President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday said his government has not given up on liberating Leah Sharibu and the remaining 112 Chibok schoolgirls still in Boko Haram captivity. “We won’t give up on them. As I have always said, as a Nigerian and as president, I assure all that we will doContinue Reading
Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has said he is planning to write to the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), to demand answers on why the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government has been disobeying court orders. The activist lawyer said he recalled that even whenContinue Reading
Following alleged refusal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his party access to electoral materials used in the conduct of the election, as ordered by the Court of Appeal, theContinue Reading
Senators yesterday reviewed the security situation, submitting that people in many parts of the country, especially the North, were at the mercy of hoodlums. They said banditry and kidnapping were now the order of the day, with the rich and the poor fallen prey. The senators were contributing to aContinue Reading
The National president of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Com. Ayuba Wabba , has stated that the Nigerian workers will not accept anything less than N30,000 minimum wage from state governors. Wabba said the new minimum wage has become binding , having been signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, sayingContinue Reading
At least two people have been injured in a series of blasts at a steel plant that rocked Port Talbot this morning. Emergency crews are in attendance at the Tata steelworks in the South Wales town after reports of deafening explosions. Locals reported being woken by the mystery blasts –Continue Reading
Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State and a former Spokesperson of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, has accused the State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, of setting aside a whopping sum of N100 billion for a media campaign against the Minister ofContinue Reading
Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige has denied saying that Nigeria has enough medical doctors. He also said he didn’t say doctors were free to export their trade to other countries and make foreign exchange for the nation. The Minister, who claimed to have been misquoted, said whatContinue Reading
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will hold its valedictory session on May 22. The minister made this disclosure while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the end of the Council meeting which was presided over by Vice President YemiContinue Reading
Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting has approved N52 billion for e-border solution to monitor the country’s porous borders. The weekly meeting was presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Briefing newsmen on the decision, Interior minister, Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd) said the contract will cover 86 border posts and all the 1,400Continue Reading
