archiveJuly 2019

  South-West Governors Forum has reacted to a recent call by Northern Elders Forum, NEF, asking herdsmen to leave the Southern region of the country and return to the North saying the call was most unfortunate, divisive and retrogressive. The Chairman of NEF, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, had in a press...

President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration remains committed to securing the country as well as creating peaceful and stable socio-economic environment for all citizens. The president gave the assurance when he received the National and State Executive members of the Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo (MBO) Dynamic Support Group led by its National...

  The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Col. Muhammad Abdallah (retd), says President Muhammadu Buhari has approved recruitment of 5,000 personnel for the agency to boost its manpower. Abdallah made the disclosure on Friday at the Public Destruction of Drug Exhibits by Taraba Command of NDLEA in Jalingo....

India government may grant Nigeria credit line for the purpose of revamping the country’s moribund petroleum refineries to boost the domestic supply of refined products. At a visit to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhay Thakur, said India...

An Australian Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old man, Anthony Harvey, who admitted to killing his three young daughters, twin, two-year-old and three-year-old with their mother and grandmother to life imprisonment. The people were found dead inside their home in suburban Perth in Sept. 2018, after Harvey, walked into...

  Plans have reached an advanced stage for the issuance of “birth certificates” for the animals as well as registration of all farmers and their cattle by the Ugandan government. Ugandan Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Vincent Ssempijja, said the move became necessary to enable government trace where...

  As Atiku Abubakar closes its case today, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has produced the documents which the presidential election petitions tribunal, in Abuja called for on Wednesday at the instance of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The documents which were packed...

Nigeria has been drawn with Sierra Leone, Lesotho and Benin Republic in Group L of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. The draw which took place on Thursday evening at the headquarters of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Cairo, had African football icons Nwankwo Kanu, Samuel...

Amid intractable traffic congestion undermining its domestic economy, the Lagos State Government Thursday disclosed that it had started working with the Federal Government to construct Light Rail (Red Line) valued at $2 billion. This is coming as the state government has promised to fund the completion of the  Blue Line,...

  President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Mr Amaju Pinnick, has been impeached as 1st Vice-President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). His removal took place on Thursday at CAF Executive Committee meeting, after a well attended congress in Cairo Egypt. Pinnick was elevated to the position after...