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The spokesman for the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, Malam Garba Shehu, has reacted to the posthumous appraisal of his principal by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, declaring that the latter only hated the former. Reacting to Obasanjo’s latest verdict on Buhari administration (2015-2023), describing the tenure as the most worst civil administration in Nigeria, Shehu […]
The Sokoto State Government has faulted the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report ranking it with the highest poverty rate in the country, describing the bureau’s methodology as insufficient. Commissioner for Budget and Economic Development in the state, Dr. Abubakar Muhammad Zayyanu stated this while addressing journalists at a one-day workshop organised in collaboration with […]
Ukrainians say they are in danger of losing the drone arms race with Russia and need more help.
The Yola Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has demanded the federal government to immediately pause action on the recently approved nine universities until the existing ones received adequate funding, infrastructure and staffing. ASUU threatened the federal government will face industrial action if it failed to comply with the demand. The Yola […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has ordered the arrest of one of its dismissed staff members, Olakunle Alex Folarin, after he was spotted on a matchmaking programme hosted by entertainer and Nollywood actor, Lege Miami, on social media. In a statement released on its official X handle on Monday, the anti-graft agency said […]
Nigeria’s former Minister of External Affairs and former permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, said there were over 1,000 insurgent groups operating within the African continent. He stated this in a goodwill message at the African Chiefs of Defence Staff Summit 2025 with the theme “combating contemporary threats to regional peace […]
The Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin has stated that Nigeria was not divinely established, but was rather formed as a colonial entity intended for British economic benefit. Adefarasin, who stated this during a sermon on Sunday, also refuted the notion that Nigeria’s foundation was based on divine intentions, emphasising that […]
Foremost Nigerian gospel singer, acclaimed for the 1996 masterpiece “Akanam Nkwe”, Princess Anne Inyang, is set to drop a hit single ‘You’re the Sunshine’. The track, rendered in both Ibibio and English languages, is a fusion of the familiar and the fresh, blending highlife rhythms, talking drum symphonies, and contemporary production that bridge generations of […]
Former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has confirmed that he will contest Nigeria’s presidency again in 2027. Atiku, who made his position known through his long-time associate and spokesperson during the 2023 elections, Tunde Olusunle, said he remained committed to leading efforts to […]
A 55-year-old drug kingpin, Mohammed Ali Abubakar, alias Bello Karama, and five members of a syndicate operating at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) in Kano, have been taken into custody by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) following the discovery that they were behind the shipment of illicit substances for which three […]