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  Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday congratulated Mr Jair Bolsonaro on his victory in Brazil’s presidential election run-off on Sunday. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President also felicitated with the people of Brazil for successfully going through …

Alex Enumah in Abuja The Ukrainian Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Valerii Alesandruk, has said Nigeria has the potential to become a hub for Africa in the area of space development, if she is determined to launch further into space. While admitting that Nigeria is not just only a big country …

  Ugo Aliogo The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday sustained its intervention in the foreign exchange (forex) market as authorised dealers in the wholesale segment received the sum of $100 million to meet the requests of their customers. The CBN also allocated the sum of $55million each to the …

• Police arrest 400 Olawale Ajimotokan and Alex Enumah in Abuja A police vehicle was burned while scores of people were injured yesterday in Wuse 2, Abuja, during the violent protest by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shiites. The police in a statement last …

Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Governor Abdul’Aziz Yari (Zamfara State), addressing a press conference in Abuja on June 28, 2018. The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has agreed to pay the sum of N22, 500 as new minimum wage for workers, as against the existing N18,000. Chairman of the Forum …

Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and other passengers narrowly escaped death on a troubled Arik Air flight from Port Harcourt to Lagos, according to eyewitnesses. The incident, related by Grend Miebaka Ibimina and Oraye St. Franklyn in a written account making the rounds among Amaechi’s allies on …

ABUJA— United Nations and Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, said they have received assurances from President Muhammadu Buhari as well as the nation’s security agencies of a free, fair and credible general election next year. This was disclosed by a delegation from the Joint Mission of Economic Community …

Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo has appealed to traditional rulers in the country to support both the Federal and State Governments in the fight against insecurity, saying that collective effort was needed to tackle the menace. A statement in Benin on Tuesday, signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor …

Muhammadu Buhari  Fashola: President’s win will ensure handover to S-West in 2023 Obinna Chima in Lagos, Omololu Ogunmade and Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research unit of The Economist Magazine, has predicted that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, …

The former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd), will in January 2019 address the United Kingdom Parliament over the incessant killings in North-central part of Nigeria, especially between herdsmen and farmers. Danjuma was earlier scheduled to speak to select leaders of the British House of Lords on September 5, …