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The National Emergency Management Agency received 129 Nigerians stranded at Agadez, Niger Republic, on Saturday in Kano. NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Nuradeen Abdullahi, gave the figure when he received the returnees. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the returnees arrived in Kano in three luxury buses provided by …

A frontline presidential hopeful on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has promised to replicate all the developmental strides he made in Lagos while he was the governor of the state in Nigeria, if elected the president in the 2023 general elections. Tinubu, who …

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has faulted the hearing of arbitrations for the contracts entered by the federal government with International organisations in the United Kingdom. Jonathan made case for the hosting of such arbitration sessions within Nigeria. The former president advocated the position on Saturday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa capital, during …

Aminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto State and Presidential aspirant has guaranted that the circumstances which led to the death of Miss Deborah Moses in the state will not reoccur. According to Tambuwal, the fate suffered by Deborah was not a true representation of Sokoto people. Recall that owing to an alleged …

Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom has stated that Ekiti governor and chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Kayode Fayemi has the capacity to govern the country. This was stated on Saturday by Ortom, a governor on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when he received Fayemi, an …

The Lagos State Police Command has read the riot act to residents and motorcyclists in the state over the recent ban imposed on Okada operations. Police in the state said that both motorcyclists and passengers who violate the new ban will be arrested and prosecuted. The State Police Public Relations …

Bola Ahmed Tinubu, leader of the All Progressives Congress APC has begged Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar to have some respect for elders and give him some delegates for the coming party’s presidential primary election. The request was made on Friday by Tinubu while addressing APC delegates at Manpower Development Institute, …

A two-storey building has collapsed on the Lagos Island area of Lagos State. One person has been confirmed dead in the incident that occurred Saturday afternoon It was learnt that the building was under construction before its collapse. According to an eyewitness, collapsed under the torrential rainfall at Freeman Road, …

Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of excluding the South East. According to Tambuwal, people from the South-East feel cheated because Buhari keeps excluding them in the scheme of things, thereby heightening the insecurity in the region. This was stated by Tambuwal while meeting with Imo …

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, head of New Media, Anthony Ehilebo, has urged Nigerian youths to engage in grassroots politics that will help the lives of the ordinary people as against going after politics that will benefit just them and their family members. Ehilebo who is one of the leading aspirants …