President Muhammadu Buhari has blamed rising security challenges in Africa on illegal financial activities, even as he charged intelligence and security agencies to tighten the noose on illicit flows. He stated this in a keynote address at the opening session of the 16th Conference of the Committee of Intelligence and Security Services of Africa (CISSA) […]

President Muhammadu Buhari (right) and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II at the State House, Abuja … on Thursday Leaders shouldn’t keep silent on insecurity – Jonathan We won’t leave South West – Herders We aren’t returning to North, Fulani in South East reply NEF We believe in stability, unity of Nigeria […]

President Muhammadu Buhari (right) and Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II at the State House, Abuja … on Thursday The Custodian of the Throne of Oduduwa, the ancestral father of the Yoruba speaking people worldwide and foremost Royal Father, the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Thursday said that his people do not want to experience any […]

The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, Gani Adams declared on Thursday that Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, would work with the governors to strengthen security in all Yoruba states. Towards this end, he said that they were having meetings of different organizations to have a synergy with the state governments in the region. He spoke […]

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday assured Nigerians that the country would get above its insecurity issues in no distant time. He gave the assurance at the public presentation of a book ”Not by Might, Nor by Power” and the launch of the Nicholas Okoh Foundation in Abuja. He said that insecurity had been with […]

The Senate on Thursday, approved the appointment of  Mr Aliyu Abubakar, as a non-executive commissioner on the board of the National Communications Commission Abubakar, from Bauchi State, was nominated to represent the North-East last week on the board by President Muhammadu Buhari for the same position despite his rejection by the eighth Senate because of low educational […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised the order by the House of Representatives asking the Police and Department of State Services (DSS) to shut down the Edo State House of Assembly as unconstitutional. The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, Thursday in Abuja also described the order as […]

Edo State Governor Andrew Obaseki Edo State Government has said the House of Representatives lacks the Constitutional powers to shut down the State House of Assembly. The state government’s statement is a response to the purported orders by the House of Representatives to the Inspector-General of Police and the Director-General of the Department of State […]