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    A passenger train training from Abuja to Kaduna in northern Nigeria was on Monday night, with many feared dead.   Several others were said to have been kidnapped in the attack on the train that was said to be carrying about 970 passengers.   The attack on the train was said to have […]

Nigeria will go ahead with the conduct of a planned population census this year, the National Population Commission has said. The NPC however could not give a definite date for the exercise.   This assurance was given on Monday by the chairman of the NPC, Nasir Kwarra, while speaking Karu, Nasarawa State, at the start […]

The Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), notes that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state has become a dead political party, with none of its organs functioning hence its inability to provide the seriously needed perspective and constructive criticism that is expected of a viable opposition party.   With the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari joins members, leaders and chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in rejoicing with National Leader of the party and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on his 70th birthday, March 29, 2022.   President Buhari affirms the contributions of the party stalwart to the political, economic and social […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “widely publish the details of safeguards and mechanisms put in place to protect the privacy and security of election information and data in the custody of INEC, including in its servers, databases and other […]

Abdullahi Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State, early on Sunday morning emerged the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress.   Adamu’s emergence was expected ahead of the convention as he was the chosen candidate of President Muhammadu Buhari under the party’s consensus arrangement for the selection of its national officers.   Adamu’s […]

   Here are the endorsed aspirants for the various positions:    National Chairman – Senator Adamu Abdullahi (Nassarawa State)       Deputy National Chairman (North) – Senator Abubakar Kyari (Borno State)       Deputy National Chairman (South) – Chief Emma Enenukwu (Enugu State)       National Secretary – Iyiola Omisore (Osun State) […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday called on members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to remain united and strong and also support the incoming leadership of the party.   Speaking at the Eagle Square, Abuja, venue of the National Convention of the party, the President said:   “This Convention is coming at a crucial time when […]

  Bandits attacked the Kaduna Airport on Saturday, killing an aviation official and grounded a flight scheduled to fly to Lagos, The Punch and The Nation newspapers reported.   The bandits, said to number up to 200, invaded the Kaduna International Airport on Saturday, where they shot dead a security officer of the Nigerian Airspace […]

Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, on Saturday ordered an end to the Monday Sit-at-Home rule imposed on Nigeria’s South Eastern region by the proscribed  Indigenous People of Biafra.   Soludo ordered that from Monday, April 4, 2022, all markets, schools, banks and motor parks around Anambra will resume normal activities.   “Every Monday sit-at-home […]

Six members of the All Progressives Congress aspiring  for the party’s Chairmanship position have stepped down from the contest, a senior member of the party and one of the aspirants has announced.   The six former candidates have subsequently declared their support for Senator  Abdullahi Adamu, who is  the preferred candidate of President President  Muhammadu […]

The United States government says it has sanctioned six Nigerians who form a network that has been involved in financing the terror group based in Nigeria,  Boko Haram.   This was disclosed by the U.S Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, OFAC in a statement on Friday. The office identified the six […]