President Muhammadu Buhari has lambasted HSBC for saying his second term would stunt the economy.HSBC Bank Plc is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. The financial institution had in a recent report predicted that President Buhari will lose the 2019 presidential election.A statement on Saturday by his spokesman, Garba […]
The death has been announced of Pa Lamidi Adams, father of the Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba Land, Otunba Gani Adams.Pa Adams passed away in the early hours of Saturday in a private hospital in Lagos at the age of 80. This was confirmed in a statement personally signed by Gani Adams and made available to […]
The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) on Sunday asked the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to first build the Labour Party “as a true pro-working people political platform” before rejecting the Presidential ambition of Dr Olusegun Mimiko, former Governor of Ondo State, to contest under the platform of the party in 2019. SPN in a statement […]
Governor Simon Lalong has condoled with President Muhammadu Buhari over the demise of H. E. Dr. Haruna Bawa Abdullahi Wase, the Ambassador to Qatar. The Governor who was speaking in Shendam, described the deceased as an illustrious son of Plateau State, regretting that he passed on at a crucial time, when his peace advocacy was […]
Northern Groups under the auspices of Pro-Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria on Sunday lambasted Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State for allegedly plotting to impose Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State as a consensus Presidential Flag bearer for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The group who spoke through its Northern Coordinator, Honorable Aliyu I. […]
The Chief of Air Staff, Sadiq Abubakar, has said that the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, acquired 30 aircraft and activated 13 grounded ones in the last three years. Mr Abubakar, an air marshal, disclosed this on Saturday at the inauguration of the new Headquarters of Air Training Command, and the Sports complex at the Air […]
The All Progressives Congress, APC, says the resignation of Kemi Adeosun as Minister of Finance and acceptance of same by President Muhammadu Buhari is an action of honour, strength, character and integrity. Yekini Nabena, the APC acting National Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday […]
The Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, says in spite of pocket of attacks by remnant of Boko Haram terrorists in Borno North, the army is tightening the noose against them. Mr Buratai, lieutenant-general, urged Nigerians and people of the region in particularly not to panic as those attacks do not signal resurgence of insurgency […]
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Adamawa State has endorsed the state governor, Jibrilla Bindow, for the party’s governorship ticket. A former chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu and President Muhammadu Buhari’s in-law, Mahmoud Halilu Ahmed, have thrown their hats into the ring to challenge the governor despite incumbency factor. The state party chairman, Ibrahim Bilal, […]
The National Population Commission, NPC, said 91% of Jigawa children and newborn babies do not have birth certificate due to the ignorance of parents and child-care givers on the importance of birth registration. Speaking at the stakeholders strategic meeting for media on birth registration in Jigawa state organized for Primary Health Care Managers by UNICEF […]
