FORMER president Dr Goodluck Jonathan narrowly escaped death yesterday evening after he was involved in a car crash in Abuja that resulted in the death of two members of his security detail.
While on his, way to his Abuja residence from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Dr Jonathan was involved in a ghastly accident...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari slipped back into Abuja last night unnoticed after spending a two week medical vacation in the UK where he met with his doctors over an undisclosed health condition.
Earlier this month, President Buhari flew into London for what his spokesman Femi Adesina said would be routine medical checks that...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has dumbfounded political commentators by making a surprise return to Abuja this morning after attending the United Nations Environmental Programme (Unep) 50th anniversary in Kenya.
Over the last three days, the president has been in Nairobi the Kenyan capital from where he had been expected to fly...
PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Femi Adesina has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari will not allow himself to be intimidated by clergymen and their prophecies as happened to General Sani Abacha when he was in Aso Rock.
Nigerian clergymen and women have made it a habit of making sweeping predictions at the turn of the year,...
NIGERIA and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have finally resolved their aviation dispute that has resulted in the federal government reinstating its approval for Emirates Airlines’ winter flight schedule consisting of 21 weekly passenger flights into the country.
Last year, Nigeria barred Emirates Airlines from operating in...
NIGERIA'S largest commercial airline Air Peace has said it did not receive any official notification about the lifting of flight restrictions by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that was supposed to normalise aviation operations between the two countries.
Over the last year, Nigeria and the UAE have been involved in a bitter...
THIRTEEN different consortia have submitted bids for consideration to manage Nigeria's four main international airports under the new tendering programme launched last week by the Independent Concession and Regulatory Commission (ICRC).
Under the scheme, the numerous consortia, made up of both local and foreign companies,...
NIGERIA has just taken delivery over 4m doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine from the US received by United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) officials in Abuja as President Joe Biden fulfils his pledge to assist poorer countries with vaccination.
Upon assuming office in January, President Biden promised to assist poor and...
NIGERIAN health officials have declared 89 people persons of interest and has threatened sanctions against them for violating coronavirus protocols after they arrived in the country from abroad and refused to go into quarantine.
On May 10, the federal government announced another phase of restrictions in addition to the...
ABOUT 359 of the Nigerian pilgrims who were left stranded in Saudi Arabia have returned to Abuja today after the Nigerian Diaspora Commission (Nidcom) helped facilitate their return to the country.
Around this time last year at the height of the global pandemic, around 11,600 Nigerians were left stranded in Saudi Arabia by...
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