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President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele to provide a detailed submission on amount of monies recovered so far by the anti-graft agencies, in its anti-corruption war, since …

In world capitals, at the United Nations and in military briefings, leaders spent the weekend trying to deduce what doctrine might lie behind the first direct attack by the US on the forces of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. On Sunday, the White House articulated Donald Trump’s message: your move, world. Three of Trump’s top officials delivered that message to the …

Is regime change in Syria back on the US agenda? For most of Syria’s six-year civil war the US has been pushing for the departure of Bashar al-Assad, even if former president Barack Obama was unwilling to use military options to remove him. Donald Trump had conspicuously backed away from that stance, with his administration describing Assad’s rule as “political …

In the quiet streets of Khan Sheikun this week, as people wept for and buried the dead from a sarin attack, they also braced for the sound of warplanes in the skies above them, and the next attack. On Saturday the planes came back, killing a woman and injuring one other person, monitoring groups said. It was not immediately clear …

A warship armed with cruise missiles has joined the Russian battlegroup off the coast of Syria as part of Moscow’s response to US cruise missile strikes on the Syrian airbase of Shayrat. Russia’s angry declarations, a world away from hopes of a rapprochement voiced in Washington and Moscow after Donald Trump’s election, have overshadowed US secretary of state Rex Tillerson’s …

The US says it has put Bashar al-Assad on notice that it will take further military action if he uses chemical weapons again, while appearing to back away from wider military involvement in the Syrian conflict, less than 24 hours after launching Tomahawk missiles at a regime airbase. “The United States will no longer wait for Assad to use chemical …

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has challenged state governors to disclose how much they collect as security votes and how they have utilised monthly allocations for local government councils. Dogara said the leadership of the National Assembly on its part has directed its bureaucracy to publish what members collect in order to put to rest the allegation …

LAST week, old members of the Sigma Club of the University of Ibadan, held a dinner in honour of President General of the Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, in Lagos. At the event, some eminent Nigerians such as Elder Statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark; former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka …

Chinese president Xi Jinping has invited Donald Trump to pay a state visit to China later this year during a intensely choreographed visit to the billionaire’s Florida estate that was shunted from the headlines by the airstrikes on Syria. Beijing had hoped to use the two-day summit to burnish Xi’s credentials as a powerful world leader who had successfully tamed …

Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Thursday observed that there were about three million out of school children, roaming the streets of the state, as Almajirai – pupils of Quranic schools converted to beggars. He noted however that most of such kids were found out to be from neighboring states and some countries in West Africa. “What we discovered from …