President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over this week’s virtual Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the State House in Abuja. The meeting, which kicked off at 10am in the Council Chambers of the State House, had the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN); the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss […]

Power Generation Companies in Nigeria (GenCos), have described the call by the Senate to cancel the privatisation exercise of the power sector as premature. Instead of compounding the challenges in the sector, the GenCos, in a document, which detailed their performance and challenges insisted government would do better by addressing the structural issues bedevilling the […]

Veteran Nollywood, Olu Jacob is hale and hearty, a colleague, Kemi Lala Akindoju confirmed. The award-winning actress stated this on Twitter while debunking the rumored death of the former. “Uncle Olu Jacobs is alive and well. Very much so. I just got off the phone with him. Please stop spreading fake news”. she wrote.

There is no going back on the Executive Order 0010 by President Muhammadu Buhari on autonomy to State Legislature and Judiciary, the Federal Government declared on Tuesday. Rather, Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mallam Abubakar Malami (SAN), said the current administration will work with Governors on modalities for effective implementation of the […]

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it has embarked on measures that will ensure safe and efficient operations post COVID-19 restrictions on socio-economic activities in the country. Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, the Director, Press and Public Relations of NYSC, said this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. The statement quoted Brg.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, the […]

Senator Bola Tinubu, National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), on Tuesday, debunked speculations of any cold war between him and the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, stating that he remains his leader. Tinubu, in a statement by his media adviser, Tunde Rahman, stated that ‘there is no war, cold or hot, between us.” […]

The Senate said, yesterday, that inefficiency on the part of the executive arm of government threatened the quick passage of the N10.509 trillion revised budget draft sent to the National Assembly two weeks ago. It expressed disappointment on the failure of the Presidency to include a N186 billion health allocation in the entire budget. It […]

The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, yesterday said security operatives had neutralised 1,429 terrorists and arrested 116 spies in the ongoing counter-terrorism fight in the North East. Addressing State House correspondents after he briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on developments at the war front in Abuja, the military chief acknowledged that his men […]

Hundreds of youths have taken to the streets where they burnt tires and chanted vulgar songs following the abduction of a man, Mansir Yusuf and his daughter at Yantumaki community, in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State. The abduction was said to have taken place in the early hours of Tuesday morning, at about […]

The Defence Headquarters says the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji has destroyed another bandits’ camp and killed several of the criminals at Kwayanbana Forest in Zamfara. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the airstrike was carried out on June 7, in continuation of air […]

The Igbo living in Lagos, under the auspices of Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu Southeastern Friends (BOS-Southeastern Friends), have congratulated Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on his one year in office. The group’s Coordinator, Eze Chika Diabia Jumbo, in a statement by the Secretary, Mazi Onyebuchi Eze, said its formation was to reciprocate the governor’s love for the non-indigenes, […]

WEEKEND’s reopening of churches and mosques in some states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has become a source of worry to the Federal Government due to the breach of guidelines. The Federal Government last week released protocols that should form the basis of discussions between the state governments and religious leaders before the reopening […]