March 2021

Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, (NSA) to the President, Major General Babagana Monguno (Rtd), has said that money meant for arms to fight insurgency in the country always disappeared under the ex-service chiefs.

The ex-service chiefs are Chief of Defense Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; the Chief of Army Staff General Tukur Buratai; the Chief of Naval Staffy, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; and Air Chief Marshal Sadique Abubakar.

They have been confirmed Ambassadors by the National Assembly after they were nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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Monguno spoke in an Interview with …

Nigerians have slammed the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government as fuel price hit ₦212 litre.

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) on Thursday night announced the new increment on its website, explaining that the increase was due to the market determinants and importation costs.

This is coming days after the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) promised there would be no price hike in the price of PMS in the country.

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PPPRA fixed the lower band of the new fuel price at ₦209.61 per litre and upper band at …

Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, has berated all those urging government to arrest him because of the meetings he holds with bandits describing such people as clowns.

Gumi revealed that government officials also attend the meetings with the bandits.

Speaking to correspondents on Thursday, the cleric revealed that he’s not the first to hold dialogue with bandits.
His words, ‘Even the Kaduna State governor dialogued with them, Zamfara governor dialogued with them.

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‘I’m not the first person that started dialoguing with them ( bandits). I …

Following the death of the prime minister, Hamed Bakayoko who is a popular leader in Ivory Coast the country has been thrown into heavy mourning.

The late leader is being remembered for his role in reaching across the political spectrum of the heavily divided West African country to seek reconciliation.

Africa Daily News Reports that Bakayoko, popularly known as ‘Hambak‘, died in Germany from cancer aged 56, four days after legislative elections that went ahead peacefully and handed victory to the ruling RHDP party.

The calm ballot was an exception in Ivory Coast where recent votes have been …

An Iowa prosecutor on Thursday defended his failed pursuit of charges against a journalist who was arrested while covering a Black Lives Matter protest, explaining that he believed the evidence was strong and that dismissing the case would have amounted to special treatment.

Polk County Attorney John Sarcone, a Democrat who has held office since 1991, dismissed the outrage he has faced for his decision to prosecute Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri as unwarranted.

A Des Moines police officer pepper-sprayed and arrested Sahouri last May while she was on assignment reporting at a chaotic Black Lives Matter protests outside …

Renewed moves to dislodge the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the next general elections has forced the opposition People’s Democratic party (PDP) to hold An emergency meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Party.

Recall that after 16 years in power, PDP lost to APC in 2015 when President Muhammadu Buhari defeated its candidate, then-incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, and ever since then, the party is yet to get used to its position as an opposition party.

In 2019, efforts by the party to return to power yielded no result as Buhari defeated its candidate, former Vice President Atiku …

The National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, on Thursday, explained how the regimes of General Aguiyi Ironsi, General Yakubu Gowon, and General Olusegun Obasanjo relegated the traditional institution to the background and made them as powerless as they appear today.

The Chairman of the council and the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, stated that General Ironsi’s 1966 Unitary Government Decree, General Gowon’s and General Obasanjo’s 1967 and 1976 Local Government Reforms Decrees respectively, technically stripped traditional rulers of their powers and gave same to the Local Government Councils.

The decrees, he explained, resulted …