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Nigeria’s Army Council on Monday December 3, 2018 approved the promotion of some senior officers of the Military Force to the ranks of Major Generals, Brigadier Generals, Colonels and a Lieutenant Colonel, respectively. The promotion was announced in a press statement signed by the Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman. A breakdown of the promotion beneficiaries …

Three mortuary attendants, whom police accused of cutting off the two wrists and the heart of a dead woman, were on Thursday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ court in Lagos State of Nigeria. The police charged Micheal Olusegun, 65; Oluseyi Olamade, 41; and Adetunji Aliyu, 45, with two counts of conspiracy and misconduct with regards to a corpse. The …

President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, has said that the president would rather prefer to lose than rig the 2019 election. Mr. Adesina, who gave the statement while appearing on a programme on Arise TV, corroborated President Buhari’s stand to the citizens and the international community that the 2019 elections will be free and fair. Adesina ensured that his principal …

Members of the House of Representatives have approved June 12 as Nigeria’s new Democracy Day. The members approved this on Thursday while considering a report on “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Public Holidays Act, Cap. P40, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to bring the Act in tandem with the current realities and exigencies of the …

The Wuse Zone 2 Chief Magistrate’s Court in Abuja on Thursday freed Deji Adeyanju on bail, two days after the political activist was arraigned on a petition filed by Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai. The bail terms set by Idayat Akanni, the magistrate, included two level-12 civil servants and N500,000 bond. Ariyo-Dare Atoye, Mr Adeyanju’s friend, told PREMIUM TIMES …

Nineteen out of the 27 lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assembly have joined Action Alliance, denouncing their memberships of the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party respectively. The Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Acho Ihim, who read the notice of defection signed by the lawmakers during plenary on Thursday evening, also announced that he had …

The House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to cancel the privatisation of the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited and revive it with the loot recovered from a former military dictator, the late Gen. Sani Abacha. Also, the lower chamber of the National Assembly asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate and prosecute owners of the privatised company, …

About 70 per cent of children born in Nigeria are not registered, according to the nation’s National Population Commission (NPopC)’s Drector in Bauchi, Mallam Musa Rashid. Rashid made the disclosure on Thursday at an on-going sensitization workshop on Birth Registration in Bauchi. The director explained that only 30 per cent of pregnant women visited health centers to deliver of their …

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday preside over a `Special’ Federal Executive Council meeting to deliberate solely on 2019 draft budget proposal. Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, revealed this when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the FEC meeting …

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has said with the popularity of the APC in Imo and Ogun States, the party would win the 2019 elections despite the alleged anti-party activities of their governors. He described the governors as poor students of their own history who had forgotten they lost elections before winning on the platform …