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Archbishop of Metropolitan See of Lagos, The Most Reverend Alfred Adewale Martins, says since Nigeria was a secular nation, President Buhari should not have attended the OIC meeting at a time the citizens were opposing alleged Fulanisation of the country. ...
Read More »Shehu Sani reacts to defending President Buhari, insists OIC not religious organisation
Representative of Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has reacted to his defense of President Muhammadu Buhari for attending Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Saudi Arabia. President Buhari had earlier been criticised for attending the OIC summit, which ...
Read More »Northern youths reject Gbajabiamila for House of Reps Speaker, ACF lists qualities for Ninth N’Assembly lawmakers
The Arewa Youth Awareness Forum (AYAF) has said the North will oppose attempt to foist Femi Gbajabiamila as Speaker of the House of Representatives, saying his membership of the eighth National Assembly was full of controversies. In a statement issued ...
Read More »NCAA cancels Execujet pilot’s operating licence
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has revoked the licence of an Execujet Airline pilot over alleged violation of aviation regulations. Although it withheld the name and airline of the pilot, the regulator disclosed that the sanction was the consequence ...
Read More »PDP lambastes presidency for silence over Sagay’s ‘attack’ on Supreme Court
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has decried presidency’s silence on alleged attacks on justices of the Supreme Court by Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) Professor Itse Sagay. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, it ...
Read More »Buhari sends delegation to support Nigerian candidate for UNGA presidency
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a Federal Government delegation to support Nigeria’s candidate, Professor Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, who is vying for United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) president in New York on Tuesday. Professor Bande, who is Nigeria’s Permanent Representative at the ...
Read More »Nigeria, Ghana sign pact on cross-border search, rescue
Nigeria and Ghana have signed an agreement to enhance cross-border joint search and rescue exercise in air traffic-related emergencies. The pact, signed by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in Lagos, stipulates guidelines ...
Read More »Buhari, APC worsening poverty of Nigerians, say PNP, Timi Frank
Cleric urges fairness in choice of cabinet members National Chairman of the People Nigeria Party (PNP) and Presidential Candidate in the last election, Professor Peter Nwangwu has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has offered nothing but induced poverty and ...
Read More »Why Adams Oshiomhole ran into trouble in APC, by Odigie-Oyegun
Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has explained why his successor, Adams Oshiomhole, ran into trouble in running the parry’s affairs. Reacting to a statement by chairmen of South-South APC states chapters who blamed ...
Read More »Police, group disagree on alleged plot to criminalise Yoruba, Igbo youths, Adams, Odumakin, Babatope task S’West governors on loyalty
A Yoruba socio-cultural group, Apapo O’odua Koya, (AOKOYA), has alleged that dozens of Yoruba and Igbo youths were about being framed up by the police high command with kidnappings. It claimed that the force was deploying its covert code-name ‘Operation ...
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