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A committee on public accounts, anti-corruption and due process in Abia state assembly is investigating the sale of 17 vehicles belonging to Abia’s Secondary Education Management Board for N317,000 as well as student buses parked in the ministry of agriculture. A hearing by the committee on Friday did not proceed …

The Federal Government planned to contribute $ 350 m to the ECOWAS Security Fund out of which $ 80m ( over N30 . 5 bn) would be spent on the counter- insurgency campaign in the North -East. The pledge was made towards the $ 1 bn ECOWAS Regional Security Fund …

“We have been surviving through loans we obtained from banks, money lenders, friends and family. We also get assistance from some family members and friends who are already weary of carrying our burdens in addition to theirs. “For me, I got bank loans and borrowed from people. We have been …

Prominent Nigerians, including the immediate past President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nwodo; a chieftain of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo and the Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Chief Audu Ogbeh, on Thursday said there was an urgent need to restructure  Nigeria for it to attain its full potential. The …

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has told Yoruba youths that the security of their lives and property, including those of their parents is their responsibility. He advised them not to rely on their governors because, like the South East and South-South governors, they …

Joe Biden’s inauguration, the Secret Service put on the biggest motorcade procession in history, as at least seven ‘Beast’ limousines and an armada of armored cars transported the new president and vice president through the nation’s capital. At least seven heavily armored presidential limos, nicknamed the Beasts, were seen driving …

As the clamour for presidency to return to the South in 2023 continues to reverberate across the country, some stakeholders have opined that the ambition of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, may be frustrated just like that of M.K.O Abiola in 1993, …

Kamala Harris is inaugurated as Vice President of the United States on January 20, 2021. She has made history as the first female, first Black and first South Asian to hold the office. The culmination of Harris’ historic run with President Joe Biden first began with her own bid for …

Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has approved recruitment into the state Security Network Agency also known as Amotekun Corps. The approval was contained in a memo on Friday signed by the secretary of the corps, Lanre Amuda, on behalf of the commander, Adetunji Adeleye. According to the memo, the categories …

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who displaced McConnell as the chamber’s leader after Democrats won two Georgia runoff elections this month, announced the move on the Senate floor on Friday. Schumer did not say when Trump’s second impeachment trial would begin. “The House will deliver the article of impeachment to …