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Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State on Thursday threw his weights behind the call on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Yari, declared his support for emergency while addressing journalists in Gusau, the state capital. The governor returned to Zamfara on Thursday from Saudi Arabia …

Heavy fighting at a multinational military base in Baga, Borno State, has seen the insurgent group, Boko Haram, allegedly take control of the town, several security sources have told PREMIUM TIMES. The army, however, denied the narrative, saying the attack occured, but was successfully repelled. Baga, a fishing community, fell to the group in 2015 but was retaken by the …

The police on Wednesday embarked on what appeared an effort to deceive Nigerians, issuing a haphazard denial to a PREMIUM TIMES story that detailed the disappearance of 167 police officers who were set to be deployed in active combat operation against Boko Haram fighters. The fleeing officers, who have now been declared wanted with potentially grave consequences if found, were amongst the 2,000 …

The Nigeria Police Force will on Thursday (today) parade some suspects involved in the murder of the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.), The PUNCH has learnt. The suspects will be paraded at the headquarters of the NPF in Abuja on Thursday. The investigation involved men of the Nigerian Air Force, the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence …

President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration is slow in fighting corruption because the system is slow. The president said this when he received the Federal Capital Territory community, who paid him Christmas homage at his official residence on Tuesday in Abuja. Mr Buhari, who apparently was reacting to those allegedly accusing his administration of being too slow in tackling the nation’s …

The 2019 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has said the war on corruption by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government is selective, saying his government will use technology to end corruption if elected. Mr Sowore, who spoke during a TV programme tagged “Roadmap 2019” on Channels TV on Monday night, said he will use ‘digital tools …

The Force Headquarters has ordered the arrest and prosecution of 190 riot policemen who absconded from the ongoing training at the Special Forces School, Buni-Yadi, Yobe State. The fleeing policemen were part of the 2,000 Police Mobile Officers mobilised for the training preparatory to their deployment for combat against Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East. They were deployed by the …

Edo State government delegation on Monday, visited the Oba of Benin, His Royal Majesty, Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II to felicitate with the Benin Monarch at the Ugie Ewere ceremony in Benin City. The Ugie Ewere ceremony, a component of  the high profile Igue Festival, is celebrated annually, where the Oba receives the Ewere leaf, …

Owed over 12 months’ allowances, hundreds of Nigerian students on federal government scholarshipin Morocco have cried out for help. They say many of them now go cap in hand, begging to survive. Some of the students, who are ashamed of begging on the streets, have taken to social media to beg their host communities for assistance. The students, who spoke with …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it may not honour further calls by the federal government for a meeting on the way forward over the current strike by its members. The union’s National President, Biodun Ogunyemi, said this on the sideline of a news conference on the update of the union’s struggle to salvage the country’s public universities …