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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari at the weekend pleaded with university lecturers to minimise strikes and back the Federal Government in its quest to provide qualitative education and right the prevailing anomalies in the sector. Speaking as the Visitor of Ahmadu Bello ...

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday alleged that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) “are desperate to remain in power at all cost so as to continue to exploit Nigerians, protect their corrupt leaders, cover ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed security chiefs to immediately end armed banditry, kidnapping and other criminal acts ravaging parts of the north. He specifically mandated the military, police and other security agencies to rout the bandits terrorising Zamfara, Katsina and ...

The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North-central, Mr. Ahmed Suleiman Wambi, has given reasons President Muhammadu Buhari and other party leaders settled for Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila as Senate President and Speaker of ...

The Dakuku Peterside led management at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has taken a radical departure from other past managements promoting its staff as at when due these past three (3) years. According to our correspondence, sources ...

Scores of youths from Umuagwo, Ohaji/Egbema Local Council have protested against the relocation and upgrade of Imo State Polytechnic to University of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Aboh /Ngor/Umuagwo by Governor Rochas Okorocha. Reacting via a statement by his Chief Press ...

The Ekiti State government has disclosed that three Nigeria Army will soon establish three command secondary schools in the state. Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Foluso Daramola, who made this known in Ado-Ekiti, said arrangements have almost been concluded ...

Law will worsen poverty, group insists as HURIWA seeks EFCC’s probe Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson has declined signing the bill seeking life pension for former lawmakers as proposed and passed by the state House of Assembly last week. The ...

A member of the Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), Dr. Sidi Ali Mohammed has disclosed that Boko Haram fighters receive $3000 (an equivalent of N1, 080,000 daily) as allowance, while Nigerian soldiers get a paltry N1000. He spoke ...

 The Senate has ordered the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Okechukwu Enelamah, and Acting Managing Director of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), Terhemba Nongo, to return N14.3 billion of the agency’s 2017 budget votes to the treasury. ...