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President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Yakubu Pam as the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, the government announced Saturday.   Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity said in a statement that Pam was until his appointment the Chairman of the Plateau State Christian Pilgrims Board.   Pam, who […]

Godwin Obaseki, the Edo State governor and gubernatorial candidate of the opposition party for the upcoming election, has been issued with a new discharge certificate by the National Youth Service Corps, his aide has confirmed.   The new certificate bears the correct spelling of the governor’s surname, Crusoe Osagie, his aide on media and strategy, […]

Preparatory to the resumption of flights from July 8, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has released new procedural guidelines for air travelers and other airport users.   FAAN said the new Standard Operating Procedure is aimed at protecting all stakeholders and preventing further spread of the theCovid-19 virus.   Issuance of the new guidelines […]

Nigerians love God and believe in Him. This is evident in the zest with which they attend to places of worship, whether as Christians or Muslims. This attribute is being deployed as part of the country’s arsenal to combat the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic, as the number of confirmed cases on Thursday reached 27,110, with 616 […]

  The APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday night made nonsense of the recently created Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the APC by President Muhammadu Buhari; saying with ostrich evasion that “there is no crisis in the party, hence, no fight to reconcile,” hence there were no differences to be sorted […]

The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday joined the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) to reject the new petrol pump price of N143.80 announced by the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), saying it was inhumane and unjustifiable and should be reversed immediately to the status quo ante.    “The actions of the APC administration […]

Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Justice George Oguntade, and the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Justice Sylvanus Nsofor have been sacked from their positions over what President Muhammadu Buhari considered as their “unsatisfactory performance” in the execution of their duties.   Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a statement yesterday said the president […]

  The African Development Bank (AfDB) has appointed three eminent personalities from Ireland, Gambia and South Africa to a panel that will independently review its investigative committee report on whistleblower allegations against the bank’s embattled president Akinwumi Adesina.   They are chair of the elders and former Irish President Barrister Mary Robinson, former Gambia attorney […]

FC Barcelona captain Lionel Messi has called off negotiations over renewing his contract with the club, according to a report by Spanish radio station Cadena Ser on Friday. The report added that the Argentina captain was even ready to leave the Catalans when his current deal expires in 2021.   It said Messi and his […]

Adams Oshiomhole, who was removed last month as the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, has been named a member of the party’s governorship election campaign council for Edo State.   The 49-member council is headed by Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who was named by the Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the […]

In one of the highest price hikes since the government said it had fully deregulated the downstream sector, the federal government Wednesday raised the pump price of petrol to between N140.80 and N143.80 for the month of July. The government said with the removal of the existing cap on fuel prices, prices would be fully […]

The Federal Government yesterday announced July 8 as resumption date for domestic flights even as Nigeria recorded 790 new cases of the deadly Coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 26,484. The latest number of infections is the highest daily spike of Covid-19 cases.    “I am glad to announce […]