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The Senator representing the Lagos East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Distinguished Senator Mukhail Adetokunbo Abiru, FCA has charged Nigerians to strengthen the chord of national unity and peaceful co-existence. Senator Abiru gave the goodwill message in commemoration of the 61st anniversary of Nigeria’s independence on Friday. The Lagos …

President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that the suspension on Twitter’s operation in Nigeria has been lifted. The president disclosed this in his Nigeria’s 61st Independence Day broadcast obtained by Daily Record. According to President Buhari, while efforts were ongoing to prevent further misuse of social media, the suspension of Twitter …

Says 8000 Boko Haram fighters have surrendered President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria is winning the war against insurgency. The president further disclosed that over 8000 Boko Haram terrorists have surrendered to the military in the northeastern region of Nigeria. He made this known while delivering a state broadcast to the …

The police on Friday dispersed a group of protesters in Abuja, firing teargas at them, Daily Record reports. The youths came out in their numbers on Friday morning all carrying placards which had the inscriptions #BuhariMustGo. They also carried a large banner with #RevolutionNow written on it while moving in …

As the nation marks its 61st Independence anniversary amidst so much insecurity and other areas of anxiety, the Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins has assured Nigerians that a bright future still lies ahead provided there is sincerity of purpose and the will to be just and equitable …

Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari has issued a statement on the death of Dr. Chike Akunyili, husband to late NAFDAC DG, Dora Akunyili. The President expressed deep sadness over the development. It can be recalled that Chike was gruesomely murdered by unknown gunmen in Anambra state. The statement, signed by Femi …

Chike Akunyili, husband to late former Information Minister and former director-general of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Dora Akunyili, has been reportedly murdered by gunmen. This newspaper gathered that he was killed at Umuoji in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State on Tuesday evening. …

A federal high court in Abuja has prohibited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from retrying Orji Kalu, former governor of Abia state, on allegations of money laundering. The EFCC had prosecuted Kalu alongside Ude Udeogu, a former director of finance and accounts with the Abia state government, and …

BUA Chairman, Abdul Samad Rabiu Abdul Samad Rabiu, chairman of BUA Group, is under fire for unduly publicising the donation of a Rolls Royce Phantom car worth N200 million and alleged N100 million cash donation to Aminu Ado Bayero, the Emir of Kano, following the security crisis in the country. …

Professor Sanusi Mamman, the vice-chancellor of the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina State, is currently enmeshed in an alleged romance scandal with a student of the university. According to a report by Daily Nigerian, the vice-chancellor has threatened to withdraw his girlfriend from the university if she discloses that she …