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The Senate will not interfere in the alleged face-off between President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, its spokesman Senator Adedayo Adeyeye has declared. Answering questions from Senate Correspondents after plenary in Abuja, Adeyeye said while the President reserves the prerogative to assign duties to his aides, he is not aware that any roles assigned to the Vice President ... Read More »

The Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Festus Keyamo, has been redeployed to the Ministry of Labour and Employment. He is to swap positions with Minister of State of Labour Tayo Alasoadura who moves to the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. This was disclosed in a statement from the Director of Information at the Office of Secretary to the ... Read More »

The evacuation of the second batch of Nigerians from South Africa owing to ongoing xenophobic attacks, suffered an interruption on Tuesday following the delay in granting landing permit to Air Peace. The airline has volunteered to evacuate Nigerians willing to return to the country following the recent violence against foreigners in the southern African country. The News Agency of Nigeria ... Read More »

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday met with the leadership of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to discuss measures being taken towards alleviating hardship faced by Ijegun residents over the activities of cluster oil depots in the area. The meeting, held at the Lagos House in Marina, was aimed at bringing lasting relief to residents living around ... Read More »

The Nigerian government says it would demand compensation from South African government over the killing of its citizens in the xenophobia attacks. The Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, disclosed this in Akure, the Ondo State capital. She spoke at the ‘1st Diaspora Lecture’ held at the Federal University of Technology Akure on Thursday evening. Our reporter said  ... Read More »

The Agege Local Government in Lagos State has given 100 artisans and traders N100, 000 each in its periodic empowerment scheme. Mr Ganiyu Egunjobi, the Executive Chairman of the council, presented the sums totalling N10 million to the beneficiaries drawn across the seven wards in the local government area. The ceremony was held on Sunday as part of activities to ... Read More »

Like it ignored the divine warning to offer Senator Bukola Saraki the ticket during the last presidential primary, and failed, the opposition political party, PDP, is yet on the road to what looks like another loss, as a new prophecy given by the same prophet, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele, to PDP had been shunned. In his annual prophecy book, Warning ... Read More »

A 12-year-old schoolgirl has been raped by her teacher in Namtari, a community in Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Our correspondent gathered she was confirmed pregnant on Thursday by a referral centre that admitted her for care. Bashir Tahir, a member of the Adamawa Hope Center located at the state Specialist Hospital in Yola where the girl ... Read More »

Bobrisky’s story is not easy to tell. The first problem is deciding what pronoun to use. By the circumstances of his birth, ‘he’ is the right pronoun, but by what Bobrisky has chosen, ‘she’ is correct. “Tani bro e? (Who is your bro?). I’m a fine babe,” Bobrisky once replied a commentator who referred to him as a man. There ... Read More »

– Shutdown Shoprite, MTN businesses – Osinbajo, Ramaphosa condemn violence – .Stray bullet kills man as police stop attempted arson South African businesses in Nigeria on Tuesday bore the brunt of the ongoing Xenophobic attacks of Nigerians in South African. Angry youths in their hundreds in major cities such as Lagos, Uyo and Ibadan stormed Shoprite and MTN offices disrupting ... Read More »