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The Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has urged Muslims across the country to look for the new moon of Shawwal on Tuesday. The advice was contained in a statement issued by the Deputy Secretary-General, NSCIA, Prof. …

A former minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha-Jummai Alhassan, has died at the age of 61. Suleiman Dantsoho, her former media aide, confirmed the death, saying she died at a Cairo hospital on Friday afternoon. She was appointed minister in 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari to represent Taraba …

INEC had deregistered the political parties last year over their inability to win any election during the 2019 general elections Supreme Court on Friday upheld an earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal which consented to the deregistration of National Unity Party and 73 others the Independent National Electoral Commission, …

The Director-General of National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Halilu Shaba has revealed that Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists have become sophisticated in their mode of operations. According to him, waves received by the agency from remote areas show the bandits no longer use Global System for Mobile Communication …

An attack by suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Monday at Ajiri, in Mafa local government, was aided with the support of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the community, PRNigeria reports. The insurgents, it was learnt, carted away five vehicles and killed 15 Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) members, 10 civilians …

REMARKS BY GOVERNOR HOPE UZODIMMA ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESENTATION OF SECURITY VEHICLES AND GADGETS TO OPERATION SEARCH AND FLUSH TEAM, ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 5TH, 2021. Today’s event heralds the presentation of more vehicles and security gadgets to our Operation Search and Flush team. It is a bold statement …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the calls for secession might lead to extermination of minority groups in the country. The former President said this while receiving the Tiv Professional Group (TPG) from Benue State, who paid him a courtesy visit in Abeokuta on Wednesday May 5. Recounting how a …

National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Francis Wale Oke, says he has started praying for the removal of President Buhari who according to him has failed woefully in the discharge of his duty.   According to Bishop Oke, Nigeria during the civil war did not witness as …

Two security guards sustained injuries, as the Court’s library Suspected hoodlums on Tuesday burnt down parts of the Federal High Court, Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital. In the latest attack which happened in the early hours of Tuesday, two security guards sustained injuries, as the court library was badly burnt, …

President Buhari on Monday, April 19, received briefing from Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the State House in Abuja. The President returned to the country last Thursday, April 15, after spending 16 days in London where he went to see his doctors for his routine medical checkup.