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CNN today released a second report on the incident on the shootings at Lekki toll plaza during the #EndSARS protests despite threats of sanction from the Minister of Information and Culture,  Lai Mohammed, over its investigative report. CNN’s second report includes the Commander, 81 Division, Brig.Gen Ahmed Taiwo, admittance that soldiers took live ammunition to […]

The Federal Government has said it plans to end fish importation in the next two years, saying it has already ordered fish importers to consider farming and production locally. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, while speaking at the 35th Annual Conference of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria, in Abuja on Monday. He […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that Senator Ali Ndume (Borno South) to be remanded in the Kuje correctional centre. Justice Okon Abang made the order on Monday following Ndume’s failure to produce Abdulrasheed Maina, who is standing trail before the court on money laundering charge and for whom, Ndume stood surety. Justice […]

The Nigerian government is working towards reversing the declining trend in the country’s economy, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Development, Zainab Ahmed, has said. Responding to the latest gross domestic product figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics, which showed Nigeria is now in its second recession in five years, Mrs Ahmed […]

  Brig. Gen. Ahmed Taiwo, Commander of the 81 Division, Military Intelligence Brigade, Victoria Island has said that he was unaware that the Nigerian Army Headquarters had described the shootings at the Lekki Tollgate as “fake news” on Twitter. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Taiwo made the disclosure at the weeked while […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has shown that it expended N81.41bn on Nigeria’s refineries between January and August this year but the facilities refined no drop of crude oil all through this period. This data was contained in the just released August 2020 report of the NNPC. The Warri refinery, Kaduna and Port Harcourt refineries […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday received the report of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the probing of the former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu. The Salami led panel who have been investigating the EFCC under Ibrahim Magu presented the report of their investigation to President Buhari at the […]

  President Mohammadu Buhari on Friday congratulated the former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on his 63rd birthday. President Buhari who issued the congratulatory message via his twitter handle @mbuhari stated: “On behalf of the Federal Government, and Nigerians in general, I congratulate former President Goodluck Jonathan on his 63rd birthday, today. We celebrate […]

Nigeria needs to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) as soon as possible to ensure the country gets the maximum benefits from its petroleum resources before they dry up, Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, has said. Crude oil, which contributes almost 80 per cent to Nigeria’s gross domestic products (GDP), is projected by […]