Stanching the Bloodshed: Funmi Olonisakin and the Pursuit of Peace, By Toyin Falọla

Since the beginning of this year, violence of all forms have pervaded Nigeria and resulted in a massive number of casualties, the scale of which is almost unthinkable. Violence is not an alien in Nigeria; it has been a part of our national life as long as the country has existed. However, the cruel manner […]

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R-APC asks court to void election of Oshiomhole-led APC executive committee

According to Premium Times, a day after making the same demand on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) has asked a federal high court in Abuja to declare the purported election of All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, and the entire national executive committee invalid, null and void. […]

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PDP condemns Buhari for claiming credit on Abuja Light Rail, says it is PDP project

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flays President Muhammadu Buhari and what it called his dysfunctional All Progressives Congress (APC) for attempting to claim credit for the Abuja Light Rail Project, even when Nigerians are aware that the project was conceptualized, initiated and policy-propelled by the PDP. The party said: “President Buhari’s showboating and rushing to commission […]

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Nigerians speak, as 50 people were gruesomely murdered in Sokoto

About 50 people were gruesomely murdered in villages around Gandi in Rabah Local Government of Sokoto State on Tuesday according to latest reports. President Muhammadu Buhari, while reacting to attack, condemned the act saying he will spare no effort in stopping killings in the country. Buhari said his administration will not allow any group of barbarians and […]

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Ex-NYSC Director explains why Kemi Adeosun’s ‘exemption certificate’ is fake

A retired Director of Mobilisation at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mr. Anthony Ani, has cited reasons why the purported ‘Certificate of Exemption’ owned by Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, is not genuine and “wouldn’t have emanated from the NYSC.” Mr Ani, who appeared on Channels Television’s breakfast show, Sunrise Daily, said the certificate has footprints […]

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PDP accuses federal govt of moving N18bn cash through Akure Airport to influence Ekiti governorship election

Kolapo Olusola Campaign Organisation (KOCO) of the Ekiti State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Thursday, alleged that the Federal Government of Nigeria has moved N18 billion cash with bullion vans into Ekiti State through Akure airport with the purpose of allegedly inducing the electorate with the money during Saturday’s poll. Lere Olayinka, Director, Media and Publicity […]

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NWC of PDP, party leaders protest attack on Fayose to Nigerian National Assembly

The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, has led the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to the National Assembly to protest against the alleged assault by men of the Nigeria Police on the Gover‎nor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose. Also at the protest, which held at the main gate to […]

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Nigerian Minister of Sports summons DG of NYSC for briefing over Adeosun’s alleged certificate scandal

Nigerian Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Mr. Solomon Dalung said he has summoned the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Suleiman Kazaure, over the controversy trailing the authenticity of the Exemption Certificate tendered by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun. Dalung explained that the summon was for Kazaure to come brief […]

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Macron brings Buhari out of purdah, By Abimbola Adelakun

President Emmanuel Macron of France was in Nigeria recently. One of the things his trip achieved was bringing out his host, President Muhammadu Buhari, to speak to Nigerians at a press conference. It is ironical that Nigerians needed the French leader to prise their President out of his hiding place, but the reality is also […]

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Nigerian-Style Democracy, By Femi Aribisala

The system of government favoured by Nigerians has always been the democratic system. Even military governments in Nigeria seize power ostensibly in the interest of upholding or promoting democratic structures. We even had a period, under Ibrahim Babangida, when a military government at the federal level orchestrated democratic structures and elections at the state and […]

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Nigerian ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe has passed away

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described the death of Nigerian ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe, Queen Imaria Worlu, as unfortunate. The Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Olukunle Bamgbose, stated this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, on Wednesday, saying that the ministry received the sad news of […]

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Croatia humbles England to advance to the final in 2018 world cup

Awhile ago, Croatia just defeated England in the semi final of the 2018 world cup football tournament. Early in the second period of extra time. A ball nodded back in with a tiny gap behind the England defense, and Mandzukic summoned whatever he had left and went for it. The ball fell, Mandzukic beat his […]

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Nigerians speak on the alleged assassination attempt on governor Fayose

Some Nigerians have spoken on social media about the claim by the Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State that policemen slapped him. Fayose had alleged that the entrance to the Ekiti State Government House was blocked by the Nigeria Mobile Police personnel who were also shooting guns sporadically in the area. The governor further alleged […]

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Buhari tells Ekiti voters to shun ‘stomach infrastructure’

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has told Ekiti State voters to embrace the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Kayode Fayemi in the next Saturday’s election, and not allow themselves to be demeaned by the concept of stomach infrastructure. But the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Tuesday’s rally by the APC in […]

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Photo of the room where boyfriend allegedly killed and buried daughter of ex-Ondo deputy governor

Adeyemi Alao, the boyfriend and suspected killer of Miss Khadijat Oluboyo, daughter of the immediate past Deputy Governor of Ondo State, has been arrested by the Ondo State Police Command. Photo showing the room where he buried her beneath his bed has also emerged. 20-year-old Khadijat, a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, was found dead in […]

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