President Muhammadu Buhari has charged Nigerians never to forget the sacrifices of the heroes of Nigeria’s democracy during 1993 electoral process. The president made the call in a nationwide broadcast to mark 2022 Democracy Day on Sunday in Abuja. He maintained that the patriotism and peaceful struggle of these...
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ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF COMMEMORATION AND CELEBRATION OF DEMOCRACY DAY 12TH JUNE, 2022 Fellow Nigerians, Today, June The 12th, marks another Democracy Day anniversary and an occasion to...
BY ONOMIGUREN AGBAMU, Asaba – Delta State Chairman for All progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA), Elder Afam Ememokwu has dismissed claims that APGA is an Igbo political party, advising Nigerians to drop that notions from any quarter. Afam who spoke to journalists on Wednesday at Asaba, Delta state capital, said,...
Tick… tick… tick… And the breath stopped suddenly at 11.33 p.m. on Saturday, June 4, 2022. It was the moment I lost my beloved motherly father and brotherly friend, my dad, Imam Abdulhameed Shuaib Agaka (PhD). I had arrived Ilorin on Friday and met him at a private hospital...
The suspected building The Anambra State Government has demolished a building, allegedly being used as a hideout for gang of kidnappers in Okpuno-Ifite village, Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra. The demolition was executed during a raid by a joint operation team of vigilance groups, Police, Army,...
Eleven out of the 61 persons kidnapped following the March 28 Abuja-Kaduna train attack have regained their freedom. Among those who regained their freedom are six females and five males who have now been flown to the nation’s capital, Abuja. This was disclosed to Channels Television by the Spokesman...
The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, says Nigeria is currently on the pathway to greatness as the country celebrates Democracy Day on Sunday. Obasa made this known in his message to commemorate the country’s Democracy Day in Lagos on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria...
18-year-old Gombe United Football Club player, Mohammed Aminu, said his style of play had endeared him to fans and supporters of his club who gave him the nickname ‘Obi.’ Aminu, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe on Saturday, said fans likened his style...
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on Saturday, said the commission would soon make its stand known on calls for extension of June 30 deadline for the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR). Yakubu disclosed this while addressing youths in Lagos State at a Mega Musical Concert on ‘Youth Vote Count’, organised...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been described as an inspiration, role model and the Obama of Africa by his supporters. The supporters expressed these views at the Wuse, Abuja, campaign office of The Progressives Project(TPP), a coalition of support groups that backed the vice president on his presidential bid....
London to Lagos biker and a member of Rotary Club International, Mr Kunle Adeyanju, on Saturday said he cheated death about four times during his 41-days travel across 13 countries. Adeyanju told newsmen in Ilorin on the sidelines of a reception organised for him by the Kwara Rotary Club...
The Former Governor of Lagos State, Sen. Bola Tinubu, said as the country marks this year’s Democracy Day, the spirit of June 12 would expand to become the spirit of Nigeria and national greatness of their dreams. Tinubu, the Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the 2023...
Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber, disclosed on Friday that he is postponing his tour due to a virus that has caused partial facial paralysis. In a video posted on Instagram, Bieber said he had contracted Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which affected nerves in his ear and face. According to the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Saturday traveled to Kirawa, a border community in Gwoza Local Government Area, to supervise the resettlement of 2,500 displaced families into their homes which were rebuilt by the state government. The homes were destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents...
The Kuje Police Divisional Headquarters, FCT, on Saturday exhumed the body of Hussaini Aliyu Takuma, allegedly killed by suspected herdsmen at Jeda Community in Kuje Area Council. CSP Umar Abdullahi Sambo, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of the command who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen Faruk Yahaya, has said the 5,800 recruited soldiers would be posted at various theatre operations to tame persistent insecurity bedeviling some parts of the country. The COAS said this during the Passing-out-Parade (PoP) of the 82 Regular Recruit Intake on Saturday in...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the emergence of Sen. Bola Tinubu as the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate is a win for Nigerians. Sanwo-Olu said this on Saturday at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, when he returned from Abuja after the APC Congress....
The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu, says that the just-concluded All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention has proved nay sayers wrong and those that thought that the party will collapse. Mr. Okechukwu, a foundation member of APC, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
No fewer than 55 scrap metal collectors lost their lives in series of attacks coordinated by Boko Haram insurgents in the last three weeks in Borno. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Abdu Umar made this known while speaking on the sideline of a security stakeholders’ meeting on...
The Nigerian Ambassador to Benin Republic, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has offered measures capable of addressing the menace of insecurity facing Nigeria, saying that everybody’s participation in achieving a peaceful nation is necessary. Buratai, a former Chief of Army Staff, spoke on Saturday at a one-day symposium on National security,...