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The federal government has declared Friday, April 14 and Monday, April 17, 2017 as public holidays to mark the Good Friday and Easter celebrations. The Minister of Interior, Lt Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd), who made the declaration on behalf of the federal government, enjoined Christian faithful and Nigerians in general to extend the spiritual benefits of Easter, which are …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday forwarded names of five nominees to the Senate for confirmation as non-executive directors of the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria. According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the nominees were picked from five geopolitical zones of the country. The statement read, “In …

A huge red carpet was rolled out on the tarmac of the Moscow airport where Rex Tillerson’s plane touched down, but it was unlikely Russia would similarly welcome his calls for it to stop backing Bashar al-Assad in Syria. While the US secretary of state’s decision to skip a Nato summit and visit Moscow initially seemed to highlight the White …

By Bob Majiri Oghene Etemiku Nigerian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have advised President Muhammadu Buhari to imbibe the practice of submitting his annual appropriation bill to the National Assembly early enough to give members the opportunity to scrutinise and pass the budget in good time. The suggestion was made on Tuesday during a workshop for CSOs on Open Government Partnership (OGP) …

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said that the Federal Government has called on Nigerians not to be discouraged by the recent setbacks in the war against corruption, promising that the serial negative outcome of corruption cases that were recorded at the high court level would not dampen the anti-graft battle. Lai Mohammed in a statement issued …

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has warned that Nigeria would be plunged into deep trouble if the present war against corruption was not won. He said that corruption was fiercely waging reprisal attacks in the States, but assured the public that President Muhammadu Buhari was committed to sustaining the anti-corruption fight to ensure that the system was cleaned up and government …

Permit me to share a scholarly, revealing and I daresay disturbing intervention which was sent to me by a friend. The author wishes to remain anonymous. He wrote as follows: “The disruptive power of the Hausa-Fulani cabal is a structural reality and will only get worse, no matter where the President of Nigeria comes from. It is a seven-fold yoke …

Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, yesterday, said that he would rather offend man than God in this his vision to turn the state to the Dubai of Nigeria. The governor, who stated this when he received members of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Edo State, said that his becoming the governor of the …

Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the House of Representatives, today through his spokesperson, Turaki Hissan released his pay slips for six months. Yakubu Dogara The documents showed the breakdown of the speaker’s salary for October, November, December 2016 and January, February, March 2017. However, from the document it is obvious that, Dogara earns about N300, 000 after the deduction of taxes.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday blamed the tension between the executive and the legislature on weak party structures, saying that it was not acceptable for any lawmaker to create roadblocks in the path of programmes for which a party was elected into power. The vice-president said this in Abuja at an event organised by the National Institute for Agency and …