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Governors of South-South region on Monday rose from their meeting in meeting with a resolution to join the suit on the collection of the Value Added Tax.   The governors’ decision to be joined in the case at the Supreme Court was contained in a communique they issued at the end of the meeting, which […]

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has restated its threat to impose a month-long sit-at-home order all over the southeastern region.   To prevent this shutdown of the economy in the region, IPOB says its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, must be bought to court on October 21, the next adjourned date for his trial in Abuja, […]

The National Association of Resident Doctors has suspended its 64-day nationwide strike.   The doctors will resume work at 8 am on Wednesday, October 6, 2021, the President of the association said Monday, bringing an end to the strike action that began on August 2 this year.   But the association said it has given […]

Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has berated President  Muhammadu Buhari for saying that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable in his Independence Day speech.   Adebanjo said that Buhari, who is 78 years old, ought to have known that Nigeria’s Independence and terms of unity were negotiated in the 1950s, but the President was a “small […]

The spate of killings and arson that erupted in Anambra State recently continued on Sunday as the marauding squads torched the county home of Joe Igboke, the Lagos-based All Progressives Congress chieftain, and the offices of the Department of State Services, and the Federal Road Safety Corps, all in Nnewi.   The gang, known as […]

Retired Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Sikiru Smith, has regained freedom from his kidnappers, five days after he was abducted in Lagos.   Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu confirmed that Smith had been reunited with his family.   Police rescued Smith early Saturday morning from the waterside at Langbasa where his kidnappers abandoned him […]

A serving member of the National Assembly is one of the sponsors of the secessionists currently pushing for independence from Nigeria, President Muhammdu Buhari revealed on Friday.   Buhari did not name the alleged sponsor, but said investigations were ongoing. He spoke in an Independence Day broadcast to make the country’s 61st anniversary.   “The […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday announced a conditional lifting of the ban on Twitter, which the government imposed on the micro-blogging platform on June 5, 2021.   The president announced this in his Independence Day speech and explained that the lifting of the ban was conditional on some requirements being met to allow Nigerians to […]

The leading opposition People’s Democratic Party has zoned the position of its national chairman to the North.   This comes a few days after Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the pan-Igbo sociocultural organization, declared that PDP risked going into extinction if it zoned its presidency to the north in the 2023 elections.   However, PDP is yet to […]

The Kaduna State Government has directed the shutdown of telecommunications services, with the aim of checking the influx of bandits from Zamfara and Katsina States.   The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, reiterated the announcement, which had earlier been made by  Governor Nasir El-Rufai, as he addressed journalists in Kaduna on  […]

  Dr. Chike Akunyili, the husband of late former Information Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has been reportedly murdered by gunmen.   He was killed at Umuoji in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State on Tuesday evening, according to The Nation Newspaper.   The paper quoted a source close to the family that said the deceased […]

  Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo sociocultural group, has cautioned the  People’s Democratic Party (PDP) against  zoning its 2023 presidential to the North, warning that such a move would spell the party eternal demise.   Ohanaeze spoke a day after the Northern States Governors’ Forum met with Northern Emirs and Chiefs in Kaduna and rejected […]