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President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over the first meeting of the Council of State since his inauguration on May 29. The council which is chaired by the President has Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; all living former Presidents and Heads ...

Muhammadu Sanusi II, the emir of Kano, has urged the federal government to introduce Islamic banking across the country to serve as a boost to the economy amid the effect of the decline in oil prices. Speaking in Kano during ...

Leyin odun kan ti Kehinde Osuolale dagbere faye, iroyin mi-in tun ti kan wa wi pe ikeji re, Taiwo naa ti lo ba ikeji re lajule orun. Ohun ti a gbo ni wi pe ilu Abuja ni Taiwo ku si. ...

A ministerial candidate, Adebayo Shittu, who was screened by the Senate on Tuesday declined to openly remark on the radical Boko Haram order, saying he feared for his security. Boko Haram is at present assaulting North-East Nigeria, slaughtering, besieging honest ...

    Labaran Maku, ex-minister of information and governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Nasarawa state, says his kin have gotten to be homeless people under the administration of Tanko Al-Makura. Maku, who thinks he won the ...

The Nigerian Army has set up a high powered Board of Inquiry (BOI) to investigate involvement of its personnel in Ekiti and Osun States governorship polls last year. Colonel Sani Usman, Acting Director Army Public Relations, in a statement said ...

  Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has insisted that no amount of criticism would stop the collection of all payable taxes and the full implementation of the Land Use Charge law in the state. Oshiomhole who spoke after receiving ...

The confirmation of National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed as a Minister of the Federal Republic, means he will have to step down in the coming days.  However, while there are talks that the ...

The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has approached governors and leader in the South-West not to recognise Igbo kings in their individual states and areas. An announcement by its Publicity Secretary, Kunle Famoriyo, said the idea of Igbo kings also called Eze ...

Service chiefs yesterday met with President Muhammadu Buhari and informed him that the weather and shortage of logistics were hindering the ongoing war against the Boko Haram insurgency. The closed-door meeting, which lasted two hours, was also attended by Vice ...