The Federal Government is set for the deployment of 12 Super Tucano jets against bandits as part of concerted efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to end terrorism before 2023. As a prelude to the deployment, government has also started perfecting the conditions for the release of a gazette, which will legally classifyContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina has said his principal can end insurgency before the end of his tenure in 2023. Adesina said Buhari government would take out those behind insurgency within the next 17 months remaining. Speaking with Channels Television, the presidential spokesman recounted how the Tamil Tigers inContinue Reading
The Special Forces and Air Task Force of the Nigerian military on Sunday foiled an onslaught at the School of Special Forces in Yobe. However, seven insurgents were eliminated in a separate attack on civilians at Buni Yadi, 53 kilometres from Damaturu, the state capital. The sect members stormed theContinue Reading
South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the leaders of the anti-apartheid movement, has died at the age of 90, the President’s Office has said. He was an outspoken critic of the country’s previous brutal system of oppression against the country’s Black majority. Desmond Mpilo Tutu was awarded the Nobel PeaceContinue Reading
First Lady Aisha Buhari has ordered all her staff to proceed on leave until further notice. This was contained in a short terse statement posted on Aisha Buhari’s official Instagram handle (@aishambuhari), signed by Dr. Mohammed Kamal, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Office of the First Lady on HealthContinue Reading
Barring any last-minute development, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) appears ready to hold its national convention in February next year for the election of new members of the National Working Committee (NWC). The Mai Mala Buni-led National caretaker committee is yet to release the guidelines for the convention. AfterContinue Reading
A legal practitioner, Festus Ogun, says the directive by Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Leo Irabor, asking scores of Generals to resign is illegal. Those affected are of Regular Course 36 (RC – 36) members and spread across the Air Force, Army and Navy. On Monday, General Irabor gave theContinue Reading
A former Osun State Governor and first National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief Bisi Akande has said he has never seen anything genuine in ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. Akande, in his book, ‘My Participations’, narrated several instances of Obasanjo’s alleged attempts to bring him down. He added thatContinue Reading
Obinwanne Okeke, popularly known as Invictus Obi, will be released in September 2028. The Nigerian entrepreneur and a Forbes Africa 30 under-30 honoree was sentenced to a 10-year jail term in the U.S. A statement by the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons on its website revealed that Obi isContinue Reading
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed yesterday said that the COVID-19 crisis may plunge 11 million Nigerians into poverty by the end of 2022 Ahmed stated this during the second day of the National COVID-19 Summit where stakeholders discussed the Theme: “Pushing Through the Last MileContinue Reading
