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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to all the Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva urging their delegation “to initiative and actively support the urgent holding of a special session of the Human Rights Council to address the ongoing killings of Nigerians […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja said he had no regrets being a person of honesty and integrity. “I am satisfied with what I am. I am happy I have kept myself and people close to me from benefiting from government contracts,” the President told a delegation of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria […]

The ongoing trial of a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Olajumoke Akinjide, and two others continued today, Monday, June 25, 2018 before Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, with a prosecution witness, Usman Zakari, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, revealing that […]

ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) EAGLE SQUARE ABUJA JUNE 23, 2018 PROTOCOLS It is my pleasure to address you today, on the occasion of our great party’s 2nd National Convention and the first since we rode on its […]

Although participation in “bourgeois politics”—as we used to call electoral politics—has never been absent from the Nigerian Left’s general programme, it has also not been made a “categorical imperative”. I am, however, now persuaded that it has become generally accepted in the ranks of contemporary Nigerian Leftists that intervention and participation in the country’s electoral […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday assured internally displaced persons, IDPs, that his administration will leave no stone unturned in restoring their devastated communities for their immediate and safe return. While congratulating the 2,000 IDPs at the Kuchingoro Camp, in the Federal Capital Territory who are getting set to return to their communities in the Northeast, the […]

…Warns INEC against Edo formula Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has accused the Federal Government of deliberately withholding the release of the Paris Club refund to states purposely to prevent Ekiti from using the money to pay arrears of workers’ salary before the July 14 governorship election. This is just as the governor also […]

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ekiti State, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, has fingered the state governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose as been responsible for the recent killings of APC supporters in the state. About five supporters of the APC governorship candidate in the state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, have been killed in the state […]

The National Assembly, Friday, responded to President Muhammadu Buhari’s criticism of the amendments made to the 2018 budget explaining why certain projects were injected into the budget. In a 12-page statement titled, ‘The President’s Budget Speech: Our Response” and signed by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullah and […]

PROTOCOLS It gives me great pleasure to welcome members of the International Press Institute (IPI) to Nigeria. 2It is the first time in the 68 years history of the media’s premier platform for press freedom that editors, media executives and leading journalists would gather in this country for its World Congress and General Assembly. Nigeria […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has said that President Muhammadu Buhari should be ashamed that he signed 2018 budget in June instead of blaming the National Assembly for performing its constitutional duties, asking “The previous budgets that he agreed with the National Assembly, what did he do with them? Where are the impacts of […]

The Department of State Services (DSS) said it has arrested two Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) commanders in Kukuntu village, Gwgwalada, Abuja. The suspects are: Bashiru Adams and Rufai Sajo. A statement issued by an operative of the service, Mr Tony Opuiyo, on Thursday in Abuja, said the suspects were arrested on May 5, […]