President Muhammadu Buhari The government has never rested or relaxed her will to fight insurgency, banditry, kidnappings and other criminal elements. We want to state that Nigerians should not be cajoled by sentimental persons who don’t mean well for them but should understand that this government is for them.” He also expressed gratitude to the President …

Garba Shehu By Idowu Bankole The Presidency has reacted to criticisms that trailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s Independence Day speech, where he said it made no sense for petrol to be sold cheaper in Nigeria than in Saudi Arabia. Speaking at channels television’s politics today, The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, …

Three White House reporters have tested positive for COVID-19 Friday following President Trump’s announcement that he and first lady Melania have contracted the virus. All three journalists were in the White House over the last week; the building’s medical unit is conducting contact tracing for each of them, according to the White House Correspondents’ Association. …

President Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, has reportedly contracted the coronavirus. The 42-year-old is experiencing mild flu-like symptoms and tested positive Friday evening, Politico reported. Stepien now becomes the fourth person on the White House’s debate prep team to test positive for the virus. The others are Kellyanne Conway, who announced Friday night that she …

Pakistani authorities have barred the media from reporting on the gang rape of a mother in front of her young children that attracted global outcry after a top cop blamed the victim. The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority ordered television channels and newspapers to cease from doing follow-up reporting after police said “reckless” coverage might …

Indian PM, Narendra Modi India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rose past 100,000 on Saturday, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the U.S. and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating. Total deaths rose to 100,842, the health ministry said, while the tally of infections climbed …

By Chioma Onuegbu OPERATIVES of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Akwa Ibom State Police command has killed a six-man armed robbery gang who specializes in snatching vehicles at gunpoint in Akwa Ibom and Cross River States. The state Commissioner of Police Mr Andrew Amiengheme who disclosed this to newsmen at the police headquarters, Ikot Akpan …

U.S. President Donald Trump wears a mask while visiting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., July 11, 2020. PHOTO: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump is moving to a military hospital for treatment after being diagnosed with COVID-19, the White House said on Friday, as his administration and election campaign scrambled to adjust …

•Ondo First Lady, Betty Anyanwu Akeredolu Wife of Ondo state governor, Mrs. Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has described BEMORE girls as barriers breakers and problem solvers. Mrs. Anyanwu-Akeredolu made this assertion during the Market Community Entry programme organized for market women at Okitipupa and Ilaje Local Government Areas held at the Williams Event Center, Igbokoda, where BEMORE girls …

Kidnap …says ransom paid but they are still in captivity By Ibrahim HassanWuyo The Christian Solidarity Worldwide Nigeria (CSWN), has expressed worry over the four school children and their teacher, who were forcefully abducted by armed men from their school in August,2020. The group said although ransom was paid, the children and teachers have continued to …

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State. Governor  Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has congratulated his Bayelsa counterpart, Sen. Douye Diri, on his victory at the Appeal Court on Friday. He said that the verdict of the appellate court was a welcomed development, adding that the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, which nullified Diri’s election earlier, ought not …

Lai Mohammed The federal government says with the linkage of 156km Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line to Apapa seaport and construction of dry port in Omi Adio, near Ibadan, the perennial congestion in Apapa will be a thing of past. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this on Friday when he featured …

…Restructure Nig for good governance, justice, equity, fairness …New constitution that guarantees referendum …Parliamentary system of govt, state police, true federalism …Outlaw ethnicity, nepotism, discrimination …General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Edwin Clark; General I B M Haruna, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Afenifere, Middle Belt Forum and Arewa Consultative Forum speak The regional fathers from the North, the South, the East …

By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Sam Oyadongha, Festus Ahon, Ike Uchechukwu, Davies Iheamnachor and Emem Idio HOUSEWIVES in the South-South region have disproved the claim by the Presidency that prices of food items have dropped in the country, following the agricultural reforms of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), describing it as deceptive. …

A map of Nigeria Buhari has to convince Christians there’s no islamisation agenda By Sam Eyoboka A RENOWNED Global Mission Leader, President and CEO of The Para-Mallam Peace Foundation, public peace advocate for the release of Dapchi school girl, Leah Sharibu, remaining Chibok girls and several other Christian faithful including aid workers, Reverend Gideon Para-Mallam …

President Muhammadu Buhari By FEMI ADESINA President Muhammadu Buhari came sparkling as Nigeria marked her Diamond Jubilee on Thursday, October 1. In the National Broadcast to commemorate the day, the President fired on all cylinders. He was forthright, matter-of-fact, not pulling punches. It was moment of truth, hour of reckoning, and he just said it as …

Gov Diri The Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum has congratulated Gov. Duoye Diri of Bayelsa State over the Court of Appeal judgment in his favour. The appeal court set aside the judgment of the Bayelsa State Election Tribunal which nullified his election. Chairman of the PDP Governor’s Forum, Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, congratulated Diri …

A Senior Magistrates’ Court in Lokoja on Friday ordered that a 69-year-old traditional ruler in Adavi Local Government, Asema Uka (Otumi-Ajoko) Momoh Nasir and 10 others be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged homicide. The police charged the traditional ruler and his alleged accomplices with Criminal Conspiracy, Attempted Culpable Homicide, Aiding and Abetting, contrary to sections …

Combined security operatives on Friday embarked on a show of force in some riverine communities of Ondo State during which they destroyed a suspected criminal camp at Asere in Ese-Odo Local Government Area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the operatives comprising of the Nigerian Army, Navy, Police and other security agencies destroyed …

Sinopec and Glencore battle to take over Chevron’s assets in South Africa, Botswana Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) says it will downsize its workforce in Nigeria by 25 per cent across various levels in the oil firm, a development frowned at by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). The oil firm said …