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President Muhammadu Buhari has received the iconic Archbishop of Canterbury Most Reverend Justin Welby at the Abuja House in London on Thursday, March 9. The President himself confirmed the meeting…
The House of Representatives on Thursday asked the Federal Government to declare Kogi, Enugu and Anambra as oil producing states. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion jointly moved…
A trial that lasted almost 12 years reached a milestone on Thursday when Justice Ishaq Bello of the FCT High Court, Abuja, sentenced two police officers, Ezekiel Acheneje and Emmanuel…
The United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, on Wednesday said Nigeria would be saving $1.5 billion annually by investing in maternal health. The Deputy Representative of UNFPA, Eugene Kongnyuy, made the…
A would-be teenage suicide bomber has said Boko Haram militants paid her just 200 naira ($0.64) to blow herself up in a city in northeast Nigeria. In footage obtained by…
Several people are believed to have died and many others injured in an ethnic clash in Ile-Ife, Osun State. Properties worth millions of Naira were also destroyed in the violence…
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has described the wife of Nigeria’s late former Head of State, Mrs. Maryam Abacha as a courageous, peaceful and loving woman. Governor Dickson…
The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees , Walid Jubril, says the party’s leaders are ready to visit and sympathise with President Muhammadu Buhari in London.…
The only Nigerian Senator elected on the platform of the Labour Party, Ovie Omo-Agege, has decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress. Mr. Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central, announced his defection…
A High Court in Yola, Adamawa State, has convicted and jailed former Gov. Bala James Ngilari for failing to adhere to the procurement laws of the state. In a 75-minute…