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The embattled deputy governor of Ondo State, Hon Agboola Ajayi, at the weekend gave Governor Rotimi Akeredolu 21 days to transmit power to him as acting governor. Akeredolu and his estranged deputy had been at loggerheads over the propriety or otherwise of transmitting power to Ajayi while incapacitated. Recall that the …

ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE COVID- 19 PANDEMIC SUNDAY 29TH MARCH, 2020 1. Fellow Nigerians, 2. From the first signs that Coronavirus, or COVID-19 was turning into an epidemic and was officially declared a world-wide emergency, the Federal Government started planning …

The police have paraded four suspects for their alleged involvement in Saturday’s bank robbery in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Three of the suspects are said to be part of the group of armed men that attacked the bank while the fourth man is an official of the bank. The four …

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday, played host to the Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, at the State House, Abuja. See the photos. Source: Buhari Sallau (Instagram)

The Senate has postponed passage of the 2019 Appropriation Bill till Tuesday. Although the report by the Senate Committee on Appropriations on the national budget was billed for consideration at the plenary on Wednesday, the lawmakers resolved to postpone the third reading of the bills as the details of the …

Individuals and corporate bodies found guilty of tax evasion are to henceforth lose their properties to the Federal Government, the Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), Babatunde Fowler, has said. This was as he equally disclosed that the tax agency surpassed its target for 2018 by generating a total of …

The Nigerian Air Force has replaced the surveillance helicopter it used in Kwara State during the February 23 elections. NAF said a military jet had been deployed in the state for Saturday’s elections, stating that the jet had better surveillance capability than the helicopter. At a press conference on Thursday, …

The nuance of Professor Yemi Osinbajo’s electrifying whistle-stop tours of the South-West geo-political zone and pockets of towns in some of the other zones, since the commencement of electioneering for the February 16 presidential poll, has raised the stakes in the battle for massive votes, especially in Yoruba land. The …

The delegation led by the Chairman House committee on Petroleum Resources Downstream, Hon Joseph Akinlaja recently performed its statutory legislative roles after engaging stakeholders in the country’s refineries during a fact-finding exercise in both Warri and Port Harcourt.   While on the facilities tour, as part of the lawmakers’ oversight …

President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to submit his academic credentials to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of his bid to seek re-election in 2019. Mr Buhari, a retired major general, instead told the electoral body that his credentials are still with the military, Punch newspaper reports. INEC on …