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VIDEO: Workers protest as NHIS Executive Secretary Yusuf resumes Some staff described Mr. Yusuf’s leadership as causing disaffection and low morale in the system. February 8, 2018Mohammed Lere … Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – http://ift.tt/2Ed0M5D -- Get More Nigeria Political News

We are constrained to state that reports credited to the House of Representatives Committee Chairman on Public Safety and National Intelligence, Honorable Aminu Sani Jaji, to the effect that the embattled Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA has convinced his committee about...

Armed persons on Thursday night attacked villages around Anyiin, a major town in Logo Local Government Area, LGA, that serves as a base for special forces and has one of the biggest IDP camps. Residents in Anyiin reported heavy gunshots from attacks in nearby villages … Read more via Premium...

Kaduna chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has passed a no confidence vote on President Muhammadu Buhari, saying his administration had failed to decisively tackle the herdsmen’s pogrom currently threatening the corporate existence of the nation. The body also opposed the...

Leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers state look set to be heading for a legal showdown with ex-Niger-Delta agitator, Ateke Tom. This is because the ex-agitator and King of Okochiri clan in Okirika Local Government Area of Rivers State, King Ateke Tom has filed … Read more...

The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Zone 5, Rasheed Akintunde, says only 20 per cent of policemen are engaged in protecting lives and ensuring peace in the country. Read more via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2FVPXWg -- Get More Nigeria Political News

Barely few minutes after the Catholic Bishops took their leave from the Presidential Villa, Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, released a statement explaining how the President responded to the clerics while the meeting lasted. Read more via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2GWKfVn -- Get More...

Controversial Nigerian actress, Tonto Dikeh who revealed that she worships God selflessly, has prayed to God to give her a baby girl. The mother of one while playing with her 2-year-old son, King Andre revealed that she’s praying to have a baby girl and it has since made online users wondering …...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State Mixed reactions have trailed Gov. Rochas Okorocha’s creation of new institutions of higher learning in Imo as some say it will amount to a waste of resources and others welcomed the idea. Some of the respondents said in interviews with the … Read more...

Nigerian army troop arrested two herdsmen in Benue state – The herdsmen were arrested while allegedly planning to destroy Governor Ortom’s fish farm The Nigerian army troops, 707 Special Forces Brigade, on Tuesday, February 6, arrested two armed … --Read more via Nigeria News today &...