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Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has disclosed that citizens need to pay taxes so that the state can be less dependent on its rather insufficient monthly share from the federation account. The Governor observed that the nation has reached ...

The Igbo Speaking Community in Lagos State, on Thursday declared that the people of South-East resident in the North had been the major target of the Boko Haram insurgency. The socio-cultural group equally accused successive administrations in Nigeria of a ...

Wife donates model school to orphanage EKITI State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose yesterday reviewed his one year in office and declared: ‘I have done well’. His wife, Feyisetan do­nated a model school to the Erelu Angela Adebayo Children’s Home in ...

The immediate past governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatude Fashola, SAN, has asserted that he had always remained loyal to whatever cause he subscribed to all through his public life. This was as he declared that, “I always pray for ...

The United States is sending 300 troops along with surveillance drones to Cameroon to bolster a West African effort to counter the Nigerian militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, US officials said on Wednesday. In a notification to Congress, President Barack ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari said, on Wednesday in Abuja, that he stayed sure that before the current year’s over, Boko Haram’s ability to assault, seize, attack and hold any Nigerian territory will have been totally destroyed. Talking at a group ...

STATE governors are pressing for a ban of rice importation in the next two years during which they hope that the country would have developed sufficient capacity to produce enough to meet the nation’s requirement. Chairman of the Nigeria Governors ...

  Senator Senator Ogun East Senatorial region, Senator Buruji Kashamu, has said that the National and State Assemblies Election Petitions Tribunal did not invalidate his election, taking note of that it only invalidated the votes ascribed to both applicants in 110 ...

It was not immediately clear what caused the latest blasts, which happened in quick succession from 8:10 pm (1910 GMT), said Bashir Mohammed, whose house is near the scene. Three bomb explosions hit the city of Maiduguri in upper east Nigeria ...

17 alleged killers of the Managing Director of the Lekki Free Trade Zone Tajudeen Disu were today summoned before an Ebute-Metta Magistrate Court. The Nigeria police had approached the court to grant them a request to remand the suspects in ...