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Amina Ali, one of the abducted Chibok girls, who was rescued by Nigerian Army, Thursday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari. She arrived the Presidential villa with her four month old daughter,accompanied by her mother and Borno State Governor,  Kashim Shetima. During the meeting, President Buhari held her four month old baby baby fathered by an alleged Boko […]Read More

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday reversed the impeachment of Speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Momoh Lawal. The court also reinstated other principal officers of the House. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba ruled that the process for the removal of the principal officers failed to conform with Sections 92(2) (c) and […]

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced that it has postponed the 2016 Batch A, stream II orientation programme, indefinitely. NYSC in statement issued, Thursday, cited logistics as the reason for the postponement of orientation programme, which was scheduled for Saturday, May 21, 2016. It noted that  a new date would be announced “in […]

A former National Security Adviser, Colonel Muhammadu Sambo Dasuki, has told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday that weapons found in his Asokoro residence last year belonged to the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). Dasuki  said the weapon found barely 48 hours after he  left office were for the use of the […]

The business mogul Aliko Dangote’s proposal to construct Lokoja-Obajana-Ilorin Road has been approved on Wednesday by The Federal Executive Council (FEC). Dangote Cement’s Obajana factory is located along that axis. ‎The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of FEC meeting presided over by President […]

French Ambassador to Nigeria, Denys Gauer has officially presented an artifact, a Terracotta figurative sculpture that was repatriated after it was intercepted in France while in transit from Togo to the United States in 2008. The Nok Terracotta was officially presented to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at a ceremony to […]

A Former Head of Service, HoS, to the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, has been re-arraigned on Wednesday by The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court, Abuja on an amended 35-count charge bordering on stealing and obtaining money by false pretence. In the amended charge dated November 2, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja noted that the inability of the Nigerian military to eradicate Boko Haram was due to corruption. In a meeting with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Dr. Ahmed El-Tayeb, President Buhari stated  that the loss of 14 local government areas to Boko Haram had greatly ruined the reputation of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The President noted that his Administration had put in place measures to curb corruption and provide better […]Read More

Despite threats by the Nigerian government, the Nigeria Labour Congress has vowed to continue the strike it embarked on, Wednesday. The intent of the industrial action is to force the government to reverse its decision to increase Petrol pump price to N145 per litre. Nigerian Labour Congress, which made  its position known in a statement issued, Wednesday, […]Read More

Mr Joseph Anchor, The Nasarawa State Head of Service (HoS), has announced the State Government’ s plan  to reverse it’s decision to cut salaries of the state civil servants by 35 per cent. The HoS said that the decision for reversal was taken following a successful meeting with the organised labour in Lafia, on Wednesday. […]

Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Joe Ajaero-led faction of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) that had planned to commence an industrial action, on Wednesday, to protest the liberalization of the petroleum downstream sector, which led to a new fuel pump price of N145 has been Commended for not going ahead with the earlier planned […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has  clarified why former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has not been repatriated to face the corruption allegation preferred against her. According to the anti-graft agency, it is waiting for the conclusion of the corruption case she is facing in the United Kingdom (UK), before she would […]