By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerian youths to use their education and exposure to improve themselves and not see them as tickets to depend on the government. President Buhari made the call in an interview with Channels TV on Wednesday. According to the...
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President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill after the National Assembly makes the necessary adjustments. He, however, said such changes must include the addition of consensus candidates, indirect primary options to the mode of selecting a candidate for an election, as against the initial...
President Muhammadu Buhari has ruled out the option of pardoning the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Although he acknowledges the possibility of a political resolution, he believes the IPOB leader must answer for his actions over the years, especially while he was out...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday defended his government’s decision to source loans from China, saying anyone willing to help Nigeria’s infrastructure is welcome. According to data from the Debt Management Office, Nigeria has borrowed $2.02 billion as loans from China from 2015 and the country’s debt portfolio from China...
Family of the late Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr), on Wednesday, decried the legal advice reportedly issued by the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), Lagos, over the death of their son. Mr Sylvester Oromoni, father of Oromoni Junior, in a statement made available to newsmen in Asaba, called on President Muhammadu...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Government has released the official gazette on the proscription of banditry in Nigeria. Dr Umar Gwandu, the Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations to the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, disclosed this in a statement issued...
President Muhammadu Buhari says he does not care about his successor in 2023, saying he has no favourite in the forthcoming general elections. The president stated this in an interview he granted to Channels television which was televised on Wednesday evening. According to him, “I am not interested in...
Members of the Olubadan-in-council have endorsed Lekan Balogun as the next Olubadan of Ibadanland. This is coming on the heels of ongoing controversy on who becomes the new Olubadan. The kingmakers on Wednesday at a press conference at Mapo Hall noted that there is no cause for alarm as...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – No fewer than 250 shanties, 200 makeshift buildings and 40 sawmill machines have been destroyed by fire outbreak at Oko-Oba area of Lago State. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Wednesday at about 11:40 AM. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has...
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has said President Muhammadu Buhari played the hypocrite in signing the tampered 2022 budget passed by the National Assembly while declining assent to the 2021 Electoral Act Amendment Bill. According to Governor Wike, the hasty assent to the 2022 budget suggests that the president...
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Senator Margret Chuba Okadigbo, wife of late former Senate President, Dr Chuba Okadigbo as the new Chairman of the board and management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. She replaces Senator Ifeanyi Ararume who was appointed four months ago. In a statement issued...
A viral video over has shown a Pastor with Ghanaian accent bathing his female church members right inside the church’s auditorium. Based on the words of the pastor, it was concluded that the bathing of the female church members was at the 2021/2022 crossover service. This was also confirmed...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian Newspaper, Mr Martins Oloja and entire family over the passing of their patriarch, Elder Michael Oloja Lemikan, 93. The President’s condolence message is contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant...
THE Okaa Omee Youth Club of Nigeria is to honour Maureen Chigbo, publisher of Realnews Magazine Online along with Ike Oligbo, a lawyer and politician, and others with its Merit Award on January 8. Among those to also receive the merit award at the ceremony, which will take place...
By BASSEY EFFIONG, Uyo – The Akwa-Ibom State Police Command have arrested a suspected fraudster, Mr Imaobong Akpan, for allegedly impersonating the state Commissioner for Lands and Water Resources, Pastor Umo Eno. The state police spokesman, Mr. Odiko MacDon, disclosed this while parading the suspect on Tuesday at the...
President Muhammadu Buhari believes state police is not an option for the nation. The President made the remark in an exclusive interview with Channels Television which is scheduled to air on Wednesday at 7 pm (WAT). Calls for state policing have been made by several Governors as a way...
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has said his administration has embarked on rehabilitation of 99 roads across the state in the last two years. Governor Uzodimma said this while reeling out his achievements at a stakeholders’ meeting, organised by the state government in Owerri on Tuesday. The governor, who...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigerian Navy (NN), has alerted the general public of the existence of fraudulent websites, offering recruitment opportunities in its ongoing Basic Training School (NNBTS) Batch 33 recruitment exercise. The Director of Information, Naval Headquarters, Commodore Suleman Dahun, made this known in a statement...
Four inmates have died at the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Kosere Area, Ile-Ife, during an attempted jailbreak. A top security officer who spoke on anonymity made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ile-Ife on Tuesday. The official said that some inmates had planned to escape during...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Sokoto and Zamfara area commands, have confirmed the death of one person in a checkpoint accident which occurred at Asara village, Sokoto-Illela road. The command’s spokesman, Mr Balarabe Yusuf, who made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Sokoto, said the accident occurred...