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The Grand Master Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Baba Bisi Akande and Gov Abiola Ajimobi today paid a condolence visit to Governor  Ogbeni Aregbesola over the demise of his mother. See photos below

The #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) movement today in Abuja undertook a peaceful protest to demand the release of the remaining 113 Chibok school girls, and to condemn last week’s gruesome killings and abduction by Boko Haram terrorists of oil exploration workers and lecturers of the University of Maiduguri. The demonstration began at the …

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, said contrary to insinuations, the Senate had no pre-meditated plan to reject Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Mr. Saraki said, while featuring on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja, that the screening of …

   In an effort by the Sokoto State government to cover up the fact it gave N700 million from Paris Club refund money to the Sultan of Sokoto, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Bashir Garba, published a purported 2016 bid to purchase a Guest House in Abuja …

Ex-President Jonathan’s house An Abuja home of former President Goodluck Jonathan has been burgled, PREMIUM TIMES can confirm. However, in what appears a curious twist, the house was not burgled by known thieves, but by police officers assigned to guard the house. The Nigeria Police have thus arrested three of …

The Federal Government has raised the alarm over an orchestrated plot to discredit the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, and by extension the government’s anti-corruption efforts. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday in a statement signed by Segun Adeyemi, his …

The Lagos State Government on Tuesday served a 48-hour “Abatement Notice from July 25 to July 27 to all owners of illegal structures and shanties, including containerised shops around Obalende. The Head, Public Affairs Unit, Lagos State Task Force, Mr Adebayo Taofiq, said in a statement that the illegal structures …

Medical doctors in the employment of the Ogun Government on Tuesday vowed to embark on an indefinite industrial action by August if the state government continues to ignore their demands. The doctors, under the aegis of the National Association of Government General Medical Practitioners, made the threat during a news …

  Mike Okeme, the Special Adviser to Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Labour Relations and SERVICOM, last Friday escaped being lynched during an election of the state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) held at the La-Diva Hotel in Asaba. Okeme, a former state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress …

The Senate on Tuesday finally passed a bill to make the Nigerian Peace Corps a para-military agency. The Senate adopted the conference report on the bill to establish the Nigerian Peace Corps, after it was so advised by its committee on judiciary, human rights and legal matters. Both the Senate …