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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has praised Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo for his loyalty and dedication to duty, especially in supervising the nation’s economy. President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo This, according to him, involves regular interface with heads of public and private institutions, and other government structures to ensure “synergy and harmony that put the …

*Adds: The President wants results *VP chairs inaugural meeting of Presidential Committee on the Repatriation, Returns and Resettlement of Displaced Persons in the North-East Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the safe return of Nigerians displaced by the insurgency in the North-East from Cameroon, Niger and Chad would be treated as an emergency assignment Prof. Osinbajo stated …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Monday poured encomiums on the immediate past Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Philip Ogbadu, saluting his professionalism and dedication to duty, which according to him, culminated in improved security in the state. CP Ogbadu recently retired as a Commissioner of Police in the state. He assumed duty in Edo State on …

Ukraine and Russia will engage in talks aimed at negotiating a cease-fire and safe passage for civilian evacuations on Monday, a Ukraine official said, after the evacuation of the southeastern city of Mariupol was halted. The Ukrainian president’s office said Saturday that Russia continued shelling the area in violation of a cease-fire. The decision to halt the evacuations roughly two …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has produced the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, before the Federal High Court in Abuja for his arraignment on drug trafficking charge. Kyari, who was brought before the court by armed operatives of the agency, is currently taking his plea to an eight-count charge that was preferred against him and …

Some Nigerian women are set to hold another protest at the National Assembly on Tuesday. The demonstration which some have described as the “mother of all protests” is aimed at calling on the federal lawmakers to reconsider all the gender bills that were rejected during the Constitution amendment last week. The co-convener of Womanifesto, Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, made this known during …

• Nigeria could spend N360bn monthly on subsidy, says World Bank The Country Director, World Bank, Shubham Chaudhuri, says Nigeria’s decision to postpone the full deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry by 18 months may cost the country over N4tn in subsidy payments on petrol in 2022. He said this when he led some executives of the …

The Federal Government has expressed its disapproval of the ongoing registration of Nigerian citizens volunteering to join the Ukrainian Army to resist the invasion of the country by Russia. Over 150 Nigerians have volunteered to be recruited after Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, urged people around the world to join the fight. But reacting in a statement on Monday, the Spokesperson …

Some commercial transporters have ascribed the increase in transportation fare to the increase in the price of Petrol (PMS) at filling stations in the state. Some transporters made the disclosure in a separate interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday. One of the commercial drivers, Chidi Emeka, who operates from Mushin to CMS, said he …

Washington (CNN) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that the US has seen reports of Russian abuses in Ukraine that “would constitute a war crime” and that the Biden administration is committed to supporting investigations into the country’s actions. “We’ve seen very credible reports of deliberate attacks on civilians, which would constitute a war crime. We’ve seen very …