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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the procurement of utility vehicles, security gadgets, and accessories to support security agencies operating within the FCT at the sum of 1.835 billion naira. Giving details of the purchase after the FEC meeting, the FCT minister, MOHAMMED BELLO, disclosed that 60 utility vehicles with communication gadgets will be bought at that amount and delivered within two months....

The Board of Trustees of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have set up a committee of the whole to reconcile the presidential candidate of the party, ATIKU ABUBAKAR and Rivers state Governor NYESOM WIKE. The committee will involve all the members of the board, with the mandate to resolve the differences between both men who have been on loggerheads since the party’s presidential primaries. ...

Nobel laureate, Professor WOLE SOYINKA has supported the planned impeachment of President MUHAMMADU BUHARI, by opposition lawmakers in the National Assembly, if the nation’s security crisis is not solved in a 6-week ultimatum.Professor SOYINKA backed the move, while speaking during an interactive session organized to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Abeokuta Club.Professor SOYINKA, said the President should be impeached because he had breached th...

The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended the train services on the Lagos, Abuja, and Ajaokuta routes over safety concerns.The Managing Director of the NRC FIDET OKHIRIA confirmed this to newsmen adding that this followed a report of an attempted kidnapping of passengers that left the Ajaokuta Station by road on their way to Abuja.According to him, the passengers and their vehicles...

5 passengers who were abducted on March 28 aboard an Abuja-Kaduna train have been freed by their abductors.A member of the negotiating team, TUKUR MAMU confirmed the release of the victims.With the release of the 5 additional hostages, a total of 27 victims have now regained their freedom, while 35 people are still in captivity....

President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has blamed the security situation in the country on the political instability in Libya, which he says has continued to fuel terrorism in the Sahel, West and Central African regions.President BUHARI stated this while receiving the letters of credence from the new Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, JAMES KINGSTON and the new Ambassador of Mexico to Nigeria, ALFRED MIRANDA.President MUHAMMADU BUHARI however said that the federal ...

It appears that the spate of industrial actions and strikes rocking the education sector might soon spill over to the Health sector. This is as the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have threatened to embark on strike if the federal and state governments fail to meet their demands within a 2-week ultimatum. The resident doctors reached the resolution after its Nation...

After several months of continuous registration, the registration exercise for the Permanent Voters’ Card has finally come to a close yesterday. Across the nation, and here in Ogun state, crowds of people trooped to various registration centers to ensure they have their franchise ahead of the 2023 elections. Despite the deadline being extended from June 30 till July 31, many...

About 63 bills have been tabled before the Senate and the House of Representatives for the creation of new universities, polytechnics, colleges of education since the beginning of shutdown of activities in public tertiary institutions in the country in 2022. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union have warned the government against the establishmen...

The Olu of Warri, OGIAME ATUWATSE the third has lamented over the level of youth unemployment in the country, saying it is worse than a time bomb waiting to explode. The monarch, said this when he featured on a monitored television program, stressing that the current security challenges bedeviling Africa’s most populous nation is at all time high. He called on leaders to gui...