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For the first time in five years, the people of Borno State are being allowed to come out on the streets to celebrate Eid-el-Fitri. The state had been closed to vehicular movements during all festivities, be it Islamic and Christian, due to the Boko Haram insurgency. Many had thought they would be locked in during this year’s Eid-el-Fitri until the …

Barack Obama has delayed his planned troop withdrawal in Afghanistan, meaning there will now be 8,400 US forces in the country when he leaves office in January. The US president’s most recent estimate for that figure was 5,500. In 2012, he promised that the war would be over by 2014. In a surprise White House statement on Wednesday, Obama warned …

After months of pressure mounted by northern interests led by Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru, a former Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to be made the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the state-run oil firm, President Muhammadu Buhari finally succumbed monday when he removed Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as the corporation’s executive head. …

Elder-statesman, businessman and retired policeman, Umaru Shinkafi is dead. Shinkafi died in a hospital in London at about 4:07 p.m. Nigerian time, family sources said on Wednesday. Mr. Shinkafi, who held the traditional title of Marafan Sokoto, was a native of Zamfara State. Umaru Shinkafi He was a Federal Commissioner of Internal Affairs and a presidential aspirant in the third …

A prominent law firm is taking pre-emptive legal action against the government, following the EU referendum result, to try to ensure article 50 is not triggered without an act of parliament. Acting on behalf of an anonymous group of clients, solicitors at Mishcon de Reya have been in contact with government lawyers to seek assurances over the process, and plan …

Leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo North and Central senatorial districts of Edo state are up in battle over which zone to present the running mate to the party’s flag bearer, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. APC leaders in the Central are pushing for the position on the claim that since the speakership was taken away from them and …

The Central Bank of Nigeria has taken over the Board and management of Skye Bank Plc after the lender failed to meet the regulator’s minimum key liquidity and capital adequacy ratios. The Central Bank Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this at a news conference, which was held at the CBN’s head office in Lagos. Emefiele said the apex bank had …

The Libertarian candidate for president, Gary Johnson, said on Sunday Donald Trump’s recent comments were “clearly” racist, a day after the presumptive Republican nominee faced accusations of antisemitism and in the same week that he said he would consider firing government employees who wear hijabs. “He has said 100 things that would disqualify anyone else from running for president but …

Justice Binta Murtala Nyako of a federal high court in Abuja has struck out the names of former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and a businessman, Chief Kolawole Akanni Aluko, from the criminal charges filed against them While Madueke is in the United Kingdom, Akanni -Aluko is said to be at large. Justice Nyako struck out their names after …

The Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt this morning declared the May 21 national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) legal and that its decisions did not violate any known law or the constitution of the party. Delivering judgment on a suit brought before him by the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP, the Presiding Judge, Justice Mohammed …