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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Abuja met behind closed door with security chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Newsmen report that the meeting came barely 24 hours after the president vowed to launch aggressive campaigns against insurgents operating in the country.... Read more...

Chief George Moghalu is the immediate past National Auditor of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Moghalu is, currently, the Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA. In this interview, he says his geopolitical zone is not marginalized in President Muhammadu...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the National Assembly to save the nation by immediately undertaking a forensic probe of the Buhari presidency, following an alleged report that the federal government is planning to pillage the looted funds repatriated by the United State...

Nigeria may soon be on a collision course with the United States over Boko Haram, security and terrorism matters, DAILY POST can report. The prediction over a probable US-Nigeria face-off followed the latest appointment by U.S. President Donald Trump. On Thursday February 20, Trump appointed...

Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Fashola, is obsessed with how to rehabilitate all the federal highways in Nigeria and build new ones to make all parts of Nigeria accessible and reduce the pains that Nigerians encounter as a result of deplorable roads.... Read more via Vanguard News –...

Donald Trump has announced his appointment of Richard Grenell, the current US ambassador to Germany, as the acting director of national intelligence. In a tweet on Thursday, February 20, 2020, Trump named Grenell, a staunch supporter of his policies, into the role which essentially oversees...

Sahara Reporters publisher Omoyele Sowore has alleged that the Nigerian government ‘secretly’ asked the court to order his arrest. Sowore and his co-defendant Olawale Bakare are still standing trial on a two-count charge of felony conspiracy and felony by the Nigerian government.... Read...

The European Union says it can impose restrictive visa implementation rules on Nigeria, if it fails to play its part in the return and readmission of its nationals staying illegally in the EU. The EU, which comprises Germany, Italy, Spain, France and 23 other countries... Read more via...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of N4.8 billion being augmentation for the Benin-Adumagbae-Igba-Akure road in Edo and Ondo State. Minister of State for Works and Housing, Abubakar Aliyu, made this known while briefing State House correspondents after … Read more via...

A report by Premium Times indicates that Nigeria’s National Security Adviser (NSA), Babagana Monguno, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari, of undue interference on matters bordering on national security. Legit.ng gathered that the development... Read more via...

The Presidency has raised an alarm of President Buhari and his family being under fake news attack from people it described as "enemies of national cohesion". The disclosure was made in a statement released by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity Mr Femi Adesina, in which …...

Federal Government delegation led by Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, arrived Katsina State on Monday, extending heartfelt condolences to Governor Aminu Bello Masari and Emir of Katsina, Abdulmuminu Kabir Usman, over the recent killings by bandits. The delegation was sent by President Muhammadu...

The United States Government has warned that it will recover the over $308 million looted and stashed abroad by the former head of state, the late Sani Abacha if it is re-stolen in Nigeria. The threat followed a February 4, 2020, repatriation pact the Nigerian government signed with … Read...

The Boko Haram terrorist group rejected the ransom offered by the Federal Government to secure the release of Leah Sharibu, sources at the Presidency told Daily Trust yesterday. Sharibu, a schoolgirl, is the only Dapchi schoolgirl still held hostage out of the 110 … Read more via Nairaland...

Tukur Buratai, the chief of army staff, says President Muhammadu Buhari should not be pushed into sacking his service chiefs “because he knows where the problems are”. There have been calls by federal lawmakers and other Nigerians on the president to sack the service chiefs following what...

President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Modibbo Kawu, over alleged corruption. Kawu’s suspension followed months of being investigated on allegations... Read more via Legit.ng – https://ift.tt/31XpnIq Get More Nigeria...

Chief Willy Akinlude is a former chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview, he speaks on the spate of insecurity in the country, the South West security outfit, Amotekun, and the state of the PDP in the state.... Read more via Newtelegraph...

Eleven members of the same family were locked up and burnt in their house in Kaduna yesterday by armed bandits who invaded their Bakali Village in Fatika district of Giwa Local Government Area. It was learnt that the 11 victims.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World...

Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno has urged the Nigerian Armed Forces to change strategies in the ongoing fight against Boko Haram. The governor made the call when President Muhammadu Buhari paid a sympathy visit to the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar El-Kanemi, after the killings caused by …...

Amotekun, the South-West security outfit, is the beginning of restructuring, and if restructuring is done early, properly and constitutionally, the country will avoid the crisis Somalia degenerated into. These were the sentiments … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/31OrvlH Get...