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A former governor of Adamawa State and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Murtala Nyako, has criticised the decision of the party to extend the tenure of its executive committees at the national and other levels as potentially suicidal for the party. Speaking in Yola on...

The police in Plateau State said on Sunday that they are not in possession of an identity card belonging to a member of cattle breeders association in the state. The Plateau police spokesperson said Zakariya Idris, a senior member of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) who owns...

The decision of the leadership of the Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria to dismiss one of its pastors has pitched some of its members against the General Overseer, Felix Meduoye. Isaac Adeyemi, a former Senior Pastor in charge of Foursquare District Headquarters, Ikorodu (Living Spring...

Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa state went home disappointed when 4000 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) decampees failed to appear at a rally as earlier announced. Mr. Badaru was in Birnin Kudu Local Government Area of the state on Sunday, the venue of the occasion to recieve the...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday said Nigeria has become too solid as a country for any force, calamity or misgovernance to destroy it. Mr. Obasanjo, who spoke exclusively to PREMIUM TIMES from Azerbaijan where he is chairing a meeting of the InterAction Council of Former Heads of...

Some survivors of last week’s attack in Kogi State have been narrating their ordeal. PREMIUM TIMES reported the attack in Dekina Local Government Area which is believed to have caused about 25 deaths. On Saturday, the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, visited the affected communities. The...

The N-power scheme of the federal government became a political rallying point on Saturday as beneficiaries, split into pro- governor Ayo Fayose and pro-President Muhammadu Buhari camps, clashed. About 3,000 beneficiaries used the accreditation exercise which held at the AB Event Center, Ado...

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, on his re-election as the president of the Peoples Republic of China. In a letter signed by him, the Nigerian leader praised his Chinese counterpart for his wisdom and vision. “On behalf of the Government and...

The senator representing Bauchi Central at the Senate, Ali Wakil, is dead. He died after a brief illness on Saturday, a source close to the family told PREMIUM TIMES. Efforts to speak to the Senate spokesperson, Sabi Abdullahi, did not yield any result as he neither picked his calls nor...

GoFundMe has lifted all restrictions on Omoyele Sowore’s ‘Take Back Nigeria Movement’ fundraising appeal, roughly 24 hours after suspending the campaign for undisclosed reasons. The account was restored after its creator, Mr. Sowore, escalated a complaint to executives of the fundraising...

Muslims have criticised the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for allowing part of its examination clash with the Friday Jummat prayer. In the timetable for 2018 May/June Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE), candidates will write Chemistry paper from 2pm to 5pm on...

A suspected mentally ill man, Lekan Adebisi, who hacked two pupils to death, has declared that he is ready to face the consequences of his action. The horror attack occurred on Monday at St. John’s Anglican Primary School, Agodo, Ogun Waterside Local Government Area, Ogun … Read more via...

A former aide of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s claims in Damaturu, Yobe, that he handled the recent abduction of 110 Dapchi schoolgirls ‘much better’ than Mr. Jonathan treated a similar incident in Chibok in 2014 is false. Reno Omokri in a statement on...

A luxury mansion co-owned by a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and his fourth wife, Jennifer Douglas, in the posh neighbourhood of Potomac, Maryland, United States, has been auctioned. The property gained international notoriety in 2005 after it was searched by the Federal Bureau of...

President Rodrigo Duterte of Philiphines on Wednesday announced the withdrawal of the country’s ratification of the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). “I therefore declare and forthwith give notice, as president of the Republic of the Philippines, that the...

Google, reputed to be the world’s largest digital advertising platform, on Tuesday announced plans to review its advertising policy as it affects certain financial services, including Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, from June this year. The New York Times reports that the new restriction...

The European Union has charged the Federal Government of Nigeria to bring perpetrators of the recurrent clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the country to justice. According to the EU in a statement on Tuesday by its Heads of Mission in Nigeria, this is the necessary first step towards...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Charles Quaker Dokubo, a professor, as the new Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme for former Niger Delta militants. A statement by Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, said Mr. Dokubo...

The House of Representatives has lifted a suspension it placed on Abdulmumin Jibrin, a member of the House from Kano. This followed a letter signed by Mr. Jibrin, allegedly apologising to the House. Although the letter wasn’t fully read before the parliament, the speaker paraphrased it by...

President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the proposed amendments to Nigeria’s Electoral Act in the run-up to the 2019 general elections. In a letter addressed to the Speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, the president said the amendments infringe on the rights of the Independent...