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President Buhari (middle) The Federal Government on Tuesday unveiled plans to move the payroll of the military to the Integrated Personal and Payroll Information System platform before the end of December this year. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, said this in Abuja during a meeting she had with the Continuous Audit Team of […]

Nigerian troops have rescued at least 41 persons being held by Boko Haram in Borno State, the Army said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that troops also raided cattle rustlers and armed bandits in Zamfara State. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman said the operations were carried out on Tuesday by “the combination of […]

People queue as they wait for a commercial bus during the morning rush hour in Ojota district in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos November 23, 2015. Picture taken November 23, 2015. To match NIGERIA-POLITICS/ REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye – RTX1Z4I5 ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian labour unions representing millions of workers have been blocked from staging a general strike […]

AMBODE BRIEF VILLA PRESS The Lagos State Government said on Tuesday that so far, about 600km network of roads and streets in 366 locations across the State has been lit up under the ‘Light Up Lagos’ project initiated by the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode administration in the last one year. The State’s Commissioner for Energy and […]

An African woman with her baby. Not the woman in this story A 36-year old woman from Bloemfontein on Monday made a crashing entrance into the Guinness Book of World Records at the Harper University Hospital, by giving birth to her 14th child, all born from different fathers. According to the internationally recognized authority on […]

A Nigerian pastor has joined the ranks of those calling on the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to supply adequate information to the public before sensitive decisions are taken. He was speaking the same day the Nigerian Labour Congress vowed to ground Africa’s most populous nation to protest against fuel hike on 11 May. The Nigerian […]

Soldiers from the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army stand outside the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok in Borno State north-eastern Nigeria on March 25, 2016. There’s not much left of the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, northeast Nigeria, where Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenagers in the dead of night nearly two years ago. […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (middle), unveiling the plaque to commission the Light Up Lagos Project (newly installed Street Light infrastructure) on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway (Ile Zik – Toll Gate, Sango Ota), on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. With him are Senator Olamilekan Adeola (3rd right) and Executive Secretary, Lagos State Security Trust Fund, Dr. […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 18, 2016 re-arraigned a former Head of Service, HoS, to the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, before Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court, Abuja on an amended 35-count charge bordering on stealing and obtaining money by false pretence. In the amended charge dated November 2, 2015, […]

Dasuki The Federal High Court in Abuja today was told that the weapons found in the Asokoro residence of the former National Security Adviser, Colonel Muhammadu Sambo Dasuki retired barely 48 hours after he left Office in 2015 belong to the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). The weapons were said to be for […]

The insect that infects a leaf leaves in it. There is no going far to insecticide an insect from another garden or farm.That explains the pathetic story of Nigeria, a country grappling with unstable power supply, where the same government trying to bail its power sector out of a quagmire is owing power companies to […]

Nigerian union leaders last night walked out of a meeting with the government vowing to mobilise their members to commence an indefinite industrial strike from Wednesday. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), David Babachir Lawal led the Federal Government delegation, while Pressident of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba led the […]