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President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has called on Nigerians to resist agents bent on causing a breakdown of law and order in the country. In a statement yesterday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, FEMI ADESINA, he gave an assurance that no individual or group would be allowed to destabilize Nigeria. President BUHARI, who thanked the governors and ministers for honoring&nbs...

Car dealers have threatened to close their stores this week as controversy continues to surround the introduction of 15 per cent National Automobile Commission levy imposed on imported used vehicles by the Nigeria Customs Service. The NCS had recently introduced a 15 per cent National Automobile Commission levy on used imported vehicles, a decision which didn’t go down well with clearing agents in the country’s maritime ...

The Lagos State Government has warned that sharing or receiving images depicting child pornography is an offense under its laws that can attract a sentence of up to 14 years. The warning comes amid reports that some students of Chrisland schools were involved in a case of alleged sexual violence in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The government had ordered the shutdown of all Chrisla...

Rivers State Governor, NYESOM WIKE, says the presidential pardon for persons prosecuted on corruption charges by the Federal Government only suggests that there is no need to have anti-corruption agencies in the country. He believes the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) have been made to suffer an embarrassment as the pardon has made them irrelevant....

Troops of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) have killed 10 Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) commanders, as well as over 100 terrorists during land and air clearance operations along the fringes of the Lake Chad Basin. The operation codenamed Operation Lake Sanity is a joint and combined operation involving the MNJTF troops from Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon and troops from ...

As Christians in Nigeria join other faithful worldwide to celebrate Easter Sunday, Vice President YEMI OSINBAJO (SAN), has assured Nigerians of the restoration of peace and a more prosperous future for all regardless of current challenges. Prof. OSINBAJO stated this in a chat with journalists shortly after the Easter Sunday service at the State House Chapel, Aso Villa, Abuja. The ...

The house of representatives has demanded for the sack of the National Security Adviser, Major General BABAGANA MONGUNO, retired, and the Minister of Defense, Major General BASHIR MAGASHI, retired. The latest call for the sack of the nation’s security chiefs comes as a result of the rising insecurity in the country , especially the recent killings in Benue, Taraba and Plateau states.The lawmakers who stated this du...

Former Director with the Department of State Security Service, DSS, MIKE EJIOFOR has described the latest bandit attack in Zamfara state where over 5 students were abducted, as very unfortunate.  The former Director in an interview with super FM news, blamed  the state government for not giving priority to security issues in the state and called on members of the society to begin tp defend themselves from the action of ter...

Lawmakers in the Senate have again passed the Nigerian Peace Corps (Establishment) Bill, four years after President MUHAMMADU BUHARI rejected the proposed legislation. They also approved another bill seeking legal backing for the establishment of a council for hunters across the country. This followed the consideration of two reports on the bills by the Committee on Interior durin...

The Supreme Court has affirmed a six-year jail sentence for a former Director of the Police Pension Fund, JOHN YAKUBU. The court upheld the jail term originally handed out by the Court of Appeal back in 2018 over a pension scam alleged to have been conducted by the defendant. The court also sustained the decision of the Court of Appeal ordering JOHN YAKUBU to refund the sum of 22....