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As Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari prepares to visit the United States, Washington has said it will offer to help him track down billions of dollars in stolen assets and increase U.S. military assistance to fight Islamic militants. The US authorities also said they will use the opportunity to rejuvenate the country’s relationship with Nigeria. U.S. […]Read More

Scores of Muslim faithful who attended the special prayer session to mark Friday’s Eid-el-Fitri celebration were murdered as suicide bombers invaded the praying ground in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital. Witnesses say it was a twin blast at the praying ground and that the blasts were carried out by an elderly woman and a 10-year […]

An excited crowd at the Eid-el-Fitri prayer ground in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city on Friday mobbed President Muhammadu Buhari, but the President was adequately protected by a nearly overwhelmed security detail. Buhari attended the prayer that marked the end of the Ramadan season and the celebration of the Muslim festival, but immediately after the prayers, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mr. Abdullahi Muhammadu as the new Commandant-General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps. The approval was issued on Friday and communicated to the public in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. Muhammadu is replacing Dr. Ade […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) may just be ready to swallow the bitter pills that resulted from the emergence of the leadership of both arms of the National Assembly in June 2015 with Bukola Saraki becoming the Senate President and Yakubu Dogara as Speaker of the House of Representatives. This position follows Dogara’s reply, in […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday asked Nigerians to persevere in order to help the country’s recovery. Buhari said Nigeria was on the path of recovery from its many challenges, but that through greater self-denial, sacrifice and patriotism on the part of the country’s citizens, the country would soon be a better place.   The President, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, thursday, sacked Mr. Patrick Ziakede Akpobolokemi, Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency. The move was announced by Buhari’s spokesman Femi Adesina. No reason was given for the decision which he said took immediate effect. Akpobolokemi would hand over the management of NIMASA and all government property in his possession […]

The Presidency has reacted to claims of alleged posturing by President Muhammadu Buhari, against the Igbo people of Nigeria as broadcast by a pirate radio station. The radio station had endlessly played a voice, ascribing it to Buhari and claiming it was dubbed from the BBC Hausa Service, but one of the president’s spokesmen, Mallam […]

In faraway Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President, has suggested solutions to the ongoing problems of Nigeria’s governors’ inability to pay workers’ salaries and pension. The Federal Government recently approved a bail out funds for the states to meet this responsibility, but Osinbajo, in a statement by his Senior Special […]Read More

Former Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau on Thursday said he was not desperate about holding any political appointments in the country. Gen Dambazzau, the first Nigeria army chief to hold a PhD degree, and currently a Senior Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Peace, Democracy and development, University of Massachusetts, Boston, as […]

Unknown gunmen on Tuesday night assassinated Dr. Deji Adejobi, a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Obafemi Awolowo University and elder brother of the Police Public Relations Officer for Ogun State, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, in his house in Ile Ife. The assassins allegedly drove behind their victim in a black car at […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday to Washington DC  on a four-day official visit during which he will hold high-level talks with President Barack Obama and other senior officials of the United States government. Topmost on the agenda of  President Buhari’s talks with President Obama and United States Government officials will be measures to strengthen and intensify bilateral […]Read More