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Warns against any methods that negate Buhari’s Community Policing The Nigeria military has vowed that it will not allow any individual or group to jeopardize the sovereignty and stability of Nigeria’s territorial integrity. The military also told relevant stakeholders to join hands with the armed forces and intelligence agencies to ensure that Nigeria is secured and not to look for …

Alao-Akala, Daniel, Mimiko, others fume over FG’s oppositionGroup gives Tinubu 24 hours to speak out A number of ex-South-West governors have thrown their weight behind Operation Amotekun, declaring that the new security outfit is an answer to the yearnings of the people of the region. According to them, many lives have been lost due to a  spate of killings,  robberies and …

Support for outfit sign of public rumblings, says Odigie-Oyegun Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has said that Amotekun, a security outfit by the governors of the South-west states, is a logical end product of President Muhammadu Buhari’s vision on community policing. Also, the immediate past chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has described the creation of …

Says Muhammad, others must recuse themselves from its outstanding cases The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) thursday asked the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, to resign and also demanded a review and reversal of the Supreme Court judgment on the Imo State governorship election that nullified the election of its Hon. Emeka Ihedioha and ordered his replacement by …

Nnewi—The leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday, said the administration of President Muhamadu Buhari was still fighting a war against the Igbo people as if Nigerian Civil War has not ended. According to Kanu, to President Buhari and those in the seat of power, the Nigerian-Biafra war has not ended, as “they are still fighting …

…Says ‘Ize-Iyamu currently charged by EFCC for N700m fraud’ … ‘Airhiavbere under suspension from APC’ Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed a press conference held by members of the proscribed group, the Edo Peoples Movement, saying their agitations are fueled by greed and avarice. Further discrediting their submissions, Chairman of the APC, Edo State, Barr. …

Earlier today, a group of professional governorship aspirants held a press conference in the NUJ conference center in Benin City. In a feeble attempt to sound as statesmen, they made and classified their party issues as Edo state problem.  I condemn in all its ramifications the loose use of “restore peace and unity among Edo people once again”. Edo people …

Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has been accused of the attempt to close the political space and shut the doors against the 2020 potential contestants for the office of the Governor of the state.   Rt. Hon. Dr. Pius E. Odubu, former Deputy Governor of Edo State; Maj. Gen. Charles Airhivbere (Rtd), former Governorship Candidate; Engr. Christopher Ogiemwonyi, former Minister …

LAGOS—The  Lagos State government, yesterday, said that it pulled down the Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s statue at Allen Roundabout for the improvement of road infrastructure and to ease traffic gridlock in the state. Gboyega Akosile, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, told  PREMIUM TIMES  that the roundabout had been identified as the cause of traffic gridlock in the area and there …

The Federal Government has begun the implementation of some aspects of the Finance Act with the imposition of 7.5 per cent Value Added Tax on government transactions. The Accountant-General of the Federation, Alhaji Ahmed Idris, confirmed the development in an interview with journalists on Wednesday in Abuja. The move followed the signing of the finance bill into law on Monday …