No fewer than 3,700 delegates will determine the fate of the 15 presidential aspirants in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The delegates will be more should President Muhammadu Buhari assents to the amended Section 84(8) of the Electoral Act before…
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived to perform the official tape-cutting of the multi-billion dollars Dangote Fertiliser Plant at Ibeju Lekki, Lagos. The plant, built at a cost of $2.5 billion, has the capacity to produce three million metric tonnes (mt)…
The crisis between Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and his Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, deepened yesterday. Obaseki took exception to Wike’s attacks on him and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, saying that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not the…
A founding member of All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu has reacted to the lamentation by Emir of Katsina, Dr Abdulmumin Kabir Usman, on the increasing rate of poverty in northern Nigeria, saying that President Muhammadu Buhari has laid the…
After serious deliberations that dragged into the early hours of Monday, the National Executive Council, NEC, of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has voted to embark on one-month warning strike to press home its demands from the government.…
Niger state government has confirmed the presence of members of the Islamic State of West Africa, ISWAP, and the dreaded Boko Haram elements in some parts of the state. Government said the ISWAP members had already set up their camp…
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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of 26.150kilograms of heroin worth over N6.5billion at the SAHCO shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the…
An Abuja based anti-corruption NGO, Almushahid Initiative for Transparency and Accountability (AITA) applauds the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) for the giant strife to work together to deepen Nigeria’s implementation of Contract…
The Defence Headquarters has warned soldiers against any plots to overthrow President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and denounced a call for the military to take over the reins of power, insisting it is committed to Nigeria’s democratic rule. “We also wish…
