Local manufacturers have kicked against directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that dealers should stop opening form M for payments that are routed through a buying company or any other third party. According to the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), the good intention of the apex bank is inimical to the survival of […]

Nigeria’s ex-leader and ECOWAS Special Envoy to Mali, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, again yesterday, visited the Villa to brief his successor, President Muhammadu Buhari, on the latest development in the landlocked West African country currently managed by the Colonel Assimi Goita-led junta. The briefing comes ahead of tomorrow’s extraordinary virtual summit of the sub-regional’s heads of […]

It no longer news that the Ekiti State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been in the trenches following the determination of the major tendencies to take over the structure of the party at all cost without giving room for compromise. The two camps, that is, the camp of ex-Governor Ayodele Fayose and Senator […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s insistence on retaining the nation’s service chiefs despite opposition to it is just one out of the many instances the executive arm of government undermine efforts by the National Assembly to contribute to the security and wellbeing of Nigerians. The House of Representatives had, in February, asked the president to declare a […]

Leaders must end senseless killings For Audu Ogbeh, the National Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum and former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, it is time for the North to face the reality and stop making politics an industry. Irked by the backwardness of the region, Ogbeh, in an exclusive interview with The Guardian […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, assured Nigerians and the international community of his administration’s commitment to use the rest of his tenure to improve access to quality education, health care and enhance productivity in a roll call of nine priority areas. The President, who received letters of credence from ambassadors/high commissioners of eight countries at the […]

Troops of Operation Sahel Sanity have shot dead two suspected bandits and arrested 150 others in Bukuyyum and Anka councils of Zamfara State. The troops also recovered ammunition, including AK-47 rifles and Dane guns during the operation. Acting director, Defence Media Operations, Brig-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, made this known during a press briefing at the Nigeria […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), yesterday, declared that chloroquine prevents the dreaded coronavirus. Its Director General, Prof. Christianah Mojisola Adeyeye, during an online interactive session with journalists said: “We realise that chloroquine can be used in the early stage of the COVID-19 infection as prophylactic treatment. Science does not […]

Former Nigerian minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that he regretted the verbal attack on a Daily Trust reporter Eyo Charles at a press briefing in Calabar. But the former minister did not apologise to the reporter directly and only “hope that this will assuage the pain and anger of anyone that was hurt […]

At least two people were killed in a clash between Nigerian state security officers and a group campaigning for the secession of a part of southeastern Nigeria formerly known as Biafra, security services said on Sunday. The incident between Department of State Services (DSS) agents and members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) […]

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai has urged the troops of Operation Lafiya Dole to deploy more of intelligence in prosecuting the ongoing counter-insurgency in the North East. Buratai stated this while addressing troops deployed at Army Super Camp 3 Buratai, in Biu Local Government Area of Borno on Monday. He said that […]

Nigerian Government has appointed the Chairman and CEO of Channels TV, John Momoh, as acting chairman of the governing council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka. In a letter signed by the permanent secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, dated August 21, 2020, Momoh was directed to convene an emergency meeting […]