President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged Nigerian universities to intensify their research in order to develop COVID-19 vaccine to tackle the dreaded virus afflicting the country. The President, represented by the Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, gave the challenge at the 5th and 6th combined convocation of...
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By HARUNA AHMED, Gasau – Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle has expressed optimism that the Federal government’s proposed legal framework on mining would end banditry in the state. Governor Matawalle in a statement signed on Friday by Malam Yusuf Idris, his Director-General Media Public Enlightenment and Communication, commended President...
President Muhammadu Buhari has again directed security agencies to urgently address the resurgence of kidnapping and other crimes on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway and on other roads across the country. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said the president gave the directive while presiding over the meeting of the National...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, says the plan of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is to be victorious at the polls. Governor Sule, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday, said the party was treading with caution in...
Mr Saliu Mustapha, one of the front line aspirants for the the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmanship position, says history will be kind to President Muhammadu Buhari for efforts to enthrone good leadership in the country. Mustapha said this in a statement by his Media Officer, Mr Dapo Okubanjo,...
Human rights group Amnesty International has dismissed the Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed’s claims on the panel report on Police brutality and the EndSARS protests, saying his position is not surprising to them. The minister had during a briefing in Abuja, described the report submitted by the Lagos...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and civil society organisations on Monday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill. The National Assembly has passed the bill and transmitted the document to President Buhari on November 19 for assent. While the Executive Director, Policy and...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved February 2022 for the conduct of the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum and Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, announced this on Monday in Abuja. He briefed State House correspondents after a meeting with the President...
President Muhammadu Buhari says peace has become an elusive subject that affects development in many regions of Africa. The Nigerian leader stated this when he declared open the 9th General Assembly of the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM), on Monday in Abuja. According to him, the activities of...
With presidential election results from all but one of Nigeria’s 36 states counted, and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Muhammadu Buhari, clearly in unassailable lead, President Jonathan had telephoned Mr. Buhari to concede defeat. At the time the call was made, the Independent National Electoral Commission was...
Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held a closed door meeting on Sunday night in Abuja. Meeting under the aegis of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) were the host governor and chairman of the group, Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi, his counterparts from Kwara, Imo,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari says the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership has steadily showed that the party is the most organised, well-structured and fully motivated platform for bringing development to the country. Buhari said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja while felicitating Gov....
As the world marks the 2021 World Toilet Day (WTD) on Friday, UNICEF has said the states of Abia, Zamfara, and Akwa-Ibom rank least while Kwara, Plateau, and Ebonyi rank highest in open defecation in Nigeria. According to it, there has been limited progress over the last two years...
The National Economic Council (NEC) says President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a fresh N656 billion Bridge Financing Facility to the 36 States. Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, disclosed this on Thursday at a virtual NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, which...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Capital Territory Administration has flagged off mass vaccination campaign against the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, targeting over 1.5 million residents in the next 50 days across the six area councils. FCT Minister of State, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, while performing the exercise...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari followed up an earlier phone call to the Dangote family in Kano by sending a delegation to represent him at the burial of Alhaji Sani Dangote, Aliko’s younger brother who died after a protracted illness in the United States. The body...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated former President Goodluck Jonathan on his 64 birthday anniversary, slated for Nov. 17. In a statement by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on Tuesday in Abuja, Buhari congratulated Jonathan for serving the country, and working for the peace and...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the United Nations over what it describes as a vicious assault on Justice Mary Odili. SERAP specifically urged Mr. Diego García-Sayán, the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, to “put pressure...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Nigeria Army has disowned a publication attributed to it about “Defence Headquarters warning soldiers against overthrowing Buhari’s regime”. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Saturday, said the publication, which was riddled with outrageous lies and fabrications, claimed...
The Federal Government has said no fewer than 67 million people have registered for National Identification Number (NIN), which is the foundation for economy growth and national security. The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Mallam Isa Pantami, disclosed this in Paris at the Nigeria international Partnership Forum held...