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The Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has acknowledged the cooperation of members of the Lake Chad Basin Commission, LCBC, and international partners in the fight against boko haram terrorists. President Buhari made the call at the 2nd Regional Security Summit which ended in Abuja. The Summit was a follow up to the Paris Summit of May 2014. President Buhari emphasized that …

The presumptive Republican candidate is fighting back after a weekend taking heat over his attitude to women. In doing so, he picked a fight with the British prime minister, David Cameron, and new London mayor Sadiq Khan. The Guardian takes a look at the Trump universe. Trump also told British interviewer Piers Morgan that immigration to the UK as a …

US Secretary of State, John Kerry, made this pledge during the Anti-corruption Summit Plenary at Lancaster House London, United Kingdom and reassured the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government that it would return at least $350m of stolen money from Nigeria. He said, “This money goes somewhere, folks. When I read that tens of billions of dollars were stolen from President …

Nigerians have started stockpiling food ahead of the ultimatum issued by the Nigeria Labour Congress and the coalition of the civil society organisations that petrol price be reverted to N86.50 or all workers would embark on a strike. On Saturday, the organised labour again repeated that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government had till Tuesday night to reverse the increase …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday admitted that the issue of security in Nigeria and in the world has been harrowing. He lamented that technology had also been contributing to the deteriorating security situation across the globe. Buhari said this during a joint press conference he addressed with visiting President Francois Hollande of France at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Hollande is …

Organised labour, yesterday, insisted it would shut down the economy from Wednesday, May 18, should the Federal Government fail to revert the pump price of petrol to the pre-May 11 price of N86.50, among other demands, by midnight of Tuesday, May 17. The declaration was made on a day indications emerged that government was disposed to amiable settlement of the …

By Oladipo Airenakho In a dramatic twist, a front runner in Edo State governorship race on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Barrister Osarodion Ogie has bowed to pressure to drop his ambition. Barr. Ogie has subsequently been appointed the Director-General of the governorship campaign organization of his former rival, Dr. Godwin Obaseki. The announcement was made by …

By Oladipo Airenakho Seasoned investment guru and former member of Nigeria’s Presidential Committee on the reorganization of the country’s pension scheme, Dr. Godwin Obaseki, has formally declared his intention to aspire for the governorship seat of Edo State. He made the declaration before a mammoth crowd of All Progressives Congress (APC) supporters, friends, political and professional colleagues, including newly installed …

One of the plazas being built at Itoku Market Abeokuta by the Ogun State Government collapsed early Thursday morning. Four of the workers had so far been retrieved by rescue workers from under the rubble of the four-storey building. The workers sustained serious injuries and had been rushed to the hospital, even as rescue operations continue. the plazas being built …

The Federal Government on Friday alerted Nigerians to the outbreak of a killer disease known as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome in the country. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, who announced the outbreak of the disease at a news conference in Abuja, said the disease had killed one person. He added that another person affected by the disease was responding to …