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Many residents have been killed following a heavy rainfall at the weekend in Jigawa state. According to NAN, Yusuf Sani, executive secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), confirmed...

Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and employment, says no law bars him from serving as the spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign. Keyamo was reacting...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reversed his decision, authorising the acquisition of Exxon Mobil shares by Seplat Energy Offshore Limited. According to Daily Trust, Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the...

Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, says it is okay if Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, wins the 2023 presidential election. The governor, who is a member...

BY DR. AKINWUMI A. ADESINA It didn’t take long for Russia’s war in Ukraine to impact Africa. Already grappling with soaring inflation and still recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, Africa...

Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, former governors, have been released from Kuje Custodial centre. The two former governors were convicted and jailed for corruption, but received presidential pardon in April....

The Nigerian Air force says its airstrikes killed Abdulkareem Lawal, a bandit kingpin responsible for the killing of a police area commander in Katsina. The air force, in a statement,...

Professor Isa Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy, has been honoured with a fellowship status by the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec). The honour was bestowed on the...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, asking the court to “declare arbitrary and illegal...

Festus Keyamo, minister of state for labour and employment, says President Muhammadu Buhari has done well in areas of infrastructure, rail and agriculture. In a thread of tweets on Saturday,...