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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the commission had no connection with the voters register used in the Kano local government elections in which underage voters allegedly participated. The chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yakubu on Friday told journalists in Abuja...

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja No less than 31,672 Nigerians are on the watch list of the Nigeria Immigration Service. It was gathered that the citizens who are on the watch list were prevented from travelling out of the country in 2017. The NIS Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, declined …...

National Assembly To guarantee food security among Nigeria’s teeming population, Emir of Argungu, Samai’la Muhammad Mera has called on the National Assembly to pass the Right to Food Bill without further hesitation. He made the call while responding to a detailed … Read more via The...

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari is back to the country after a successful outing with United States President, Donald Trump at Washington.... Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2FH03JU Get More Nigeria Political News

Some hoodlums on Thursday invaded the venue of an APC stakeholders meeting in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory and attacked the area council’s chairman, Mr Abdulahi Galadima. The post Hoodlums attack Kuje LG boss appeared first on PM NEWS Nigeria........ Read more via PM...

The Senate has queried the alleged disappearance of N44,986,516,357.43 from the Military Pensions Board. The funds, according to the upper legislative chamber, were allocated to the Board from the Service Wide Votes between 2013 … Read more via BusinessDay : News you can trust –...

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said that one percent of the country’s budget will be directed towards the health sector this year. Dr. Saraki stated this on Thursday during the 58th Annual General Conference and delegates meeting of the Nigerian Medical Association which held in...

The Nigeria Medical Association says all but two of the 68 registered political parties in Nigeria shunned its town hall meeting which held in Abuja on Wednesday. The NMA President, Prof. Mike Ogirima, said this while delivering his speech at the town hall meeting which … Read more via...

Laide Raheem, Abeokuta Former president Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, hit President Muhammadu Buhari again saying he is a failure and unworthy of a second term in 2019. Obasanjo said contrary to news report, which quoted him as giving the incumbent government a pass mark, “the mediocre...

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, yesterday vowed to wield the big stick against any court official involved in the leakage of rulings and judgments to litigants. The CJN, who spoke at the opening ceremony of a National Workshop for Information and … Read more via...

Worried by low awareness on prostate cancer in Nigeria, a leading cause of death among men, the Junior Chamber International (JCI) has embarked on free screening and sensitisation exercise in Kabusa community, a village in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to stem the disease. The …...

Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial District, was yesterday brought before an Abuja magistrate’s court on a stretcher by police officers, where he was arraigned under tight security. Melaye, who was granted bail in the sum of N90 million and two sureties, was … Read more...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has accused political parties and politicians of flouting the 2019 election timetable. The Commission released the timetable in January. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who disclosed this in Abuja, yesterday, at the maiden town hall...

Big Brother Naija 2018 first runner-up, Cee C was today hosted by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Cee C and her dad were at the FIRS headquarters in Abuja where FIRS chairman, Babatunde Fowler received them. Gushing about the visit, Cee C wrote ion Instagram: … via Nigeria News...

The Islamic Movement of Nigeria demonstrated again on Wednesday in Abuja. A rally by the group Monday descended into violence, leading to dozens of arrests and injuries. Read more via Nigeria News – https://ift.tt/2r4Z94I Get More Nigeria Metro News

Mr Bisi Akande with Mr Bola Tinubu during a visit to the Presidential Villa in Abuja on February 13, 2018. The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-west says it will cooperate with the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) and work as observers during … Read...

President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja on Saturday on an official working visit to the United States of America, on the invitation of President Donald Trump, his office said. President Buhari will have bilateral meeting with President Trump and a working lunch on Monday 30th April 2018...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja said the unity of Nigeria remained his paramount objective and that of his government. The President, according to a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina, … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2HyyMPw Get More Nigeria...

The President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has revealed that there was ample time for President Muhammadu Buhari to seek the approval of the National Assembly for the … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2r4hqPL Get More Nigeria Political News

The newly-floated federal government bond with five-year tenor was oversubscribed by 60 per cent, the Debt Management Office (DMO) revealed thursday. The DMO conducted the fourth in the series of federal government Bond Auctions for 2018 on April 25, to raise funds for the implementation …...