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Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, says from the look of things, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s office has been rendered useless, impotent and irrelevant. It, however, said it would be too early to speculate if Osinbajo’s “ordeal” was caused by any misdemeanor on his part or if it was based on permutations ahead …

African countries’ Drug Law Enforcement Agencies. The Head of Public Affairs, Mr Jonah Achema, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said that Abdallah’s emergence was a testimony to the performance-driven leadership of the agency. Achema added that NDLEA was also widely regarded as a leading light …

Accompanied by the Executive Director of Projects, Hon Daniel Mayuku, Executive Director of Finance and Administration, Hon John Nani, Executive Director Statistics, Shedrack Agedigha and Hon Leonard Anoka, amongst others, the managing Director of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Askia Ogieh, commissioned a 6-classroom block with …

The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has said the officer who initiated the request to the banks for senators and Judicial memnbers bank details was unacquainted with the fact that the NFIU already had access to such information through its database, saying that the Senate President, the Speaker of the House …

The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, on Monday said it was untrue that he was planning to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. Melaye, on his official twitter handle @dino-melaye, stated that APC will be defeated in Kogi …

No fewer than 319 Nigerians will be evacuated from South Africa on Tuesday. It was learnt that arrangements for the evacuation would be tidier than the previous one, which was done on Wednesday. The Federal Government had on Wednesday evacuated 187 Nigerians from South Africa following xenophobic attacks by its …

President Buhari at the maiden Federal Executive Council meeting of his renewed mandate, approved contracts for roads across Nigeria, worth over N182bn, Presidency has said. According to the information on the Instagram handle of a presidential aide, Buhari Sallau, the following are the approved road projects: 1. Lagos-Badagry expressroad to …

There is trouble in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party following former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s loss at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. The development, it was gathered, has made some members of Board of Trustees of the PDP to travel to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday (today) …

Nearly 22,000 Nigerians have been reported missing in the North-east region due to a decade of conflict in the area, according to the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer. Maurer told reporters Thursday in Lagos that the figure is the highest number of missing …

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday morning received another batch of 158 Nigerians from Libya. Alhaji Idris Muhammed, the Head of NEMA Territorial Office in Lagos, told newsmen that the agency received the returnees on behalf of the Federal Government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that …