President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to confirm Festus Okoye as National Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Mr. Okoye is among 26 new appointees the president wrote, in separate letters, to the Senate for confirmation. Buhari’s…
A Muslim group, the Muslim Rights Concern, have in a statement condemned the recent attack on Atiku Abubakar’s campaign office in Katsina. Hoodlums were said to have reportedly attacked the Katsina State campaign office of ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has dissociated itself from a group of pastors who claim to be Arewa Pastors Peace Initiative, Nigeria (APPIN) who visited President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday to pledge their support to him and his government.…
As the 2019 general elections get closer, Mrs. Petra Onyegbule, Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, has advised youths against offering themselves to be used as thugs by desperate politicians. Onyegbule told the Newsmen on Monday in…
Since Nigeria chose the path of democracy in 1999, there has been undulating progress made by successive governments in all spheres of the nation’s polity. Nigerians thought that democracy will provide a platform through which good governance will reduce the…
Boko Haram faction, Islamic State West Africa Provence (ISWAP), has given the reason it released the girls kidnapped from the Government Girls’ Technical College, Dapchi in Yobe State. The group, in an audio recording exclusively obtained by said the girls were…
The Shehu of Bama Kingdom, Bornu State, Shehu Kyari Ibn Umar El-Kanemi, has accused the federal government for allowing Boko Haram insurgents enough space to operate, adding the growth of the insurgents group was a failure of the state. Speaking…
Fresh facts, which emerged yesterday about Thursday’s robbery in Offa, Kwara State, showed that many policemen and others at the police station, died because the station had no exit door. This was the argument of some junior officers yesterday as…
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, showed that he shares nothing in common with the former post-apartheid President of South Africa, the late Nelson Mandela. At the rescheduled National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the President threw his…