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The Presidency, yesterday, charged those against the administration’s ranching and colony programmes for herdsmen to rethink, noting that they are better off living with the ranches and colonies than dying through the persisting conflicts. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, speaking on an AIT morning programme in response to a question on ancestral attachments …

French President, Emmanuel Macron, has urged Nigerian youths to get involved with politics to change the narrative of the country. Macron, while describing politics as important, said only Nigerians could change their image before the comity of nations. The French President, who was accompanied by Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, gave the challenge during a visit to the Afrika …

Nigeria and France yesterday signed a number of agreement s on projects worth $475 million. The agreements were signed in Abuja after a meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and Fremch President Emmanuel Macron at the Presidential Villa. The meeting also took far-reaching decisions on security and the economy. The agreements centre on French assistance to the tune of $475 million …

A former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, is now a bona fide staff of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), as he inspected his office space at the institution’s Abeokuta Study Centre in Ogun State on Tuesday, in his capacity as a facilitator. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Abdalla Adamu, had soon after the former president’s graduation with PhD …

Senator Shehu Sani (APC, Kaduna) has revealed plans by aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State to leave the party. He told reporters in Abuja, on Tuesday, that the new APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole assumed office at a time it had become too late to reconcile them with the party. Sani said, “I wish Adams has …

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has advised former President Olusegun Obasanjo to desist from struggling to restore Nigeria to the path of sanity and moderate rectitude, describing him as ‘objectively unfitted’ for the role. He urged him to instead head for a monastery. Soyinka said, “…I know that deep inside, there is a soakaway pond of personal insecurity struggling to …

…Obaseki urges job seekers to be circumspect of recruitment centres Edo State government has declared the recruitment activities of KAI Environmental, a consulting firm in the state, as fraudulent and therefore distanced itself from the company, vowing to bring perpetrators to justice. The government alleged that the firm has been collecting money from unsuspecting job seekers in the state with …

…36 CEOs of leading global auto brands will arrive Benin Wednesday Efforts by the Godwin Obaseki-led administration to harness the vast economic opportunities in the global auto industry through the state’s economic diversification strategy have begun yielding result as 36 chief executive officers of leading global auto brands and component suppliers, will arrive Benin City on Wednesday. The high-profile meeting …

Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), through its Monitoring of Recovered Assets in Nigeria with Transparency and Accountability (MANTRA) project recently held a Citizens’ Dialogue meeting in Abuja to further chart a course on how best the $322.5m recovered Abacha loot can be utilised Part of the purpose of the plan is also to prevent barefaced looting in …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd). Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu in a judgment on Monday said Dasuki’s continued detention by the state, without sufficient reasons, violated his right to liberty. The judgement was on a fundamental rights enforcement application by Dasuki, who has been in the custody …