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Following the deepening crisis between Etisalat and a consortium of 13 Nigerian Banks over a syndicated loan of about US$1.2 billion granted the telecom...

“I swear by the Almighty Allah to do justice. We are all human beings and not God, we must be fair and just," –...

Perhaps the biggest wrong step of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) at the inception of the present administration was its seeming inability to...

He is Engr Hamadu Musa Kidii the current Chairman, Rivers Basket Association and South South Zone Representative on the new board of the NBBF...

General Monguno: Tackling the Inter-Agency Rivalry By Yushau A. Shuaib On July 13, 2015, General Babagana Monguno (rtd) was announced as the new National Security Adviser...

Anti-Corruption: The Role of Media as a Change Agent By Nuhu Ribadu I am happy to be in the midst of a gathering of journalists and...

Complexity of Internal Security: How Military Manages MASSOB/IPOB Protests By Colonel Sagir Musa Between the 27 – 30 May 2017, there seems to be a dramatic...

The continued reluctance exhibited by the executive and legislative arms towards confirmation of some key appointments and re-appointments in the country remains a major...

The most painful and mind boggling dilemma in issuing rebuttals is the attempt to challenge respected professional colleagues who should know the truth from...

Contemptuous Justification of Illegal Detention In a reckless demonstration of official impunity Mr. Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Mohammadu Buhari on Media...

A prominent Pro-Democracy and Non-Governmental organisation- HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has lambasted the President Muhammadu Buhari's administration for sticking on it's...

The co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, Aisha Yesufu, has been at the centre of the storm in the past few...

There is no doubt that the fundamental rights of all Nigerian citizens are guaranteed by the 1999 constitution of the country, which provisions the...

The much anticipated launch of one of the first in the series of publications on the 2015 general elections titled, “Against the Run of...

The incessant attacks on State governors by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, is overheating the polity and, quite...

Her Excellency, Wife of the President has released a statement on her twitter handle @aishambuhari. You might find it newsworthy. Thank you. Suleiman Haruna Director of Information Office of...

Recent reports from Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) in partnership with the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) revealed that Nigeria has an unflattering crime...

Recently, while meeting with members of the United Nations Security Council led by the United Kingdom’s Permanent Representative, Ambassador Mathew Rycroft at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja, the Nigerian Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo had called for global support towards the review of the international legal instruments and conventions on warfare and conflicts, primarily to curtail the on-going unconventional and brutal operations of terrorists and insurgents around the world.

Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has offered her deepest condolences to Mrs. Pauline Tallen, former Deputy Governor of Plateau state, over the death of her husband, Elder John KatkwapTallen, who died at 83. Shedescribed him as an elder statesman, whose contributions to national development would not be forgotten. She was speaking during a condolence visit to the home of the late statesman, in Abuja, today,praying God to repose his soul and give the family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.

Federal Government has commissioned GaneXpert MTB/RIF machine for diagnosis and treatment of Tuberculosis (TB). The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole commissioned the Machine on Friday at the newly revitalized Healthcare Centre in Kuchungoro, a suburb in Abuja Municipal Area Council of the FCT as part of the activities to commemorate the 2017 World TB Day. Adewole said that the World TB Day was a day set aside by the United Nations Organization to create more awareness on the burden of TB disease in the World. He added that diagnosis and treatment of TB shouldn’t be at tertiary hospitals alone, but it could be brought down to the primary healthcare centers at the community level.