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A group, Vanguard for Peace Building and Conflict Resolution, has condemned the recent disengagement of 36 senior officers by the Defence Headquarters. In a statement sent to journalists on Wednesday, December 15, the group stated that the directive allegedly by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor will affect the fight against terrorists and bandits. The statement which was …

Ahead of the 2023 poll, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has formally dropped the hint that he would aspire to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, who had a closed-door meeting with Northern elders under the aegis of Northern Alliance Committee, yesterday in Abuja, assured that he …

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has faulted talk that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has nothing more to offer, saying it is untrue, fallacious and smacks of dirty politicking. This is as he revealed the effort of the regime in tackling insecurity which now has in addition banditry and kidnapping. This followed a statement by former …

The Department of State Security (DSS) yesterday vowed to crush sponsors of terrorism, armed banditry and kidnapping in the country. It also maintained that leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, remained hale and hearty in spite of insinuations to the contrary. Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja, Spokesman of DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, said …

Investigation By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku, Alltimepost.com Abuja Correspondent Whenever Nigerian politicians resort to thuggery, blackmail and vote buying in elections in Nigeria, journalists usually write about and criticize them to no end. In recent times however, political activity within a member of the very Fourth Estate of the Realm – the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) indicate that the journalists …

The United Kingdom has said Nigeria and 10 other countries will be removed from its travel red list from 4am on Wednesday. The move follows anger from Nigeria and other African countries, with the United Nations describing the ban on non-UK residents entering England as “travel apartheid.” The British government had on December 4 placed Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, …

Nigeria’s total public debt rose by N2.54 trillion, from N35.465 trillion in the second quarter (June 30) to N38.005 trillion ($92.626 billion) in the third quarter ending September 30. Statistics released by the Debt Management Office (DMO) indicate thatthe debt comprises total external and domestic debts of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), 36 state governments and the Federal Capital …

The House of Representatives has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for a $5.8 billion loan and grant of $10 million. Mr Buhari had in May, in a letter to the two chambers of the National Assembly, requested to borrow not more than $6.1 billion 2018–2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan to fund the 2021 budget deficit. The green chamber approved the request following …

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, on Monday announced that NNPC was currently increasing the supply of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly called cooking gas, in a bid to force down its price. Kyari, who announced this at the inauguration of a 120-metric tonnes LPG storage and bottling plant by Emadeb Energy Services Limited …

 Told of attack by armed separatists from Southern Cameroun President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with Governors of Nasarawa and Taraba States over the security challenges facing the two states. The president met separately with the governors at the State House, Abuja and was informed of the recent attack on Taraba border by Ambazonia separatists from Southern Cameroun with an …