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Taraba visit: PDP, Afenifere, CDHR, others berate Buhari over comments on killings
Politicians have bastardised Awolowo’s legacies, loyalists allege
Is President’s rejection of Peace Corps bill appropriate?
2019: Group backs Dankwambo for president
Taraba visit: PDP, Afenifere, CDHR, others berate Buhari over comments on killings
John Alechenu, Olusola Fabiyi, Friday Olokor, Olaleye Aluko, Godwin Isenyo, Justin Tyopuusu and John Charles Groups including the Peoples Democratic Party, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, National Council of Tiv Youths and Afenifere have lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari over his statements on the killings in the country during his visit to […]

March 7th, 2018
Politicians have bastardised Awolowo’s legacies, loyalists allege
Samuel Awoyinfa and Kamarudeen Ogundele Supporters and loyalists of the late former Premier of the defunct Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, have alleged that many politicians who claimed to be Awoists have actually bastardised the legacies of the late politician. Some of the loyalists spoke on Tuesday at the Ikenne country home of the Awolowos, […]

March 7th, 2018
Is President’s rejection of Peace Corps bill appropriate?
Mr. Jackson Ojo, (Member, International Institute of Professional Security) The refusal of the President to sign the bill establishing the Peace Corps bill into law is appropriate. We have the police, the military, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Department of State Services and several other para-military agencies already in existence. Can we sincerely […]

March 7th, 2018
2019: Group backs Dankwambo for president
Jesusegun Alagbe A group, Concerned Peoples Democratic Party Youths, has thrown its weight behind the Governor of Gombe State, Dr. Ibrahim Dankwambo, for the 2019 presidential election. In a statement signed by its coordinator, Mr. Sani Bello, on Tuesday, the group extolled the virtues of the 55-year-old governor, describing him as the “brightest and best […]

March 7th, 2018
Robbers attack 75-year-old farmer in Katsina, kill son
Olaide Oyelude, Katsina The Katsina State Police Command on Tuesday paraded a gang of armed robbers who attacked a 75-year-old farmer, Abdulkadir Mikka, and shot dead one of his children. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Muhammed Wakili, revealed that the syndicate robbed the farmer and killed his son in Burma village in the […]

March 7th, 2018
Boko Haram no longer a serious fighting force, says Buhari
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said the Boko Haram sect was no longer a serious fighting force despite the ugly incidents witnessed recently in Dapchi, Yobe State and Rann, Borno State. The sect had abducted 110 pupils from the Government Science and Technical Girls College, Dapchi and killed United Nations’ aid workers […]

March 7th, 2018
Fresh Benue attack: Death toll rises to 24, mass burial holds Friday
John Charles, Makurdi Twenty four persons, mostly women and children, were on Monday killed in a fresh crisis at Omusu Edimoga in the Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State. The council Chairman, Olofu Ogwuche, stated this while conducting the state Governor, Samuel Ortom, round the affected community on Tuesday. The governor and members of […]

March 7th, 2018
FUOYE students, Okada’riders clash over transport fare
Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti Over 20 people were injured when students of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti and commercial motorcyclists clashed on Tuesday. Trouble began when a student and a commercial motorcyclist had a disagreement over transport fare. A source said the commercial motorcyclist slapped the student and that led to a fight between them, which […]

March 7th, 2018
World Cup trophy for Nigeria
The original World Cup trophy is expected to arrive in Nigeria on Wednesday. According to the Nigeria Football Federation, the trophy will touch down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja aboard a chartered flight at 11am. Sports minister Solomon Dalung and the NFF president Amaju Pinnick will have the first view of the […]

March 7th, 2018
Egmont Group: N’Assembly passes bill, separates NFIU from EFCC
John Ameh, Abuja The National Assembly concluded work on the bill establishing the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit as an independent entity by endorsing the Conference Committee report of the Senate and the House of Representatives. At the House of Representatives, members in plenary, simply adopted the recommendations of the report at a session presided over […]

March 7th, 2018
110 nigerians of Lassa fever – NCDC
The Lassa fever death toll in the country has now reached 110 as scientists desperately try to contain the ‘unusually severe’ outbreak. Fatalities from the killer disease in the country have rocketed by 22 per cent in the space of just one week, according to the latest official figures. It comes just days after the […]

March 7th, 2018
DSS releases detained journalist
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The Department of State Services has released the Abuja Bureau Chief of The Independent Newspapers, Mr. Tony Ezimako. He was said to have been released around 10:30pm by the security agency in Abuja on Wednesday night Journalists and members of civil society groups had planned to storm the headquarters of the DSS […]

March 7th, 2018
Magu is the best man for EFCC job, Osinbajo insists
Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, remains the best man for the job despite the rejection of his nomination by the Senate twice. Osinbajo said this in an interview he granted some journalists and social media practitioners in Lagos on […]

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