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Ibikunle Amosun, governor of Ogun state, and Yusuf Dantalle, national chairman of Allied Peoples Movement (APM), on Monday presented a letter adopting President Muhammadu Buhari as the presidential candidate of the…

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has reiterated its commitment to ensure 24-hour supply of petroleum products across the country during the Yuletide. Chinedu Okoronkwo, National…

Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State on Monday commended the Federal Government’s social investment programme in the state. Dankwambo gave the commendation while presenting the 2019 budget to the State House of…

The death toll in Indonesia’s weekend tsunami jumped to 373 on Monday as search teams pushed on with the grim hunt for more corpses. Rescue teams used their bare hands, diggers and other heavy equipment to haul…

Convener, Pan Niger Delta Forum, and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has said God will give Nigeria a president after His own heart, regardless of how politicians try to hit up the polity of next year’s polls.…

A foundation member of the All Progressives Congress and Director General of Voice of Nigeria, Osita Okechukwu, has advised the Peoples Democratic Party to mind their business and face their manifesto, which…

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, has retracted his earlier story of speaking with the widow of Lt. Col Ibrahim Sakaba, killed by Boko Haram at Metele last month. He now said…

The Chairman of Forte Oil Plc, Mr Femi Otedola, has announced his decision to sell all his shares in the downstream business of the firm.The firm disclosed this on Monday while notifying the Nigerian Stock Exchange about the…

A total amount of $5.4bn has so far been paid to states by the Federal Government for settlement of the Paris Club Refund.The Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, confirmed the release on Monday in Abuja.The $5.4bn…

Uchi Achi-Okpaga, spokesman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, says Nigeria will continue to wallow in “abject socio-political, economic and developmental blindness” until an Igbo man becomes the president. Achi-Okpaga, said…

A friend of the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, who was abducted by the gunmen who killed the retired four-star General, has been released. According to The Punch, the friend was…

Policemen attached to Ilasamaja division have arrested two suspected members of a robbery syndicate that specialised in attacking customers, who had gone to withdraw money from banks at Sadiku/ Ilasamaja, along the Oshodi-Apapa…

Govenor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State yesterday said that the national chairman of  All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole came to Imo state to rain insults on him.Okorocha stated this through a release to newsmen in…

Former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah is in fresh trouble. Investigations revealed that the former governor in connivance with a faceless South African based company allegedly embezzled over N5.6…

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Mr Jimi Agbaje, has said if voted next year, he will dismantle the Lekki Toll Gate, which he…

Wizkid still went for Olamide’s concert, OLIC5, just after shutting down his Made In Lagos concert which held in Lagos last night. The show of love is currently trending, as Nigerians used the opportunity to state that no one is busy…

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday took his door-to-door campaign to the Hausa community leader of Agege, Alhaji Musa Dogonkadai. The leader, who doubles as the Chairman of the Chieftaincy Council…

Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, who recently clocked 69 years says God revealed to him that he would die in the next 27 years, when he will be 96. Governor Ajimobi who reneged on his vow not to…

Thousands of supporters of Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, on Sunday embarked on solidarity rally to reaffirm commitment to the election of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in next…

Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, at the weekend gave an idea of how he and the party’s Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, would fix the country’s economy if voted into power by…

BEYOND the conventional Boko Haram war, troops are fighting criminality in the Northeast, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai has said. The COAS said the army was contending with forces that…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo sparked a huge controversy at the weekend when he asked his kinsmen in the Southwest to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid next year. He was quoted as saying that the…

Governor Ibikunle Amosun has clarified that he only fears God and not human beings, including President Muhammadu Buhari. Amosun said God whose counsel or pronouncement cannot be altered by man, is the one he…

President Muhammadu Buhari will not be allowed to use the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, for his campaign next Friday, the state government has said. Mr Buhari is scheduled to visit Akwa Ibom on…