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President Muhammadu Buhari and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed, after talks, on Thursday in Ankara to strengthen cooperation between the security agencies of both countries to counter terrorism. Speaking at a joint press conference after a tete-a-tete with his host, President Buhari said he was ‘‘very pleased’’ that the defence ministers of both countries […]

The EFCC Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu, has said that the fight against corruption is becoming tougher, urging all Nigerians, including children, to use every weapon at their disposal to fight it. Magu said this in Lagos on Friday during the sensitisation forum on the plan to launch “EFCC-Creative Youth Initiative Against Corruption (CYIAC) Corruption Busters”. […]

A trending picture on social media which showed pupils of Edgerly Memorial Girls Secondary School in Calabar being compelled by an agent of the Cross River State security outfit to pack refuse with bare hands has elicited negative reactions from residents of Calabar-South. The picture went viral on face book on Wednesday after an agent […]

A civil liberty organization, “The Say No Campaign” has lampooned President Buhari`s fight on corruption. The group in statement issued on Thursday described the current anticorruption as one sided and urged all arms of government to  expedite action to salvage the longstanding commitments of governments since the 1999 return to civil rule, and what is […]

The Katsina Police Command said it arrested three youths who staged a fake kidnap of their friend to extort a ransom of N500, 000 from his father, Alhaji Illayasu Jibiya. DSP Gambo Isah, the Katsina Command Police Relation’s Officer on Thursday in Katsina said, “Those arrested are Aminu Rahamawa, (19), Abdullahi Bature (23), and Kabiru […]

The Former National Security Adviser (NSA) col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) has pleaded with the Federal High Court in Abuja to adjourn indefinitely his trial in the charges of unlawful possession of firearms and money laundering brought against him since 2015 by the Federal government.  He made the appeal in a motion on notice argued […]

Former President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has advised his political party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to make the mistake of making wrong choice of National Working Committee (NWC) members at the December convention. Jonathan gave the advice when he received an aspirant for the party’s national chairmanship position, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, in his residence in […]

Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has thrown his weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari for as president for another term, saying he remains the only credible person with capacity to deliver up to 2023. Ortom expressed the view while talking with State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with Buhari in the Presidential Villa, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja expressed concern on the growing complaints and agitations by workers in states over unpaid salaries and allowances, in spite of interventions by the Federal Government Receiving a group of governors led by the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Abdul’Aziz Abubakar Yari, at the State House, President Buhari said […]

Nigeria says it is embarrassed with the reported cases of delay in issuance of visa to its citizens and vows will no longer tolerate the situation. The Interior Minister, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), has subsequently met stakeholders to take a firm position on the issue. The minister stated on Monday in Abuja at a meeting […]

The atmosphere within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State has become very tense as aggrieved members of the party abandoned the party’s Governorship campaign flag-off in Onitsha to hold a parallel rally in Awka, the state capital.  The group walked out of the flag-off in rejection of Chief Oseloka Obaze as the PDP […]

The recent closures of Intels belonging to former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar was a deliberate attempt by agencies of government to intimidate and truncate his perceived ambition to contest the 2019 Presidential elections, All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Comrade Timi Frank has revealed.  Frank who is also the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party APC […]