PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has added his voice the growing condemnation of the recent murder of Sokoto education student Deborah Samuel who was lynched by an irate mob yesterday for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed.
Ms Samuel, 22, a 200 Level student as the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, was stoned to death before...
SENATE chief whip Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has told Nigeria's 40m Igbos that they cannot get the presidential ticket of any party in the country under the current open contest arrangement we have today and need a arrangement conceding the office to the southeast.
Next year, Nigeria goes to the polls and already the battle for...
FORMER president Dr Goodluck Jonathan has been warned by the Coalition of South East Youth Leaders (Coseyl) to shelve his 2023 presidential plans amid talk that he has now formally joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Earlier this week, several northern campaign groups got to getter and bother an APC presidential...
EDUCATION minister Emeka Nwajiuba has tendered his resignation from the Federal Executive Council in line with the dictates of President Muhammadu Buhari who asked all his ministers standing for election to stand down.
This week, President Buhari asked all his ministers who were standing for president and other offices to...
FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has lashed out at the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari saying that the current government has divided Nigerians more than at any other time in the nation's history.
Alhaji Abubakar who was number two to President Olusegun Obasanjo between 1999 and 2007 is...
NATIONAL security adviser Retired Major General Babagana Monguno has attributed the failure to combat the growing insecurity in the country to the inability to get hold of adequate technology which he blamed on a difficult procurement process.
Nigeria is currently being wracked by chronic insecurity with kidnapping,...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been accused by the Conference of Northern States Civil Society Networks (CNSCSN) of demoralising the nation’s anti-corruption agencies with his granting of amnesties to convicted looters.
Last week, President Buhari took the bizarre step of pardoning 159 convicts including two former...
WORLD Bank officials have urged the Nigerian government to rethink its fuel subsidy regime as the policy is not only bleeding the treasury dry but also has the counter-productive effect of assisting the rich rather than the poor who it was designed to help.
Last week, Nigeria's senate approved a sum of N4trn ($9.62bn) to be...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has told the chief prosecutor of International Criminal Court (ICC) that the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria is sheer criminal behaviour that has nothing to do with religion or ethnicity.
Since 2009, Boko Haram insurgents have been fighting a war with the Nigerian state, seeking to establish an...
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has taken the bizarre step of pardoning 159 convicts including two former governors who were convicted for financial malpractices in what appears to be an open negation of his administration's anti-corruption policy.
In 2015, President Buhari was elected with a promise to clean out corruption in...