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Telecommunication companies are proposing a 40 per cent increase in the cost of calls, SMS, and data to the Nigerian Communications Commission as a result of the rising cost of running a business in the nation. Based on their proposal, the price floor of calls will increase from 6.4 naira to 8.95 naira while the price cap of SMS will increase from 4 naira to 5.61 naira. This was r...

The United Nations Secretary-General, ANTONIO GUTERRES, has arrived at the UN House in Abuja today and is expected to perform the laying of wreath ceremony in honor of the victims of the August 26, 2011, suicide bomb attack. ANTONIO GUTERRES, arrived Nigeria Yesterday on a two day official visit. GUTERRES while briefing newsmen in Borno state, expressed happiness that Nigeria is tackli...

THE Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ondo State, ROTIMI AKEREDOLU, has insisted that the southern part of the country must produce the next president of the country. ROTIMI AKEREDOLU, in a statement has warned the national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress against giving the presidential ticket to a northern aspirant so as not to put the party in a crisis. ...

Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, KAYODE FAYEMI has joined the list of Presidential aspirants ahead of the 2023 elections. The Chief Press Secretary to the Ekiti state governor, YINKA OYEBODE in a statement, said Governor FAYEMI will formally declare his intention at an event in Abuja scheduled for tomorrow. The statement said that...

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has downplayed claims that he has a favoured candidate for the 2023 elections, saying he will hand over to whoever Nigerians elect. The President made the remark  while answering questions from journalists after observing the Eid-el-Fitr prayers at the Mambilla Barracks parade ground in Abuja. According to BUHARI, he has no special candidate to repl...

The press is a critical agent for the protection of democracy and development and must be supported to enable them to effectively discharge their constitutional duties as the watchdog of the society, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said. It observed that Nigerian journalists fought very hard to achieve the nation’s democratic status and deserve a better deal, unlike the current situation where many of them stru...

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has asked authorities of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to immediately set up a situation room for the coordination of the rescue efforts for Kaduna -Abuja attack hostages. President BUHARI gave the directive while hosting some residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), who paid the traditional Sallah homage to him at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. ...

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has tweeted for the first time since the country reversed the ban it imposed on Twitter in June last year.  The Nigerian government had imposed the ban on the social media platform after it deleted the tweets of president BUHARI which referenced the Nigerian Civil War,  although the Federal Government said the ban was not linked to the deleted tweets....

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI, has commiserated with families of those who died, sustained injuries, and were affected in the building collapse at Ebute Metta area of Lagos State, with search and rescue still ongoing at the site. He also lamented the “embarrassing” frequency of building collapse in the country. This comes after a three-storey building collapsed on Sunday ...

As the call for national unity heightens, the leader of the Yoruba Socio-Cultural group Afenifere, Pa AYO ADEBANJO has reemphasized the call for Igbo presidency for equity and justice. Pa Ayo Adebanjo who made the statement in an interview on a monitored television program said zoning was practiced at the inception of the country to make all regions inclusive in governance. The Af...