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Governors of Nigeria’s 36 states have joined in the rising number of voices against worsening security challenges in the country.   The governors, through their platform – the Nigerian Governors’ Forum – raised their voice after one of them, governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, narrowly escaped an attack by Boko Hara insurgents last week. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Niger Delta Development Commission to pay the fees and upkeep allowances for students studying abroad on its scholarship, but are now stranded due to the delay in the payment of their fees, the commission has said.   NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, in a statement announced that Buhari […]

Students of Niger Delta extraction studying in the UK on scholarships awarded by the embattled Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) laid siege at the Nigerian High Commission in London in protest against what they said was neglect and abandonment by the NDDC, which had stopped paying their tuition and sundry living expenses, leaving them stranded […]

FLAGRANT ABUSE OF PUBLIC OFFICE AND OTHER INFRACTIONS COMMITTED BY MR. IBRAHIM MAGU, ACTING CHAIRMAN OF THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION (EFCC) BEING EXTRACTS OF PENDING PETITIONS   1. The Acting Chairman of EFCC is not acting in the overall best interest of the country and the policies of this administration due to its […]

The Niger Delta Development Commission has alleged that a new wave of allegations of financial impropriety at the commission is designed to destabilize the work of the commission and scuttle the forensic audit.   “Less than two weeks after an exhaustive and exhausting public hearing by both chambers of the National Assembly, another round of […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a non-profit organization, says it has asked the Federal High Court, Abuja to order President Muhammadu Buhari to “publish details of loans that have been obtained by the government since May 29, 2015”.   The information to be published should include “the interest rate, the total amount of debts […]

Benue State Government has responded to the nationwide security outfit set up by the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, insisting that it will not operate in the state.   A Fulani socio-cultural association that goes by the name Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore announced this week that it had set a vigilante group nationwide with the aim […]

  The Nigerian presidency has said that the views expressed recently by a nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari that zoning should be abrogated in the choice of the next president, is his personal opinion.   Mamman Daura, who is regarded as one of those who influence Buhari, recently said in an interview on the Hausa […]

  Places of worship in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital and most populous state, will reopen from August 7,  Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced Saturday.   “Places of worship in Lagos will now be opened from Friday, the 7th of August for our Muslim worshippers, and on Sunday, the 9th of August for our Christian worshippers.   […]

Nigeria’s Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, has said that the country went for Chinese loans because of their low interest rates and favourable repayment terms.   Amaechi also clarified on the controversial sovereignty clause in the loan documents, saying that the clause on ‘waiving sovereignty’ in the loan agreement between Nigeria and China was simply […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday scored himself high on the fight against insecurity, saying his administration has done its best in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast of the country.   The president said this in an interview with State House correspondents when he, his family members and some top-ranking government officials observed […]

A Nigerian governor from the northeast survived an attack by the Boko Haram Islamist fundamentalists on Wednesday and blamed the incident on sabotage and lack of commitment by the military.   Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno State in Nigeria’s northeast region, Wednesday evening survived an ambush by Boko Haram insurgents at Kukawa near Baga, a […]