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The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday issued new guidelines for the reopening of religious centres across the country. This comes after the Federal Government lifted the ban on religious and other public gatherings to check the spread of COVID-19. In addition to its earlier restrictions of children and people aged 60 and abovefrom religious gatherings, it has ...

A breakaway faction of Boko Haram has released a video showing the execution of a soldier and a police officer. In the video, members of ISWAP, the breakaway Boko Haram faction, executed the two security personnel. In the 49 seconds video, the two security personnel who were abducted last week while travelling between Maiduguri and Monguno introduced themselves after which they were summarily shot dead. According to the ...

Aisha Buhari, Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf and President Buhari The power tussle which has resulted to physical assault at the Nigerian presidential villa between the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari and Sabiu ‘Tunde’ Yusuf, the President’s influential Private Secretary and favourite nephew, is said to be getting messier as the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ignored the demand by the first lady to release her aides who ...

Reno Omokri, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as unfit to occupy the office of a president. Omokri lamented that President Buhari cannot govern his own home, least of all a nation. The former presidential aide was reacting to reports of gunshots heard in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Shots were allegedly fired by an ...

The Screening Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has disqualified Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, from contesting in the party’s governorship primary election scheduled for June 22, 2020. The committee chairman, Prof. Jonathan Ayuba, made the disclosure in a press conference on Friday afternoon. He said the governor did not present his Higher School Leaving Certificate. Ayuba noted that ...

Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said that he doubt that he will get justice from the committee set up by the All Progressive Congress to screen the governorship aspirants of the party. He said he will wait for the outcome of the screening process after the committee grilled him for over two hours on Wednesday. The Edo state governor ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has commended Heritage Bank for being part of a valuable private sector collaboration with Dukia Gold & Precious Metals Refining Co. Ltd, saying such partnership stands to create new opportunities for Nigeria to grow its potential reserves of 200 million ounces of gold. The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this during a Zoom- meet & ...

– As investigative panel reveals finding Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday passed a vote of confidence on the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa. This confidence vote followed the presentation of the report of a nine-man fact-finding committee of the House on allegations of corruption levelled against the speaker by Sahara Reporters headed ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally nominated Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem as Appeal Court President. It is reported that the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu announced President Buhari’s nomination for the position of the President of the Court of Appeal in a statement on Monday. The statement reads: “President Muhammadu Buhari, in-line with his constitutional responsibility ...

Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo and the Honourable Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Arc. Olamilekan Adegbite, will on Tuesday 9th of June 2020, officially launch the commencement of the Dukia Gold & Precious Metals Raw Materials Buying Program of Nigeria’s first gold and precious metals refining company. The official launch will also witness the birth of Dukia–Heritage Bank Gold & Precious ...