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President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Lagos state after commissioning two separate projects in Ebute Metta and Apapa areas of the state. The president departed Lagos from the Mobalaji Johnson railway station in Ebute Meta in a presidential aircraft with the registration number NAF-54. A huge crowd of school pupils were …

Transport minister Rotimi Amaechi says the extension of the Abuja-Kaduna rail line to Kano wll begin this June. He disposed this during the official commissioning of the facility on Thursday in Lagos. “We have about three or four projects. This month, we will start Kano-Kaduna and then we will also …

Man who slapped Macron tells court the president embodied France’s decay The medieval martial arts enthusiast who slapped President Emmanuel Macron across the face told a court he was a right-wing sympathiser who had acted because the president represented all that was rotten with France, BFM TV reported. Damien Tarel, …

The Federal Government has declared Monday, June 14 as a public holiday to mark this year’s Democracy Day. This is as the government warned against agitations capable of threatening the peace of the country. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, was quoted to have said this in a statement on …

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has said that the people of the North-West are one, yet they are killing each other. Buhari said this in an interview with Arise TV on Thursday, noting that the situation was giving him concern. He further said the people of the North-West were suffering a lot …

  Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has said that the Lagos-Ibadan Standard Guage Railway project of the Federal Government was in tandem with the State’s Transportation Master Plan, just as freight stations crisscrossing the State would provide manufacturers good platform to export their goods and services to the outside …

  Yoruba Nation agitators are planning to hold ‘peaceful rallies’ across the southwest region on Saturday June 12, Newsextra24 has learnt. The Nation reports the pro-Yoruba nation protesters have held rallies across southwest states including Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, and Ondo. Also, NANS under the leadership of its National President, Comrade …

Imo Deputy Governor Prof. Placid Njoku has denied reports he has resigned, dismissing them as baseless. Njoku, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Ozioma Ukwuoma, insisted the reports have no iota of truth, attributing them to those who had been working to distabilise the state The statement reads …

Sen. Aliyu Wamakko, (APC-Sokoto) Chairman of the Northern Senators’ Forum has called for lasting solutions to tackle the menace of insecurity in the country. Wamakko made the call while briefing newsmen after the caucus’s closed-door session, held in Abuja, on Wednesday. He said: “We must continue to find more solutions …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday rallied its members in the Senate to block the confirmation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, as a national commissioner in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The party’s renewed opposition to Onochie’s nomination came as the Senate …