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Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, says it is time to restructure Nigeria in order to ensure equitable distribution of resources. Speaking at a public lecture to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Arewa House, held in Kaduna, the governor maintained that restructuring the country is in the best interest of ensuring sustainable development. He averred that […]

The Senate has described as, “fallacy of the highest order,” a statement credited to the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on the state of Nigerian roads. Fashola, according to the red chamber, had alleged that the National Assembly members should be held responsible for the poor state of the federal roads […]

The senate committee on power has uncovered 20 proposed electricity projects in Lau local government area, the home LGA of Mamman Saleh, minister of power. The committee members condemned the proposed projects during the 2021 budget proposal of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA). The lawmakers also accused the minister of uneven distribution of projects under […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria’s economy is too fragile. The president in a tweet from his official tweeter handle warned that the nation cannot handle another round of lockdown hence the need to avert a second wave of Covid-19. “Looking at the trends in the other countries, we must do all we can […]

Eight months after Nigeria recorded its index case of COVID-19 on February 27, 2020, the number of persons who have recovered from the virus has now surpassed 58,000. Lagos accounts for close to half of the country’s total recoveries with 20,145 patients discharged in the state, although it also has the highest number of cases […]

The Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, has appealed to members of the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers to halt their planned attacks on oil facilities in the region. Omo-Agege’s appeal, according to a statement by his media office on Wednesday, came on the heels of recent threats by a coalition of nine militant groups […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians to desist from actions and comments that can jeopardise the unity and progress of the country. Buhari made the appeal on Wednesday during the launch of the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day (AFRD) emblem and appeal fund. He said this year’s occasion reminds Nigerians of the need to […]

The Nigerian Air Force has arrested its officials caught on tape flogging residents who defaulted the curfew imposed on Osun State. NAF made this known in a series of tweets on Wednesday titled, ‘Alleged flogging of curfew defaulters in Ilesha, Osun State’. The Osun State Government had imposed a curfew on the state after hoodlums […]