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Pres. #Buhari returns to Nigeria from London where he participated in the UK-Africa Investment Summit..... Read more via Instablog9ja – https://ift.tt/2viDUSO Get More Nigeria Political News

Kano State Governor Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje yesterday said his predecessor, Dr Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, was planning to return to the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest for presidency come 2023. Receiving the state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Rabi’u Sulaiman...

Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma has said that his administration will continue from where his predecessor stopped. Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was last week declared the governor of Imo State by the Supreme … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/36ojxAi...

The Federal Government and governors of the South-West geo-political zone yesterday reached a truce on the operational modalities of Operation Amotekun, the regional security outfit launched recently in Ibadan, Oyo State. The agreement came at the end of … Read more via Newtelegraph –...

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after participating at the United Kingdom Africa Investment Summit in London. Personal Assistant to the president on New Media, Bashir Ahmad announced Buhari’s return on Twitter on Thursday evening.... Read more via “nigeria” – Google News –...

Rising from their National Executive meeting at Bodija, Ibadan Thursday, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has urged National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, not to be more federal than regional in his disposition to the.... Read more via Newtelegraph –...

The Federal Government and South-West governors have reached an agreement on Operation Amotekun. Laolu Akande, the Special Adviser to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, made this known via his verified Twitter handle this evening.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2Ggub1k Get...

Osinbajo and governors from the Southwest are discussing Amotekun at the villa. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently locked in a meeting with governors of Nigeria’s Southwest region over Amotekun, the region’s newly launched security outfit, a highly placed source in the..... Read more...

The Western Nigerian Security outfit codenamed Operation Amotekun remains an illegal entity, the FG has maintained. According to The Nation, the Federal Government has insisted the Western Nigerian Security outfit codenamed Operation Amotekun remains.... Read more via Tori News –...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that most of the officials in the Buhari-led government will not only go to jail but also go to hell if the entire government is investigated for corruption. According to him, this government is by far enmeshed in corruption... Read more via...

Akwa Ibom State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has denied signing any agreement with the state government on the new national minimum wage in the state. Secretary of NLC, Iboro Ibara, stated this while reacting to government’s announcement of … Read more via The Guardian...

Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, has said that his administration is ready to reconcile with all the stakeholders to move the state forward. Lalong stated this following Monday’s affirmation of his election victory by the Supreme Court in Abuja...... Read more via The Guardian...

Femi Fani-Kayode says the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah, Saleh Alhassan needs to be taken to Prophet T.B. Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN to get deliverance from the spirit of insanity, arrogance and delusion. He said he listened Saleh on Channels Television on … Read...

President Muhammadu Buhari deserves commendation for his new year pledge to reform Nigeria’s electoral process, but he should have gone further to admit that the exercise through which he was re-elected to a second term in office was grossly flawed. He should have … Read more via P.M. News...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke, in this interview, speaks on the controversy over the South-West Regional Security Outfit, suggesting what governors of the South-South geopolitical zone and leaders should do to effectively secure their region.... Read...

The national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday explained why he had remained silent over the raging controversies surrounding the launch of Operation Amotekun by South-West governors.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and...

ABUJA—National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, said, the emergence of the South-West security outfit, Amotekun and other security apparatus are indications of a vote of no confidence on the ability of President Muhammadu Buhari … Read more via...

Nnewi— Foremost nationalist and the only Minister of the First Republic alive, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, yesterday, raised the alarm that Nigeria is being driven to a dangerous precipice, yet, the youths who have been at the receiving end of the misrule in Nigeria … Read more via Vanguard...

THERE is palpable tension in Akwa Ibom State, particularly in the camps of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the Saturday January, 25, 2020 court ordered re-run election in Essien Udim local council. This followed widespread allegations …...

Dr. Chris Ngige, Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, has highlighted what the Igbo must do as they aspire to produce President Muhammadu Buhari’s successor come 2023. Firstly, Ngige said leaders of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) must collapse their party into the All...