Empty compound of the Government Science Secondary school, Kankara (Photo by Kola Sulaimon / AFP) Kebbi Engages Local Vigilantes FCT PTAs Deploy Cutlasses, Bow, Arrows To Fortify Schools’ Security Security Assigned To Schools Don’t Have Weapons To Defend Us, Students Lament Benue Students Learn In Fear Due To Absence Of Conventional Security Worried by rising […]
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has cautioned the public against abuse of the country’s currency, describing naira as pride of the nation. Speaking at the CBN Fair at Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre, Awka, Anambra State, yesterday, the Principal Manager, Currency Operations Department, Mrs. Dorothy Onyene, cautioned traders, farmers and other Nigerians to stop […]
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Buhari haunted by his coup plotting past, says PDP HURIWA: You made yourself removable due to crass incompetence, nepotism Afenifere, UPU, Yoruba Ronu, PANDEF flay FG over coup alarm Afe Babalola offers to convoke, sponsor Emergency National Conference Another governor, Ndume raise the alarm over activities of Boko Haram Insecurity: NANS threatens to shut down […]
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A former President of the Senate, Pius Anyim, has called on President Major General Muhammadu Buhari to set up a panel of enquiry to investigate the agitations across Nigeria especially by aggrieved minorities. Anyim, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, in an open letter to Buhari dated May 3, 2021, and titled […]
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Nigeria’s Victory Yinka-Banjo, a 17-year-old high school graduate, was offered more than $5 million worth of scholarship money for an undergraduate program of study, according to admission documents and estimates of financial aid awards. “It still feels pretty unbelievable. I applied to so many schools because I didn’t even think any school would accept me,” […]
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Ambassador Ketil Karlsen and other EU officials during a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja Falana queries Buhari’s call for U.S. help outside AU, ECOWAS Experts disagree on Nigeria’s invitation of AFRICOM Masari: State of emergency won’t address insecurity Tight security at National Assembly over alleged threat Rivers imposes dusk-to-dawn curfew […]
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has urged the National Assembly to make laws that would strengthen Local Governments, make them autonomous and empowered to generate their own revenues. He said that if he were a member of the national assembly, he would mobilise others to amend sections of the Constitution to totally prohibit the appointment of […]
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Nigerians have condemned the verbal attack on Senator Smart Adeyemi by Senator Oluremi Tinubu after the latter said the current insecurity challenges in the country is threatening Nigeria’s existence. Adeyemi is the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District while Oluremi Tinubu represents Lagos Central Senatorial District. Both lawmakers are members of the ruling All Progressives […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sought the assistance of the international community to curb insecurity in West African nations, especially Nigeria. Specifically, he requested the United States to relocate its Africa Command (AFRICOM) headquarters from Stuttgart in Germany to its theatre of operation, which is Africa. The President made the plea during a virtual meeting […]
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Buhari, Blinken United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will meet with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, during his first virtual trip to Africa since US President Joe Biden came into office. Blinken’s spokesman, Ned Price, in a statement on Monday, said his principal will also virtually visit Kenya after meeting with the Nigerian […]
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