday.   The former governors were jailed for […]

  * Says Nigeria Is In Need Of Drastic Solutions To Challenges   * Mentions Qualities Needed By Nigeria’s Next President     The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has declared that Nigeria needs a courageous leader to urgently meet the desire of citizens for drastic solutions to […]

Condemnation of the current insecurity in Nigeria continued on Wednesday with the House of Representatives attacking the President and calling for the sack of the minister for defence and the National Security Adviser.   The House, which held a high-level meeting last week with Nigeria’s military leaders, bemoaned the spiraling insecurity that has encircled Africa’s […]

As the allegations of domestic abuse as the cause of the death of Nigerian gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu continue, the head of the church where she worshipped in Abuja has denied having any knowledge of such incidents.   Dr. (Pastor) Paul and Becky Enenche, his wife, the lead Pastor of Dunamis international Church, has come […]

The terrorists who bombed the Kaduna bound train, the night after APC Consensuses Primaries are working for aggrieved politicians in the ruling All Progressive Congress APC, and I am glad that  multiple intelligence sources have confirmed  our findings.  In the same fateful night of attacks, , eight persons were confirmed dead and about one hundred […]

Miffed by the rising level of insecurity all over the country, the Northern Elders Forum has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign for failing to provide security in the country.   The demand by the Forum was contained in a statement issued on   Tuesday by its spokesman, and Director, Publicity and Advocacy, Dr Hakeem […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday asked the Senate for approval to make adjustments to the 2022 fiscal framework.   The president asked for an increase in the amount of fuel subsidy to N4 trillion naira, from N442.72 billion, and the oil benchmark by US$11 per barrel, from US$62 per barrel to US$73 per barrel.   […]

The Federal Government has rejected the 2021 annual World Press Freedom Index that characterized Nigeria as a country not conducive to the practice of journalism, saying Nigerian press remains among the most vibrant and freest in the world.   The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, announced the rejection Tuesday in Abuja when […]

Unless urgent steps are taken to tackle the rising level of insecurity in the country, the 2023 general elections may hold, eminent Nigerians and groups have warned.   Those who raised the alarm include the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Samson Ayokunle, and the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar.   They spoke […]