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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, advised President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, to engage her husband privately and raise her concerns about the government’s policies. Mrs Buhari has publicly criticised many of the policies of the government headed by her husband, who just won a second term in office, several times in the past, including threatening not to work for …

An army commander and six soldiers are currently missing after two bases of the Nigerian military in Borno State came under Boko Haram attack on Saturday, with one soldier feared dead. There was also a loss of “unquantifiable” combat equipment in the wake of the terrorists’ offensive, PREMIUM TIMES has been told. The terrorists attacked troops of 192 Battalion deployed …

President Muhammadu Buhari has not approved the formation of state police structures as being reported by some newspapers, the Presidency said on Monday. A statement signed by presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said President Buhari Monday rather received a report on the reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). It said the president requested that the report be studied and a …

The ever-pressing need to break the ground in fast-tracking industrialisation and economic diversification has led many state governments to tinker with diverse industrial models, with a number of them recording negligible successes. This trial and error approach has led to the creation of industrial clusters or zones that dot the country, all of which, analysts say, are boggled with numerous …

Immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has absolved himself of allegations of being behind the current travails of his successor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, describing the former labour leader as a master of the art of deception and author of confusion. He described the allegations as “ludicrous and infantile” as well as “an …

Suspected bandits on Sunday opened fire on the motorcade of the Zamfara governor, Bello Matawalle, who was on his way to condole with victims of a previous attack on a community in Gusau Local Government, witnesses have told PREMIUM TIMES. The witnesses said the governor’s convoy came under attack on Sunday evening while he was enroute Lilo community to sympathise …

By MIKE OSAROGIAGBON Edo State Commissioner of Police, Dan Mallam Mohammed has warned youths in the state that the ban on Community Development Associations (CDA) is still in force, as anyone or group who under any guise engages in activities contrary to the law would be arrested and prosecuted accordingly. The police chief stated this while reacting to alleged activities …

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara,  has yet joined the race for the Speakership of the Ninth National  Assembly, his media aide,  Turaki Hassan, has said.Hassan in a statement in Abuja on Sunday described those campaigning for Dogara on social media as mischief makers. The statement read in part,  “We wish to distance the Speaker from the …

The desire of the All Progressives Congress to go into the elections of a new leadership of the National Assembly as a united house has put on hold threats to the position of Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman of the ruling party, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt. It was learnt that party leaders across geo-political zones were reaching out to one another on …

Saturday Vanguard has reliably gathered that some All Progressives Congress, APC, Senators, and members of the House Representatives have concluded plans to work against the party’s candidates for the positions of the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives. The move which had been at its teething stage before now was said to have been emboldened by the …