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The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Friday summoned top commanders of the service to the Army headquarters for an emergency security meeting especially on the recent allegation that some top officers of the service approached a militant group to solicit support to topple the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration. The meeting which held under the chairmanship of …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja urged Nigerian elites to show patriotism and offer more sacrifice for the good of the country. The President spoke at the breaking-of-fast dinner with retired and serving Justices of the Supreme Court at the presidential Villa, Abuja. He regretted that the elites who had benefited from the country had failed to build a …

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, in Lagos revealed why he retained the just retired Inspector-General Police, Solomon Arase when he assumed office not because of his strategy and tactics as a policeman, but because of his intellect and capacity as an operations person. This came as different speakers took turns to commend Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, at the public …

Britain has voted to leave the European Union by 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent, final results from all 382 of Britain’s local counting centres showed on Friday. The final result showed 17.4 million people had voted “Leave” and 16.1 million people had voted “Remain” in the EU membership referendum. (Vanguard)

PM announces resignation following victory for leave supporters after divisive referendum campaign David Cameron has resigned, bringing an abrupt end to his six-year premiership, after the British public took the momentous decision to reject his entreaties and turn their back on the European Union. Just a year after he clinched a surprise majority in the general election, a visibly emotional …

Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Godwin Obaseki yesterday said he decided to congratulate the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu because “I don’t play politics of bitterness”. The Director General of the Obaseki Campaign Organization, Osarodion Ogie, had in a statement congratulated Ize-Iyamu for his emergence as the PDP governorship candidate and …

All officers from the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) to Inspector-General of Police, will henceforth declare their assets, the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has declared. Idris made the statement on Thursday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd). He said that the directive was in …

Mrs Maryam Uwais, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Protection Investment, says no fewer than 8.4 million Nigerians will benefit from the Federal Government’s Social Intervention Project. Uwais made the statement on Thursday in Abuja in a presentation, “Investing in our People,’’ she made at a workshop on National Social Protection Policy Framework by Federal Ministries, Departments and …

Chaos as Speaker Paul Ryan is drowned out by chants and singing from group trying to bring an end to continued failure of Congress to tighten firearm laws. Democrats drowned out the Speaker with chants, sang We Shall Overcome on the floor of the House of Representatives and held up pictures of gun violence victims as they continued a sit-in demanding …

By Oladipo Airenakho Unknown assailants, last Sunday morning slit the throat of a 75-year old woman, Mrs. Bessy Egbeobamwonyi in Benin City, Edo State, leaving her dead beside her sleeping four-year old grandson. It was gathered that the killers broke into her apartment in the middle of the night, slit her throat, and stabbed her severally before abandoning her lifeless …