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The acting Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Olufemi Oluyede, visited the 8 Division of the Nigerian Army in Sokoto on Sunday as part of efforts to combat the new terror group, Lukarawa. Olukoyede ordered the troops to crush the new terror group which was reportedly inducing youths in the state into its fold. The Defence Headquarters had last week …

Amid concerns over the delay in the submission of the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP), the templates for the 2025 Budget, the Senate has stated that the expeditious passage lies with the diligence, or otherwise, of the Executive arm of government. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Sani Musa, made the clarification on Friday …

 A Niger Delta-based group, South-South Renewed Call 4 Resource Control (SSRC-4RC), yesterday pleaded with President Bola Tinubu to play the statesman’s role and do what is needed to bring resolution to the crises in Rivers State and restore its federal allocation. While emphasising the role the federal government can play in bringing peace to River State, the group went down …

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, said Nigeria is participating in the joint Arab-Islamic Summit because of its proximity and longstanding relationship with the Middle East. The summit will commence on Monday, 11 November 2024, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. During the summit, President Tinubu is expected to address the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict, and emphasise Nigeria’s call for an …

The immediate former Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Abdullahi Gwarzo, has revealed that his dismissal by President Bola Tinubu was politically motivated rather than due to any shortcomings in his ministerial performance. The former minister added that the President should have chosen the 2023 All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Kano State, Nasiru Gawuna, as his replacement. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has said he wouldn’t be a dictator — “except for Day 1.” According to his own statements, he’s got a lot to do on that first day in the White House. According to report by Associated Press, his list includes starting up the mass deportation of migrants, rolling back Biden administration policies on education, reshaping …

Female representation among candidates is at its lowest in three election cycles in Ondo and there is no female governorship candidate Nigeria was on the cusp of electing a female state governor twice but did not pull it off on both occasions. In 2015, the election petition tribunal declared the late Aisha Alhassan (Mama Taraba) the winner of the Taraba …

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to head the World Trade Organization, is uncontested in seeking another term, the group’s chair announced on Saturday. The 70-year-old director-general of the WTO — whose first mandate was blocked for months by US president-elect Donald Trump during his first stint in office — announced in September that she was running for …

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has said he is not a member of any political party. He described himself as “a no-party statesman”. Also, he raised the alarm that Nigerians were facing several challenges at the moment, but preached hope and optimism. Obasanjo said these today in Abuja during a thanksgiving service at the Methodist Church Nigeria, Cathedral of Unity, …

Days ago, Trump who defeated Vice-President, Kamala Harris in the tight presidential contest, had selected his campaign manager, Susie Wiles, to serve as his chief of staff.  Susie Wiles, the newly announced Chief of Staff to United States’ President-elect, Donald Trump, was co-chair of a lobbying firm hired by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in 2019 and the two …