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The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has said that vehicle number plates bearing `Peace Ambassador’ are illegal. Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, the Corps Marshal of the commission, disclosed this on Thursday while declaring open a workshop for Motor Licencing Authority Officials. “ We have ordered that any Peace Ambassador number plate seen on a vehicle, such vehicle should be impounded because …

Nigeria is a country where human lives have no value; where if you have no money or are not influential you can be denied medical treatment and care, and therefore may die. On daily basis people die as a result of this, or misdiagnosis without any consequence on the part of the medical practitioners. What you are about to read …

BENIN—A veteran journalist and chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State, Mr. Solomon Odemwingie, has described Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a governorship aspirant of the party, as a political jewel of inestimable value to the entire people of Edo State. Odemwingie stated this in Benin, while reacting to criticisms against Ize-Iyamu by those he described as political sycophants, some …

It has emerged that groups of alleged herdsmen or gangs operating in the middle belt states of Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba and even those that recently killed scores of people in Zamfara state, are Boko Haram sect members. This development came to light following the confessions of some arrested Fulani herdsmen that took part in the Killings and burning of houses in Wukari, Taraba state, they disclosed …

ABUJA—Embattled former Finance Minister, Senator Esther Nenadi Usman, has returned N140 million out of the N2.5 billion she allegedly received from the office of the former National Security Adviser ahead of the 2015 Presidential elections. In addition, the former Senator, who served as the Director of Finance for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Campaign Organisation, has surrendered two of …

The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers on Tuesday reacted to the claim of fuel diversion by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, describing it as a cover-up for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s inefficiency in providing adequate supply. Kachikwu had on Monday said trucks conveying petrol were being diverted from Lagos to Cameroon …

A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, on Monday said he would contest the nation’s Presidency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2019. Lamido made this known to newsmen in his village, Bamainain, which is located in the Birnin-Kudu Local Government Area of the state. He, however, said the party’s ticket would not be given to …

ABUJA – At last, the Executive arm of the government and the National Assembly have resolved their lingering face-off over the 2016 budget, giving hope that any moment from now, president Mohammed would sign the document into law. A truce was brokered between the two arms of government at a meeting between the president, vice president Yemi Osinbajo and the …

The Federal Government, on Tuesday, expressed worry over incessant clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in some sections of the country. The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, who disclosed this on Tuesday, in Abuja, when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, said “Mr President sends me a memo almost every week asking me what we …

Leaders of Pan -Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Tuesday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent action towards the series of attack by the Fulani herdsmen across the states of the country. The group, which made this call after its monthly meeting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, specifically condemned the latest killing of over 40 Nigerians by the …