President Muhammadu Buhari will Monday depart for Accra, Ghana to attend the country’s 61st Independence Anniversary celebrations holding at the Independence Square on Tuesday. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said this in…
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PEACE CORPS BILL: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SET TO DARE PRESIDENCY
For the first time in the life of the present National Assembly and the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, the legislature will this week take a daring step to challenge the president and prove to the nation that they cannot…
HATE SPEECH BILL: IPC WARNS NIGERIAN SENATE
A media watch group, International Press Centre (IPC) has warned the Nigerian Senate against going ahead with the passage of a bill now before it which prescribes death sentence for ‘hate speech.’ The Centre in a statement signed by Lanre…
KOGI APC CRISIS: NATIONAL LEADERSHIP CALLS FOR CALM
The crisis in the Kogi State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) appears to be worsening as the national leadership of the party calls for calm among members. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary Bolaji Abdullahi on…
WHOEVER NAMED LAI MOHAMMED AT BIRTH MUST HAVE BEEN A PROPHET– RENO
My attention has been drawn to fallacious comments made by the notoriously dishonest Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to the effect that the Jonathan administration did not act on time when the Chibok Girls were kidnapped whereas the Buhari…
IOM DECRIES SENSELESS ATTACK BY BOKO HARAM
The United Nations Migration agency, IOM in Nigeria has decried the senseless attack by members of Boko haram that claimed the lives of two of the agency’s members of staff. During the incident, four soldiers, four mobile police and three humanitarian…
OPERATION GET BACK DAPCHI GIRLS: DSS MEETS WITH SERVICE CHIEFS
The Defence Headquarters said on Friday that the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin, Service Chiefs of the three services, on Thursday met with the Director General, Department of State Service in Maiduguri where the on-going operations in the…
PASS ANTI-GRAZING LAWS – OHANEZE NDIGBO URGES IGBO-SPEAKING STATES
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Friday called on all Igbo-speaking states to reject the proposed cattle colonies in the country. Rising from its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, Ohanaeze Ndigbo also urged governments of Igbo-speaking states to pass…
2019: INEC DECLARES 229 NAMES OF ALIENS DISCOVERED IN VOTERS’ REGISTER
In a bid to further ensure the fidelity of the register of voters to be used for the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) has declared that about 229 names of aliens discovered in the Voters’ Register for…
SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSES OF ASSEMBLY ASK FOR DEVOLUTION OF POWERS
The speakers of the houses of assembly are asking for the introduction of devolution of powers in the next round of constitution amendment. In 2017, the senate rejected a proposal for devolution of power. Speaking on Thursday when lawmakers from…