During a question and answer session on Wednesday in the United States, President Buhari said he will treat people who gave him more votes better than those who didn’t vote for him. Watch video below:
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has accused the United States of helping in the growth and spread of Islamic terrorist sect, Boko Haram. Fani-Kayode says the refusal of the US to classify the group as a terrorist organisation until 2014, contributed to its increased boldness. He would also criticise the Barrack Obama-led government for refusing to... Read More
Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, has revealed that Boko Haram insurgents were planning to bomb his house. Osinbajo stated this on Thursday, July 23, at the National Economic Council meeting with governors at the presidential villa in Abuja. The communique issued at the end of the meeting, contained the alarm made by Osinbajo. He said: “The Vice... Read More
Governors of the 36 states under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) has formally declared that it did not received any bail out fund from the federal government. The governor’s however stressed that they would continue to demand for their legitimate earnings in the Federation Account while also pledging to work with President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure coherent... Read More
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, the state governors heldthe National Economic Council meeting today. The meeting was chaired by Osinbajo in Aso Rock.
A businessman and foreign exchange dealer named Suleiman Yerima has been reported dead. He reportedly died while being detained in Kirikiri prison by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). According to PRNigeria, Yerima died last Friday during the end of Ramadan fasting prayers on the Muslim Praying Ground in Kirikiri prison. He suddenly slumped while... Read More
CNN correspondent Barbara Starr referred to Kenya as a “hotbed of terror” on Thursday. She said, “President Barack Obama is not just heading to his father’s homeland, but to a hotbed of terror.” This blunder immediately sparked an outrage on Twitter and the hashtag #SomeoneTellCNN started trending worldwide. See some of the tweets embedded below:... Read More
An APC chieftain in South Africa, Ken Dike, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari would restore discipline in Nigeria. Dike is the Secretary of APC in Gauteng Province of South Africa. He made the statement in an interview in Johannesburg on Thursday. He said, “One thing is certain; it will be no longer be business as usual. Buhari has... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the United States ‘aided and abetted’ the Boko Haram sect by refusing to provide weapons to Nigeria. A US law prevents the government from selling arms to countries which commits human rights abuses, the BBC reports. Buhari met President Barack Obama in Washington on Monday to seek further assistance.... Read More
It appears there’s a crack within the ranks of the Femi Gbajabiamila camp as some of his loyalists have reportedly disassociated themselves from a letter that came from their camp. The letter was addressed to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) John Odigie-Oyegun about the disputed power sharing deal. The Speaker Yakubu Dogara... Read More
Senate President Bukola Saraki has denied allegations by a news website that he received a bribe from former president Goodluck Jonathan to help him influence the Senate’s probe about the $20 billion believed to be missing from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) account. Saraki accused the news medium of smear campaign and acting the script of his... Read More
17-year-old Tobi George allegedly raped his younger sister and neighbor’s daughter. He is currently being investigated by the police at Alakara Division, Lagos. Vanguard reports that the ordeal started when the neighbor and her younger sister stayed over at his house from school. The naive young girl who didn’t know what was going on, recognized... Read More
Toyin Saraki, the wife of the senate president, has acknowledged the receipt of an invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The former first lady of Kwara says she is ready to assist the commission in “any lawful enquiries” that they intend to make. Saraki issued a statement on Wednesday through Akeem Olagoke, her private secretary,... Read More
A 10-year-old boy was allegedly buried alive by suspected occultic men in Ngwo, Enugu State. This was supposedly discovered as a result of a three-day fasting and prayer crusade organised to cleanse the community of evil. Apparently, the boy had been abducted along Independence Layout axis. He was found when a Catholic priest from Abia State, Reverend... Read More
Six Nigerian women have been rescued from the shackles of a pimp called Balikis, who tricked them into thinking they had greener pastures in Burkina Faso only to find out she allegedly shipped them out for prostitution. The Comptroller of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Oyo State Command, Innocent Akatu, while reuniting the girls with their... Read More
The National Broadcasting Commission claims to have successfully blocked the illegal Radio Biafra from operating, by jamming its signals. Last week, the Director General of NBC, Emeka Mba had said in Abuja: “We are working with security operatives, the Commission has also tracked down, neutralized and confiscated transmitter equipment from several locations in the region.” The commission... Read More
Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Sadiq Abubakar, says the Nigerian Air Force is re-assessing its strategy and formulating new tactics in its fight against Boko Haram. Abubakar said this on Wednesday, while on an operational visit to 97 Special Operations Group in Port Harcourt, Rivers. He said it was important for the Nigerian Air Force to... Read More
Winners Chapel International has been cleared of being complicit by a British agency, Charity Commission, in the alleged misappropriation of N3.4bn charity funds. According to Charity Commission, the probe into the church’s books were launched following complaints from an “investigative journalist.” The agency recently published the report of its findings, saying that Winners Chapel International, also known as... Read More
Earlier today, President Buhari met with some of his former classmates at the US War college. The class of 1980 met with Buhari in Blair House, Washington DC. See photos below:
Over 40 people have lost their lives as multiple bomb blasts exploded in two bus stations in Gombe state. Two bombs went off at the Dadin kowa motor park while the another one ripped through Tashan Dukku motor park. A rescue worker at Dadin Kowa revealed to AFP that: “So far we have recovered 12 dead bodies.”... Read More
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has maintained that nobody in Nigeria is above the law while insisting that the rule of the law is be maintained in the country. Osinbajo, who spoke at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, while receiving the leadership of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), who paid him a courtesy visit on Wednesday said there... Read More
A former Secretary to the Federal Government, Alhaji Aminu Saleh, is dead. Saleh, who was the SGF during late General Sanni Abacha’s regime, died on Wednesday morning, at the age of 87. He passed away at the Federal Medical Centre Azare, in Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi state, after a brief illness. A family source revealed to Vanguard... Read More
The police said they discovered high caliber bombs and IEDs in Yobe state recently. They tweeted this on Wednesday. Yobe has recorded series of suicide bomb attacks in recent times. See the embedded tweet below; RT “@PoliceNG_News: @PoliceNG#Yobe to brief PRESS on these recovered high caliber bombs &highly primed IED shortly pic.twitter.com/9jdzUR4cux“ — Nigeria Police... Read More
PRNigeria has said the Department of State Security (DSS) released former President Goodluck Jonathan’s security chief, Gordon Obuah, to go home on Tuesday night after an intensive debriefing. They disclosed this in a statement made available to the press on Wednesday. PRNigeria reported Obuah as telling reporters in Abuja, “Gentlemen of the press, let me use this... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari has said the federal government is looking into evidences that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of some former ministers and other government officials believed to be corrupt. Buhari said this at the Nigerian Embassy in Washington while answering questions at an interactive session with Nigerians in the Diaspora. He lamented that... Read More
A tyre of a Boeing 737-500 Aero Airlines aircraft burst yesterday during take-off at the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 (MMA2), Lagos. The report says the 141 passengers on board the Lagos-Abuja flight were scared as the pilot initiated a return. The spokesman of Aero Airlines, Simon Tumba, said the pilot took emergency steps by returning... Read More
A 23-year-old woman who was arrested by police in Rivers state has confessed that she stole a five-year-old boy from his parents. Punch reports that the suspect, Chisa Ejionwu, decided to steal the boy after she was told that her chances of having a baby were slim. Ejionwu said she stole the boy, Michael, at... Read More
President Buhari rejected gay marriage during one of his discussions in the US yesterday. His media spokesperson, Femi Adesina made the announcement on Twitter this afternoon.
The former Chief of Defence Staff Alex Badeh has officially handed over to the new Chief of Defence Staff, Abayomi Olonishakin. There was a formal handing over ceremony at the Defence Headquarters on Tuesday.
For about four hours now, some aggrieved parents have been protesting peacefully at the University of Lagos gate. Their grievance is that the school has refused to accept the Joint Admission Matriculations Board (JAMB)’s approved cutoff mark of 180 and has imposed its own cutoff mark of 250. They also want the Registrar of JAMB... Read More
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