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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday in Abeokuta urged Nigerian youths to be God-fearing and to develop good characters and values to enable them succeed as future leaders. Obasanjo made the appeal at the First Green Legacy Moments With Chief Olusegun Obasanjo On Leadership and Human Security In Africa. The programme was organised by the Centre For Human Security (CHS), …

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday confirmed Suleiman Abba as substantive Inspector General of Police. The President’s media aide, Dr. Reuben Abati made this disclosure via his Twitter handle @abati1990 on Tuesday. According to him, “At Police Council meeting today, President Jonathan confirmed Suleiman Abba as substantive Inspector General of Police.” It could be recalled that Abba was appointed the acting …

YOLA— FEW hours after the Federal Government gave the military marching orders to flush out Boko Haram insurgents from Mubi, the commercial nerve centre and second largest town in Adamawa State, the terrorists, yesterday, defiantly renamed the town ‘Madinatul Islam’, which means the city of Islam. Four local governments of Michika, Madagali, Mubi North and Mubi South of Adamawa State …

A bomb attack has reportedly occurred in Potiskum, Yobe state. Witnesses say a suicide bomber targeting members of the Shiite group, Islamic Brotherhood of Nigeria, detonated his explosive vest, killing many instantly. A resident of the town, Adamu Mohammed, told PREMIUM TIMES over the telephone that nearly 20 persons were killed and several others injured. “My sister lost three of …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called for an independent inquiry to unravel the circumstances surrounding the apparently fake ceasefire deal announced by the Jonathan Administration on Oct. 17th, now that the sect’s leadership has described as an impostor the man with whom the phantom deal was negotiated. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity …

Benin, Edo, Nigeria – By Oladipo Airenakho. Nigeria Bar Association President, Barr. Augustine Alegeh, SAN, has described the part played by the country’s judiciary in the current impasse in the House of Representative over the defection of the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal and other similar cases as shameful and unacceptable. Augustine Alegeh, made his view known while reacting to a question …

Adamawa  – by Ahmad Sajoh Boko Haram’s recent attack on Mubi in Adamawa State has been described as one of the worst ever carried out by the insurgency, with reports that the Islamic sect hoisted their flag on the subdued and captured hometown of Nigeria’s Chief of Defense Staff, Alex Badeh. The latest attack has happened against the backdrop of …

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has called for an independent inquiry to unravel the circumstances surrounding the apparently fake ceasefire deal announced by the Jonathan Administration on October 17, now that the sect’s leadership has described as an impostor the man with whom the phantom deal was negotiated. In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity …

The political theater in Edo State is gripped by sanguin activities: An intrusive legislator was alleged to have been beaten to pulp by opponents, the legislators quarters was said to have been invaded and mayhem was let loose, party chieftains allege gun attack and counter attack on their properties and explosive devices are feared to have been introduced as political …

In what now appears to be an ego problem for Professor Atahiru Jega, National Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, his messianic pursuit of the lopsided allocation of 30,000 Polling Units, PUs, fresh strong signals suggest that his ability to deliver on successful general elections next year may be suffering a massive discount on account of the many deceptive postulations …