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As Nigeria continues to prosecute the war against insurgents, the presidency has announced that six of the twelve Super Tucanos to be used by the military are on track to arrive in mid-July 2021.     According to a statement released by the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on …

Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the 2019 presidential election.   The Bauchi state Governor in an interview on Channels Television, claimed that fraud on the part of either INEC or security operatives cost his party the election.   Bala also added that …

Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina state has explained why kidnappers prefer carrying out their activities in Nigeria and not in Mali and other countries in the Sahelian region.   In an interview on Channels Television, the Chairman of the North-West Governors’ Forum stressed that Nigeria is economically attractive to kidnappers …

A Kano bride who faked her kidnap because she didn’t want her wedding to hold, has explained why she made the decision.   It was reported earlier that Amina Gwani Danzarga was kidnapped 48 hours to her wedding, while on her way back from Dorayi quarters where she went to drop her exams card. …

“If Nyako and people who think like him have any conscience left, let them raise a voice against the current politics of deceit, the mismanagement of our diversity and the scourge of insecurity now undermining the very basis of our national survival.” On 16th April 2014, the Northern Governors Forum …

Ahmed Audi, the Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) has said that bandits in the country have international sponsors.   Speaking at a training workshop for state commandants of the NSCDC in Abuja on Wednesday March 17, Audi stated that the asymmetric war witnessed in the country …

Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state has approved the appointment of Princess Catherine Oludunni Odu as the Secretary to the State Government.   Before her appointment, Odu who holds degrees in Law, Sociology and Industrial Sociology from the University of Lagos, University of Benin and the University of Calabar respectively, was the …

From Uche Usim, Abuja Nigeria’s total public debt has risen to N32.9 trillion as at December 31, 2020. The Debt Management Office, (DMO), which made the disclosure in a statement on Monday noted that the debt stock grew by N700 billion within three months from N32.2 trillion as at the end …

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has dismissed the reported increase in Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, insisting that the ex-depot price of the commodity will not be increased in March. Relatedreading WHO Experts to Review AstraZeneca Vaccine as Germany, France, Italy, Spain Halt Rollout FG Sets Dates To Re-open Kano, …

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has alleged that the Central Bank of Nigeria is playing politics with its agriculture development loans to states.   Recounting how his state was denied of the loan by the apex bank while hosting the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development Mustapha Shehuri on Monday March …