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The Inspector General of Police (I-G), Abubakar Adamu says community policing initiative will complement Nigeria police efforts in combating crimes and issues bothering on the activities of bandits, terrorists, kidnappers and militants. Adamu said this shortly after the submission of report by the committee on the Implementation Strategies on Strengthening Internal Security Framework and Community Policing in Nigeria on Friday …

…Says it’ll weaken purchasing power, worsen poverty level Organised Labour has on Friday rejected government planned increase in Value Added Tax, VAT, from 5 % to 7.2 %, describing the planned increase as anti-people and anti-development. Speaking through the Union Labour Congress of Nigeria, ULC, Labour asked government to jettison the plan as it would not only weaken the citizens …

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has again boasted, saying that nobody can stop his group’s mission of restoring the sovereign state of Biafra. Kanu who delivered his message through a statement he personally signed, but made available to newsmen through IPOB’s Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, thanked the Eureopean Parliament for giving …

President Muhammadu Buhari  has on Thursday assured Nigerians that the Federal Government will not inflict additional hardship on citizens, rather it will keep seeking ways to ameliorate their sufferings and create a more enabling environment for everyone to thrive. Disclosing this in a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, President Buhari said …

According to him, “I am happy that I can defend myself very effectively on this issue. The APC party leader is my witness. Since the coming into power of this administration I have handed over the treasury to women. “Even at household level, you hand over the money to women to manage. It can be taken to the level of …

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole says the party is ready for the next round of legal battle with Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Oshiohmole made this known when he responded to questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Thursday. The PDP had on Wednesday vowed to appeal the judgment …

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has explained that he congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari after the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal confirmed his election because it is better to offer public congratulations than visit the President at night. Wike saidunlike some governors of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who visit President Buhari at night,  he made his declaration public  because  it came from …

…maintains N’Assembly can’t direct Obaseki on fresh proclamation  …’issuing fresh proclamation amounts to extending members’ tenure’ Nigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has declared that the National Assembly does not have the power to take over the functions of Edo State House of Assembly or any other House of Assembly in the country. The Court also ruled that …

…says verdict well-deserved Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, describing the verdict of the tribunal as well-deserved. The tribunal verdict, ­delivered by its Chairman, Garba Mohammed, in its ruling on Wednesday, dismissed the petition by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, …

One of the lawyers to Atiku Abubakar has said that the opposition presidential candidate will appeal Wednesday’s ruling of the presidential election petition tribunal. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the election tribunal on Wednesday dismissed the petition by Mr Abubakar and his party, PDP. The five-member panel of the tribunal unanimously ruled to dismissed the petition, saying the petitioners did not …