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President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has condemned the killing of the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Nasarawa State PHILIP SHEKWO. The President challenged the security agencies to “do more” to end violence in Nigeria. The late APC Chairman was kidnapped by gunmen, who stormed his residence in Lafia on Saturday night and was found […]
Popular activist and co-convener of #BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, advocacy group AISHA YESUFU, has reacted to the death of Chairman of the All-Progressives Congress, Nasarawa State, PHILLIP SHEKWO, claiming that no one is safe in the country. The late APC Chairman was kidnapped by gunmen, who stormed his residence in Lafia on Saturday night. Reacting, AISHA expressed […]
Labour union representatives on Sunday staged a walk-out from a meeting with the federal government, barely five minutes after it started. According to the president of the Trade Union Congress, QUADRI OLALEYE, on the meeting’s top agenda were the issues surrounding the hike in the price of fuel and electricity tariffs, not issues of palliatives. […]
A debate is raging over the exclusion of Rivers State (as the only State so excluded), from recipients of the 66.5 billion naira COVID-19 Responsive 2020 Budget Results Achievement Grant. This is a source of worry for two non-governmental organisation the Social Action and Rivers State Anti-Corruption Network, who described the move as an indication […]
Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, a body of staff working in the National and State Assemblies has expressed disappointment over non-implementation of financial autonomy for state legislative houses. Speaking after the session of the National Executive Council meeting of PASAN in Abuja, National President of PASAN, MOHAMMED USMAN said President MUHAMMADU BUHARI last year […]
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the nation’s economy has formally entered into recession as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted for the second consecutive quarter by 3.62 per cent in the third quarter of 2020. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, in its GDP report for third quarter of 2020 said the nation recorded […]
A former aviation minister and foremost chieftain of the main opposition political party in Nigeria, Chief OLUFEMI FANI-KAYODE has praised the immediate past President of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, as the most humane, civilized, and decent politician in Nigeria. FEMI in a short birthday essay posted on his social media platform, said those who betrayed […]
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, FEMI GBAJABIAMILA, has confirmed that an agent of the Department of State Services attached to him shot and killed Ifeanyi Okereke, a newspapers vendor in Abuja. The Nigeria Police Force had denied that its officer shot the vendor. GBAJABIAMILA, in his second statement on Friday, identified the DSS […]
The Rivers State Governor NYESOM WIKE has criticized his Ebonyi State counterpart Governor DAVID UMAHI, over his statement that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, never contributed to his political ambition. WIKE speaking on a televised programme, described Governor UMAHI statement during his defection to All Progressives Congress as a display of arrogance. Governor WIKE also […]
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, described the report by US-based media giant, CNN as “irresponsible journalism”. The Minister added that CNN should be sanctioned for misinformation and irresponsible reporting. He said, previous reports done by CNN on Lekki Shootings lack balance while insisting that […]
