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Security agents believed to be personnel of the State Security Service (SSS) have arrested Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of news website, SaharaReporters. A statement by Mr. Sowore’s lawyer, Inibehe Effing, reads: “Mr Omoyele Sowore is currently in the custody of the SSS. His phones have been confiscated. This is a …

Godwin Jedy Agba One of Nigeria’s very experienced energy administrators, Mr. Godwin Jedy-Aba, is a minister-nominee of President Muhammadu Buhari. And there is, understandably, song and dance in the quarters of those who know the capacity and experience of the nominee in the oil and gas sector. But for those …

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday said that his administration would install closed-circuit television, (CCTVs), on highways and other strategic locations, noting that it would help to curtail and expose crimes. Responding to an address by the traditional rulers led by the Ooni of Ife , Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi during a …

The Imo State Government has taken over the Eastern Palm University, Ogboko and converted it to a campus of the Imo State University, Owerri. The 8th Imo Assembly had passed a law allotting 90 per cent equity shares to trustees of Rochas Foundation and 10 per cent to Imo state …

A West African Examination Council (WAEC) official has testified that President Muhammadu Buhari scored five credits in his O’ Level examination. Osideinde Henry Sunday Adewumi, Deputy Registrar in charge of School Registration for WAEC in Nigeria on Wednesday testified before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal that Buhari sat for eight …

Operation Puff Adder of the Bayelsa State Police Command at the weekend arrested four in-laws of the former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan over alleged involvement in the illegal entry into his home in Otuoke community in Ogbia Local Government Area and carting away jewellery, custom made walking stick and other …

The Presidency has reacted to the allegation made by the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) that the one billion dollars drawn from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) was spent by the Muhammadu Buhari administration on the 2019 general elections. The Peoples Democratic Party in a statement on Sunday asked Buhari to …

The Senate on Wednesday, confirmed the appointment of His. Justice Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria. The red chamber had on arrival of Muhammad into the chamber gone into attacking closed session to set the template for the screening. He was accompanied to the red chamber by …

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Femi Gbajabiamila’s choice of former Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon Anayo Nnebe as Special Assistant on political matters has divided the Southeast region. The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Anambra State, the Conference of Southeast APC Publicity Secretaries and the …

The Senate on Tuesday appealed to the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (SSASU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASUU) to shelve their planned nationwide strike in the interest of the country. The upper chamber promised to engage stakeholders to resolve their grievances. The resolution followed a point of …