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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, religious and community leaders have hailed the ministerial nomination of the former governor of the State, Dr Kayode Fayemi by President Muhammadu Buhari, describing it as a reward for hard work and vision he exuded while...

Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect struck in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, late Thursday, killing an unspecified number of people.

The former president, who spoke on Nigeria’s 55th Independence Anniversary at his country home in Abeokuta on Thursday, revealed that the diplomatic impressions received from Bill Clinton, ex-President of United States, Gordon Brown, ex-Prime Minister of United Kingdom and...

Igbokwe said: “Because of the inordinate ambition of one man and lust to be the Senate President by all means, Saraki ignored the President, the Vice-President, APC governors, Senators, House of Representatives members etc.to sacrifice the unity of his party”.

Speaking on the vote of confidence, Chairman, Senate ad-hoc committee on Media and publicity, Senator Dino Melaye said that 83 Senators who endorsed the leadership of the Senate was the expression of confidence the lawmakers reposed on their leadership. Buhari needto be reminded...

The Kuje and Nyanya suburbs of Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, were yesterday night rocked by a series of bomb blasts, a year after they’d had relative peace from bomb explosions.

John Chukwu, has condemned the twin suicide bomb blasts in Kuje, a suburb of Abuja late Friday.

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is to take personal charge of the country’s crucial oil portfolio, his spokesman, Femi Adesina said on Tuesday, as a deadline loomed for him to finally nominate his cabinet.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives; Mahmud Mohammed, chief justice of Nigeria; Yakubu Gowon, former head of state; Alex Ekwueme, Ernest Shonekan, former interim president; all the service chiefs, were among the dignitaries that...

He did not make any speech. “He’s going to be dividing his time between looking at the petroleum sector and governing the nation, which I think is not the appropriate thing to do when the economy is in deep crisis”.

Mr Buhari, who took office at the end of May, has submitted his list of ministerial nominations, the Senate president has tweeted.

This was disclosed Wednesday in a statement signed by the Deputy Director of Army Public Relations (DAPR), 7Div Maiduguri, Col. Tukur Gusau.

The list may be presented to the Senate before October 1.

The federal government has insisted that it is winning the war against Boko Haram despite all challenges and campaign of calumny by the fifth columnists. Since 2002, Boko Haram has caused over 10,000 deaths and the displacement of over 1.5 million people from the Northern states.

Ita Enang, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on national assembly affairs (senate‎), who is believed to bear the list, is now at the national assembly, further fuelling reports that the list of ministerial nominees will reach the upper chamber on Tuesday.