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The Presidency has responded to Sunday’s Editorial of Daily Trust on the widespread insecurity in the country. In the piece, which went viral, and attracted so many comments, this newspaper made references to carnage being witnessed across the country, especially in the North. From the burning alive of passengers by …

Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, on Sunday, lashed out at the spokesman of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Emma Powerful, over the group’s threat to lock down the South-East region, should the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), visit the state. According to Umahi, Buhari’s visit to the state was already …

Ahead of the 2023 general election, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has appealed to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, not to endorse any political aspirant contesting for any public office during the elections, Newsextra24 reports. The former President made the appeal at an event held at the palace of …

Abacha’s CSO Saved Me From Being Raped As An Investigative Journalist – Abike Dabiri-Erewa Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa has narrated how she was almost raped while engaging in investigative journalism, Newsextra24 reports. Speaking after receiving an award at the maiden edition of the National Freedom …

Lagos: In a fresh narrative of the intrigues that characterized the emergence of General Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s President in 2015,the pioneer National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),Chief Bisi Akande, has alleged moves by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Northern elites and some aristocrats to ensure it did not …

Nigerian airline, Air Peace, has rejected claims made by aviation authorities in the United Arab Emirates, on why the country decided to deny it flight slots in the Middle-East country. The UAE’s General Civil Aviation Authority had on Friday described Air Peace’s request for three slots instead of one it …

Former Presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, has warned human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, against speaking ill about Pastor E. A . Adeboye – the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Newsextra24 reports. In a post shared on his Facebook page this morning, Okupe said he recently read a …

The former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision not to accept the National Leader of the APC, Senator Bola Tinubu, as his running mate in 2015 was not the first time Tinubu would confront serious opposition to …

In a space of just two days last week, 23 travellers heading to Kaduna were burnt alive in a commercial bus at Sabon Birni, Sokoto State. No fewer than 15 worshipers killed as they prayed in a mosque at Ba’are village, Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State. A Commissioner …

President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi Ajagungbade III who joined his ancestors on Sunday morning, Newspremises reports. President Buhari in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina, on Sunday afternoon, condoled with the family of His Royal Highness, …