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What is in it for us? When it comes down to brass tacks, this is the question tugging at the heart of zonal political interests in Nigeria. The national integrants think in favour of group interest and protection. How will […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday joined world leaders in congratulating Brazil’s newly elected President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on winning a hard-fought, divisive runoff election. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s media aide in a statement on Monday in Abuja, […]

Babagana Monguno, national security adviser (NSA), says the security situation in Nigeria does not warrant travel advisories and terror warnings from the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK). While the US authorized the evacuation of non-critical staff in […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed Feb. 6 for the mention of a suit filed against the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, and former President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick. The matter, which […]

Lagos residents faced an increase in the costs of transport fares on Monday as some driver withdrew their services. Along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, a trip from First Gate bus stop to Orile, which used to go for ₦150, the minibusses […]

Dr Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate, has urged Nigerians, particularly his supporters, the “Obidients” to disregard the leaked manifesto being circulated on social media. He stated this on Monday in a signed statement posted on his verified Twitter […]

Prof. Adigun Agbaje, the chairman of the Oba Sikiru Adetona Institute for Governance at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye on Monday morning narrated his two day ordeal in the den of kidnappers in forest between Oyo and Ogun State. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday depart Abuja for a “routine” medical checkup in London, United Kingdom (UK). Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, announced the imminent trip. He said Buhari is expected back […]

The Adamawa State Government said it has so far spent N5 billion on the settlement of the backlog of pension and gratuity arrears of retired civil servants out of the inherited backlog of N20 billion. Alhaji Ibrahim Attah, a permanent […]

The newly sworn-in Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, has as admonished politicians in Nigeria to allow the judicial arm of government to do its job as constitutionally expected as the 2023 elections approach. Ariwoola, who spoke at […]