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Confidants of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), are currently waiting for him to reveal his preferred aspirant among the presidential hopefuls in the ruling All Progressives Congress, according to Sunday PUNCH. This, according to findings, explains why the confidants, comprising serving ministers, close aides and his kitchen cabinet, could not make any open commitment to any of the …

BY MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Benin City, Nigeria – A septuagenarian widow, Mrs. Rebecca Omorodion and her tenants have been rendered homeless after fire destroyed her residential building, cash and household property worth millions of Naira in Benin City, last Friday. It was gathered that the fire started in one of the rooms after electricity was restored to the area about 5pm …

As jostling for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential ticket gets tougher, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has warned his supporters against insulting or abusing APC National Leader and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Osinbajo served as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos under Tinubu. Both men are eyeing the APC 2023 presidential ticket, …

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has given the management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund(NSITF) a January 2022 ultimatum to re-adjust the staff salary structure of the fund. The Minister who addressed the closing ceremony of its two-day Management Performance Review, Saturday, at the Nigeria Airforce Centre, Abuja also gave the agency three months to …

• Buhari’s Clueless Regime Has Mortgaged Nigeria’s Future With Indebtedness — Ayu Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, foreclosed any chance of returning to partisan politics, insisting that no amount of persuasion would make him rescind his decision, which is final. Obasanjo who said that he had left party politics for good, however, noted that he would continue to contribute his …

Some members of the House of Representatives and the National Assembly, have disclosed that they had not stopped on the process of amending the country’s 1999 constitution, assuring Nigerians that the amended document  would be ready before the end of the ninth national assembly. While speaking with journalists in Ibadan yesterday, at a town hall meeting with their constituents, the …

• Wants National Interest To Override Personal Aggrandisement Coalition of Civil Society Groups (CCAG) in Nigeria has cautioned that the current security situation and supremacy of a region dominating the affairs of the country is affecting the nation’s unity. President of CCSG, Bassey Etuk Williams, who stated this, in Abuja, during a world conference, vowed the body would deploy its …

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has stressed the need for constant dialogue among the various ethnic nationalities in Nigeria as a means of taking the advantages of the country’s diversities.Osinbajo gave the charge in Abuja Thursday night at the 10th anniversary of UFUK Dialogue Foundation, an organisation devoted to the promotion of dialogue and a culture of peaceful co-existence. This is contained …

Following threats by its workers to embark on a three-day warning strike this week, the Police Service Commission has summoned the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to a meeting on the ongoing recruitment of 10,000 constables. It was learnt that the PSC management agreed during their meeting to meet with the IGP to seek the way forward on the workers’ …

*Says campaigns start 90 days to elections *Vows to sanction violators of extant rules Worried by the proliferation of billboards and campaign posters of some political parties and aspirants across the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned the parties and their various aspirants to wait for the official commencement of campaigns as provided by the law. The …