Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode has accepted his loss in the Lagos State governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress. “I wholeheartedly congratulate the winner of the Lagos State APC Primaries, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and urge all Lagosians to immediately support our party’s gubernatorial candidate in the 2019 elections and work for the success of […]

A Nigerian policeman who served as a UN peacekeeper in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sent home and barred from peacekeeping after an investigation found he had sexually exploited a woman, a UN spokesman said Tuesday. The allegations against the Nigerian national date back to February and March 2017, but the woman later […]

The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have released the list of senate aspirants that have been cleared to contest the 2019 elections. The party published the list of aspirants cleared to run for the senate. In the list published on the party’s official website, the incumbent governors of Ogun and Oyo […]

The Federal Government has inaugurated a steering committee on the implementation of the 2017 Nigerian National Defence Policy. The Minister of Defence, Brig.-Gen. Mansur Muhammad Dan Ali, noted yesterday in Abuja that the prevailing security challenges necessitated the review of the document by President Muhammadu Buhari last year. He said the exercise was carried out […]

An All Progressives Congress governorship aspirant in Lagos Babajide Sanwo-Olu has defeated the state’s governor Akinwunmi Ambode to emerge the party’s governorship candidate in the next general elections. The state chairman of the party, Tunji Balogun, announced the outcome of the poll at Lagos APC headquarters Ogba, Ikeja, on Tuesday night. Sanwoolu emerged winner with […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday announced the Federal Government’s approval of a 90-day special window to register businesses at a reduced rate of N5000 only. A statement, signed by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President in Abuja, said that Osinbajo made the announcement […]