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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 ...

A mother and her 14 months old girl were killed in the wake of being hit by stray bullets when thieves laid attack near their home at Block 8, 23 Road House in Festac Town, Lagos, shooting sporadically from an ...

This is an exclusive presentation of a classified document on President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees as prepared by the Senate. According to the document, some of the nominees are said to have corruption cases leveled against them. Name: Babatunde Raji ...

Troops are engaging some suspected insurgents in a gun fight at Inike axis, Okene Local Government Area of Kogi state. According to Daily Trust, trouble started at about 5 am on Tuesday when soldiers mobilized to the area to arrest ...

ABUJA – President Mohammadu Buhari and Auditor General of the Federation, AGF, Samuel Ukura on Monday disagreed over the environmental audit reports on the drying-up of the Lake Chad. While the president noted that the report did not take into ...

Abuja – The Department of State Service (DSS) on Monday presented two suspected abductors of Chief Olu Falae, a former presidential aspirant, to newsmen in Abuja. It would be recalled that Falae, who was also a former Secretary to the ...

Briefing journalists on the kidnap incident, Mr. Abdullahi Garba, who did not disclose his designation, stated that the abductors were “mere criminals”.  He said the main suspect, who collected the N5 million ransom, was on the run, even as he ...