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IGP Usman Alkali Baba The Inspector General of Police (IGP) has streamlined the investigation processes in the Police Force with a view to checking duplication through indiscriminate transfers of cases. The IGP said the departmental system of investigating cases has led to the duplication of the process which has been …

Femi Fan-Kayode and Ex-President Obasanjo A former Aviation minister Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the endorsement of Labour Party’s Peter Obi by his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, describing the action as the biggest mistake of the former president. Obasanjo had in a four-page letter endorsed Peter Obi, and …

INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) again cautioned Nigerians against a purported portal for the recruitment of ad hoc staff 2023 general election. INEC said this in a short message by Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi on Tuesday in Abuja. Oyekanmi …

ASUU The Academic Staff Union Universities (ASUU) and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) have advised Nigerians to vote for leaders who will invest in education. The National Presidents of ASUU and ASUP, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke and Dr Anderson Ezeibe, respectively, told Punch in an interview that the only …

Muhammadu Buhari Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president, on Tuesday signed into law the 2023 appropriation bill of N21.83 trillion. Buhari signed the bill at the Council Chambers of the State House in Abuja. The National Assembly had last week passed the bill, representing an increase of N1.32 trillion from Buhari’s N20.51 …

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has arrived Kano State Northwest Nigeria, ahead of the APC presidential rally scheduled to hold on Wednesday. According to APC United Kingdom, which disclosed this in an amateur video posted on its Facebook page, Tinubu arrived the Mallam Aminu …

Obasanjo and Tinubu Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday lampooned former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for declaring support for one of the presidential hopefuls, Labour Party’s Peter Obi. In a special New Year message …

Uzoma Obi Colonel Anthony Uzoma Obi (rtd), a former military governor of Osun state, has died. His death was announced by his family in a statement on Monday. “We, the Family of His Excellency, Rtd Colonel Anthony Uzoma Obi, humbly announce the gentle passing of our Patriarch and head of …

Pa Ayo Adebanjo, leader of Pan-Yoruba sociopolitical group, has said Nigeria will be in trouble if any candidate other than Peter Obi, presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, is elected president in 2023. This as the elder statesman hailed Obi’s endorsement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He however said he …

Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Sokoto State governor, the deputy governor, Alhaji Manir Dan’Iya, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Saidu Umar and several PDP stalwarts in Sokoto escaped death as hoodlums attacked their convoy on Sunday evening. Their convoy was reportedly attacked while returning from campaign rallies in Silame local …