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The Nigeria Governors forum has reacted to the attempt to cut short the life of the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, by gunmen suspected to be bandits. Chairman of the forum and Governor of Ekiti State Kayode Fayemi in a statement issued on Sunday said the news was shocking …

Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa was the candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC) in the June 12, 1993, presidential election which result was annulled. In this exclusive interview, the elder statesman bared his mind on many topical issues in Nigeria: from insecurity to permutations for the 2023 presidential election, especially …

Doyin Okupe, a former aide to Ex-Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan respectively, has given one major reason the North will not support Igbo presidency come 2023. In a series of tweets on Saturday, Okupe explained that the North are yet to forgive the Igbo over the incidences of 1966 …

In a bid to ensure balance and fairness in the operations of games in the lottery industry, the federal government is set to begin recovering the N100 billion that it’s being owed by lottery operators. This, it intends to do by setting up a road map to enable the industry …

Proposed Refinery In Katsina Costs $2b, TAM For Old Facility $1.5b • $1.5b Fresh Approval Higher Than 10-year Capital Allocation To Health • TAM Three Times Higher Than 10-year Education Budget The whopping sum of $26.5b, which the Federal Government has so far spent on the maintenance of its loss-making …

Many posit that the impact of favourable change is completely dependent on the degree of damage done to its target. But what if the target is a country with the seventh-largest growing population in the world, with an average annual GDP of N224 billion? Surely there are lots of other …

“Those who love their lives should avoid Akure-Oyo Expressway for now” was Gbenga Ibikunle’s admonition as he recounted how he and his wife were kidnapped sometime in January this year. The experience has become traumatic for the 47-year-old and his family. Gbenga and his family travelled to his wife’s hometown …

The Federal Government has faulted the fresh notice by the Academic Staff Union of Universities to embark on a fresh strike barely four months after calling off a 10-month industrial action. The government said any person conceiving a strike after close to one year of downing tools would be doing …

Power consumers have raised the alarm that power distribution companies were now selling the free meters that were provided for electricity users by the Federal Government. In October 2020, the Federal Government inaugurated the National Mass Metering Programme in respect of which the Central Bank of Nigeria issued a framework …

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has warned that the Federal Government will be held responsible if his counterpart in Benue State, Samuel Ortom, is assassinated. He insisted that if Ortom was killed, the country would be plunged into another civil war. Wike spoke while reacting to attempt on Governor Ortom’s …