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  Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has asked Nigerians to learn from the history of Nigeria’s civil war rather than beating the drums of a second civil war, saying while the wise learn from history, experience remains the best teacher for a fool. In a keynote address, “Greater Together than Apart” …

Three insiders in the Presidency have told SaharaReporters that President Muhammadu Buhari is being fed intravenously as he has had severe difficulty eating and drinking fluids for several days. The sources also disclosed that, although President Buhari’s health had held up for a while after his return from an extended …

Angry workers in their thousand disrupted the 2017 May Day celebrations at the Eagle Square, Abuja, over the failure of the Federal Government to give them a new minimum wage in the country. The workers insisted that the Federal Government had a responsibility to give them a definite position on …

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday launch the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan 2017-2020. According to a statement on Tuesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the launching is in furtherance of the current administration’s drive to sustain and build on the …

Protesting truck drivers have blocked the Abuja-Lokoja-Okene highways since the early hours of Monday. The drivers were protesting the N10,000 daily tax imposed by the Kogi State revenue Service. The state government, police and the Federal Road Safety Corps were, however, taking measure to ensure free flow of traffic.  No …

There was a little drama in Abuja yesterday, precisely at Durumi area a few yards away from Winner’s Chapel when a man, alleged to be a member of the church pulled a gun on Federal Road Safety officials (FRSC) who tried to impound his vehicle on an charge that he and …

The officials of ABUJA Municipal Area Council (AMAC), yesterday sealed the Discovery Mall located at Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja over unpaid tenement rate of N3.5million. According to our reporter who was at the venue, law enforcement agents ordered business owners as well as customers out of the mall. …

The Workers of the Ministry of Finance on Monday embarked on a protest. They are demanding the removal of the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun. Their grouse, it was learnt, is over the non-payment of what they termed their allowances, which amounted to N1.2 billion. They equally accused Adeosun of …

Nigeria’s ‎Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said the Federal Government’s social intervention programme was not a welfare scheme that gives handouts to the poor but the largest single dedicated provision for social investment in the country.  He said this in his address at the launch of the Strategy Framework/Source Book …

Rescued Chibok schoolgirl, Amina Ali-Nkeki, on Thursday arrived at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, for audience with President Muhammadu Buhari. The girl, her baby, her mother and her brother, were led to the villa by Borno governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, at about 2.46 p.m. The governor and the girl, with her …