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The Good Governance and Leadership Project in Nigeria (GGLPN) has alleged that the Nigerian Police was embarking on media trial in the Taraba Intelligence Response Team (IRT) killings with the motive of influencing the outcome. In compliance with President Muhammadu ...

President Muhammadu Buhari promised that his administration would invest more in infrastructure, expressing happiness over the positive results of previous spending. Buhari, who was speaking during the commissioning of the reconstructed Shinkafi-Yandaki-Gafiya-Abdallawa-Dankaba road in Katsina State, noted that “infrastructure is ...

Criminals awaiting execution may have received a lifeline following President Muhammadu Buhari’s assent to a new law. The approval came three months after the dissolution of the Eighth National Assembly, which passed the bill. The new legislation, known as Nigerian ...

Bayelsa State Governor Henry Seriake Dickson will today swear in the newly elected chairmen of the state’s eight councils. The chairmen emerged from last Saturday’s poll conducted by the Bayelsa State Independent Electoral Commission (BYSIEC). His Special Adviser on Public ...

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has promised that his government will not marginalise any zone in the state. Speaking in Ogbomoso during his Sallah visit to Oyo North senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, ...

Considering the inability of the present government to arrest threatening national challenges, South-South Emerging Leaders’ Forum (SELF) has described as unfortunate the booting of former President Goodluck Jonathan out of Aso Villa in 2015. Chairman of the forum, Dr. Preye ...

Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Imo State chapter, Austin Chilakpu, has described as “too much” the appointment of 43 ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari. He therefore urged the president to merge the ministries to save cost of governance ...

A civil society group, the Extra Step Initiative (ESI) has sued the Federal Government and the Joint Military Task Force (Operation Delta Safe) for the continuous pollution of the environment in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The group, which launched Stop ...

A new state of the climate report has confirmed that 2018 was the fourth warmest year in record dating back from the mid-1800s. It found that the major indicators of climate change continued to reflect trends consistent with a warming ...

Commander of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Major-General Augustine Agundu, has said the need to reinforce security in the hinterlands and check communal crisis informed the withdrawal of OPSH troops from checkpoints. He stressed that the decision to withdraw troops from ...