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The Presidency is constrained to decry criticisms, mostly on social media, on the retention in London of the Presidential Aircraft, NAF 001 as mostly informed by lack of understanding of protocol around foreign trips by Heads of State all over the world. It is important to state that for reasons of protocol, national security, diplomacy […]

The Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN has approved the appointment of fourteen Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors in Teaching Hospitals, Federal Medical Centres and Specialty Hospitals in Nigeria.   This was contained in an approval letter signed by the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Acting President addressed to the Honourable Minister of […]

A top investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on June 24, 2017 escaped death by the whiskers when gunmen opened fire on him  in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Mr. Austin  Okwor an operative in the Property Fraud Section of the EFCC Zonal office in Port Harcourt, had closed late for the day […]

Former Taraba state governor, Mr. Dambaba Suntai, who survived an air crash at the Yola Airport in 2012, is dead. He died at home on Wednesday. He is reported to have brain injuries arising from the plane accident Mr. Emmanuel Bello, a former Commissioner for Information in the state, broke the news of the death. […]

Young people have been acknowledged as the most special breed among the citizens of Nigeria on account of the range of privileges they enjoy, which their forebears never had. The recognition was made by Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari at a dinner organized for young people to mark the end of the […]

The Nigeria Police has denied claims by Boko Haram that it abducted some female officers. Police Public Relations Officer, Moshood Jimoh denied the claim during an in interview with Daily Sun. Jimoh said that facts and intelligence available to the police showed that aside from the two police personnel who lost their lives during an […]

Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerians that the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would address all grievances in the country. According to a statement issued on Tuesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the Acting President stated this during his interactions with leaders from the North, Southeast and the […]

The Government of Spain deported 23 Nigerians for committing various offences in the country. They were deported on Tuesday, barely five days after 34 Nigerians were sent home from six European countries for committing immigration-related offences. It was reported that recently that 34 Nigerians were jointly deported by six European countries on 22nd June for […]

Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto says the secessionist agitations currently in Nigeria and its associated responses are signs  of rot in the Nigerian system. The Sultan made the observation in Sokoto on Tuesday while receiving Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike who paid him a Sallah homage. The Sultan noted that in the past, […]

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, yesterday, 26 June 2017, feted with troops of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), who are directly involved in the ongoing counterinsurgency operations in the North East. Earlier on in the day, the CAS, accompanied by other senior NAF officers, had breakfast with pilots, technicians […]

A civil rights organisation, Campaign Against Military Impunity, has raised the alarm over alleged recruitment scandal in the Nigerian AirForce. The organisation alleged that the Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, had compromised standards in the recruitment exercise for non-commissioned officers from the core North. Presently at the Airforce Base in Kaduna, there […]

Former Nigerian Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, says the time to restructure Nigeria is here.  Babangida made the assertion on Monday while appealing to Nigerians to desist from further campaign of hate to avoid repeating the sad experience of the civil war. The appeal was made during prayers to mark his 75th birthday celebration at […]