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March 14, 2017 No Responses

Buhari to Osinbajo: Head delegation on Niger Delta crisis

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday directed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to head a special presidential delegation charged with the task of resolving the crisis in the Niger Delta. Speaking with Journalists on Monday in Abuja, the Special Adviser to the...

March 14, 2017 No Responses

Obaseki to US Ambassador: We will make Edo an economic hub

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has disclosed that part of his administration’s strategic plan was to ensure that Edo State becomes an economic hub through agricultural and industrial activities. This was as he received the American Ambassador to Nige...

March 13, 2017 No Responses

Edo, Delta to give Ogbemudia state burial

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has met with the Ogbemudia family on Saturday to pay condolence to the family as well as to discuss plans for the former governor’s state burial. In addition, Edo and Delta states are collaborating...

March 10, 2017 No Responses

Fashola explains support for Lagos projects, $200m World Bank loan

By Hakeem Bello – The attention of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has been drawn to certain statements credited to the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode claiming that the “Federal Ministry of Works“ has been...

March 8, 2017 No Responses

Labour vows to occupy Rivers State over alleged anti-workers’ policies

Citing alleged anti-labour policies in Rivers State, organised labour under the auspices of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has concluded mobilisation to “shut down Port Harcourt, the Rivers State Capital, and other major cities in th...

February 28, 2017 No Responses

Presidency: Osinbajo not performing better than Buhari

The Presidency on Monday said it was wrong for anybody to be claiming that the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has been performing better than President Muhammadu Buhari since the President started his extended medical vacation. It said Osinbajo still co...

February 14, 2017 No Responses

FG will intensify war against corruption, says Minister

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the Federal Government will intensify the war against corruption to ensure that all those who abused the collective human rights of Nigerians through mindless looting of the treasury are...

February 7, 2017 No Responses

‘My conversation with Buhari was focused on economy, Budget’

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has assured the nation that President Muhammadu Buhari is hale and hearty and would return home as soon as he completes the necessary tests recommended by his doctors in the United Kingdom. Prof. Osinbajo gave...

January 27, 2017 No Responses

Edo swears in Ikponwen as new Chief Judge

The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki on Thursday, sworn in Justice (Mrs) Esohe Ikponwen, as the substantial Chief Judge of the state. Speaking during the swearing in ceremony at the state Government House, Obaseki said that every government must...

January 23, 2017 No Responses

Gambia: Dogara lauds Buhari, ECOWAS leaders

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and leaders of the Economic Community of West African States for the role they played in averting major political crisis in the Gambia. In a...

January 23, 2017 No Responses

Mauritius Prime Minister to hand over to son

(BBC) Mauritian Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth says he is stepping down to hand power to his son, Pravind. The 86-year-old first became prime minister in 1982, beginning a third spell as leader in 2014. In a televised address Mr Jugnauth...

January 22, 2017 No Responses

Yahya Jammeh leaves Gambia

(BBC) Gambia’s former President Yahya Jammeh has left the country in the wake of elections that ousted him after 22 years in power. He boarded a plane to Guinea and from there will travel on to exile in Equatorial Guinea,...

January 21, 2017 No Responses

Trump vows to ‘put America first’

(BBC) President Donald Trump has painted a bleak picture of a broken country after being sworn in as US president. He spoke of abandoned factories, rampant crime and a failed education system, pledging that his presidency would bring about change....

January 17, 2017 No Responses

Attack on UNIMAID worrisome, dangerous development, says Atiku

Former Vice President and Chieftain for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Atiku Abubakar condemns the suicide bomb attack on a mosque at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), describing it at as a dangerous development. In a statement released by...