Three men in a Toyota Sienna car were kidnapped last night by suspected herdsmen on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. One of the passengers who escaped said ...
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Buhari swears in Tanko as substantive CJN
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, swore in Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The swearing-in took place at the ...
Read More »EFCC seals Rochas Foundation College, supermarket, daughter’s school
Operatives of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday sealed Rochas Foundation College, Owerri, Imo State. The anti-graft agency also sealed East High Primary ...
Read More »FG sacks 2,525 N-Power beneficiaries
The Federal Government has approved the disengagement of 2,525 beneficiaries of the N-Power Programme for absconding from their primary place of assignment. It also warned ...
Read More »Kebbi govt dissolves all LG Councils
The Kebbi Government on Wednesday dissolved the 21 local government councils’ chairmen following the expiration of their tenure on July 24. Alhaji Abubakar Dakingari, the ...
Read More »US travel ban shows presidential election was rigged, says Atiku
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 23 election, Atiku Abubakar, has said that the current travel ban imposed by the ...
Read More »Buhari forwards Akpabio, Saraki, Keyamo, 40 others as ministerial nominees
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sent a list of his 43 ministerial-nominees, comprising 14 returnee ministers and 29 new appointees to the Senate ...
Read More »Senate postpones recess to screen ministerial nominees
The Senate has postponed its annual recess by one week to enable members to screen the ministerial-nominees ...
Read More »Ministers: Buhari’s nominees incompetent, lack fresh ideas – PDP, ASUU, NECA
Various groups on Tuesday described as incompetent the ministerial nominees presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the senate for confirmation ...
Read More »El-Zakzaky: Shiite protesters clash again with police, soldiers
Nigerian troops and police clashed on Tuesday with unrelenting Shi’ite Muslim protesters as the group began another march in the capital Abuja despite Monday’s fatalities ...
Read More »Bandits kill two Air Force officers in Kaduna
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has lost two of its personnel, an officer and an aircraftman in an ambush laid against troops of 271 Detachment, Birnin Gwari,by armed bandits ...
Read More »Presidency considers community police to tackle insecurity In South-West
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday in Osogbo, Osun State capital said that the federal government would explore community policing and neighbourhood watch programme to tackle growing insecurity in the South Western ...
Read More »Police begin manhunt for herdsmen vigilantes in Ondo as Ogun, OPC talk tough
The Ondo State Police Command on Tuesday said it had begun manhunt for the for the reported illegal herdsmen vigilante groups in the state ...
Read More »U.S imposes visa ban on Nigerian election riggers
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had imposed visa restrictions on Nigerians it said were involved in trying to undermine democracy in presidential and parliamentary elections this year ...
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