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Cholera cases recorded in the last one month have reached 244 in Adamawa State, indicating an increase of 168 from 76 cases recorded in Yola North, Yola South and Girei councils of the state on June 17, 2019. Addressing journalists ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has charged Nigerians of all persuasions to reject the country’s alarmingly increasing debt profile, which the Debt Management Office (DMO) has put at over N24.947 trillion. He described the situation in which government continued to ...

Nigeria’s envoy to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Alhaji Hassan Ardo Jika, has urged former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida and former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Y. Danjuma (rtd.) to promote peace and national unity. He advised them ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has advised Nigerians not to allow disunity along ethnic and religious lines to undermine the country’s achievements and potential for future greatness. He made the assertion at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Military Training Centre in ...

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has said the 36 states of the federation could not fund their 2018 budgets despite receiving N4 trillion allocations for the period. The receipts cover earnings from the Federation Account and Allocation Committee ...

The Federal Government has been urged to tackle the prevailing insecurity for farmers to do their business and ensure food security nationwide. National Amir of The Companion (a group of Muslim professionals), Alhaji Thabit Wale Sonaike, made the call yesterday ...

The National Assembly has condemned its invasion by members of the Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzakky-led Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). Chairman, Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Adedayo Adeyeye, told reporters in Abuja that the unruly mob overpowered the ...

The Economic Community of West African States  (ECOWAS) Parliament has expressed concern over the United Nations High Commission on Refugees’ report that the sub-region constitutes 40 per cent of the world’s 70 million refugees and displaced persons. It blamed leadership ...

A group of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (MIN) known as Shi’ites has broken into the National Assembly complex premises, resulting in an exchange with security operatives. The Shi’ites broke down the first gate and proceeded to the second, which ...

Justice Chile Eboe-Osuji, President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has hinted that the global institution may assume jurisdiction over corruption cases in the future. In an interview in Abuja during his visit to Nigeria, Eboe-Osuji noted that embezzling funds ...