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Former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), on Saturday, re-echoed his support for a two-party system, and declared that it was the best option toward deepening democracy. Babangida spoke in Minna, the Niger State capital, when the Strategy and Inter-Party Affairs Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presented its report on how to move the party forward, to him. …

AS the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Thursday, released time table for 2019 general elections, over 300, 000 youths under the auspices of Concerned Nigerian Youth Development Organisation, CNYDO, have declared their support and endorsement for former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, to the next President come 2019. This was contained in statement released on Friday and …

The National Association Of Nigerian Students NANS, has applauded the decision of the Federal High court in Abuja, which struck out a suit instituted by Senator Umaru Dahiru, seeking for the removal of Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal. The National Deputy President of NANS, Comrade Basheer Gorau made this known, shortly after a stakeholders’ meeting in Sokoto. His words: …

The attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has asked for the resignations of 46 US attorneys who were appointed during the prior presidential administration, the justice department said on Friday. Many of the federal prosecutors who were nominated by Barack Obama have already left their positions, but the nearly four dozen who stayed on in the first weeks of the Trump administration …

Donald Trump was unaware his former national security adviser Michael Flynn was working as a “foreign agent” when he gave him the job, according to his press secretary. “I don’t believe that was known,” said Sean Spicer, when asked by reporters at his regular press briefing on Thursday. Flynn resigned in February after just four weeks as national security adviser …

Bernie Sanders has launched a withering attack on Donald Trump, accusing him of being a pathological liar who is driving America towards authoritarianism. In an interview with the Guardian, the independent senator from Vermont, who waged a spirited campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, gave a bleak appraisal of the new White House and its intentions. He warned …

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will send a letter to parliament next week to formally resume power, after nearly two months away on medical leave, his spokesman said on Friday. He said he will not resume power immediately, instead leave his vice in charge. Femi Adesina said in a tweet that the letter to the National Assembly will be sent on …

President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is pleased to be back in Nigeria. In his first meeting with top government officials led by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa Friday morning, after he returned from medical vacation, President Buhari said, ” I am pleased I am back, I am feeling much better now.”   (Punch)

President Muhammadu Buhari has landed at the Aso Presidential Villa, Abuja helipad after some 51 days vacation in London United Kingdom. His chopper talked ground at about 8:42 am on Friday. Meanwhile, as early as 7:00am, some key officials of his government were already gathered at the Aso Villa Helipad to receive him. Among officials were Vice President,Yemi Osinbajo,Chief of …

Brig-Gen. Samuel Ogbemudia the two-term governor of the defunct Bendel State who raised the benchmark of governance and laid the infrastructure for development in Edo and Delta States has died at 84. General Ogbemudia Ogbemudia died in Benin on Thursday night at about 11.00 p.m. reliable sources close to him disclosed last night. Ogbemudia had a very successful military career …