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 […]

Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal’s recent private visit to former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reignited subdued conversation about the future of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Sources disclosed that state governors elected on the party’s platform, particularly those expected to serve out their constitutionally stipulated two terms of office, are working underground to effect a change […]

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has dismissed the speculation that he is planning to run for the presidency in 2023 with former Lagos State governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu. Dogara dumped the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in July and joined the ruling APC. […]

Residents are yet to come to terms with the bizarre incident of a breastfeeding mother, Mrs Chizoba Eke, who was found in a septic tank after three days in an uncompleted building at Iguwurita, Ikwere Local Government Area of Rivers State. The woman is currently struggling for survival as she has been transfused with a […]

CAN tasks INEC, others on violence-free exercise Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is strategising to hoodwink Edo people in the hinterlands and stir confusion in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Special Adviser to Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, told journalists in Benin City yesterday: […]