By Soni Daniel, Abuja Despite rising security challenges facing the nation, Nigeria is still safer under President Muhammadu Buhari than what he met on assumption of office in 2015, Information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, boasted on Monday at a news conference in Abuja. Mohammed, who was flanked by his Interior ministry counterpart, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, […]

By Ola Ajayi PROMINENT Yoruba leaders have warned the six governors in the South West zone not to negotiate the continued stay of Fulani herders in their states, urging them to toe the path of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) by issuing eviction notice to the violent herders. The leaders under the aegis of Yoruba World […]

By Ibrahim HassanWuyo Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has condoled Malam Musa Adamu, the husband of one Aisha, a seven-month pregnant woman who was killed by bandits on the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari Road in Chikun local government area of Kaduna state on Sunday. The Governor, who prayed for the repose of her soul, wished a […]

… Supplies FG with oxygen to stem high mortality  By Gabriel Olawale  Private Sector Coalition Against COVID-19, CACOVID on Tuesday  restated its commitment towards ensuring that no life lost as a result of severe oxygen supply problem even as it supplies Federal Government with oxygen for management of critical COVID-19 patients at the Isolation centres […]

I have watched with concern the recent development in Oyo and Ondo States in which quit notices were given to Fulani herders and there were subsequent burning of the property of the Fulani herdsmen in some parts of Oyo State. These happenings have increased the tension and unduly raised the temperature in the country. The […]

By Nwafor Sunday The presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, in last general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has faulted many Nigerians who said the country has failed, noting that it is at the risk of becoming a failed state, if nothing is done to remedy the situation. The former Vice President said this in […]

By Demola Akinyemi  Kwara State Government on Monday began a week long medical screening exercise for 4500 food vendors ahead of official take off of its Home Grown School Feeding Programme. “We are screening 4500 food vendors across the 16 local government areas for students of primary 1-6. The federal government will take care of […]

A court in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on Monday discharged four out of six protesters arrested in November for demonstrating outside the National Assembly. Last year, the nation was swept by weeks of widespread #EndSARS protests sparked by anger over brutality from the police’s loathed Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The government disbanded the […]

By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – COUNSELS in the on-going challenge of the victory of Governor Godwin Obaseki in the September 19, 2020 governorship election yesterday differed on the admissibility of the 2016 suit instituted by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Obaseki the  of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the discharge certificate of Obaseki […]

…says “our marriage crashing has nothing to do with Papa. …Apostle Suleman is innocent -Apostle Okpe …As Apostle Suleman sues Pastor Davids N500m Pastor Faith Edeko of the Omega Fire Ministries has debunked the allegations of alleged infidelity, threat to life and obstruction of access to children, levelled against the Senior Pastor and General Overseer, […]

ABUJA-THE Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) if passed into law will bring back investments into the sector in Nigeria and also address the issue of host communities’ rights in the country, stakeholders have said.

Chairman Nigeria Governors Forum, Kayode Fayemi has said that the Ondo state governor,Rotimi Akeredolu did not order herdsmen to vacate the state.

A voting machine manufacturer sued Rudy Giuliani, the lawyer for former US president Donald Trump, on Monday after he claimed the company had cost Trump last November’s election. In a defamation lawsuit seeking damages of $1.3 billion, Dominion Voting Systems said Giuliani and other Trump allies had damaged its reputation by alleging its widely used […]

*Insist on restructuring of security architecture By Joseph Erunke ABUJA- Some elders in the South West under the aegis of Coalition of Oduduwa Elders (COE),have expressed their frustration over what they referred to as the worsening insecurity in the country, saying Nigeria may soon cease to exist unless proactive steps are taken by President Muhammadu […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti Former State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and strong ally of ex-Governor Ayodele Fayose, Dr Tope Aluko, has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC). Aluko was formally received into the party on Monday by the APC State Chairman, Hon. Paul Omotoso, at Ward B Secretariat, Iyin Ekiti, […]