President Donald Trump of the United States has told President Muhammadu Buhari that his country will not accept the killing of Christians. The American leader said this while playing host to his Nigerian counterpart at the White House on Monday. “We have had very serious problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria, we
An International Consortium led by GE has signed an agreement with Nigerian officials in Washington D.C. to proceed with the Interim Phase of the Nigerian narrow-gauge railway concession. The agreement followed the award of preferred bidder to GE by the Federal Government in May 2017. Initiated by General Electric, the world’s premier digital industrial company,
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged President Muhammadu Buhari is planning to present false performance indices to the United States’ President Donald Trump in order to secure US endorsement for his re-election. The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan said propaganda and falsehood would not help the nation but
The Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) has urged the Federal Government to constitute a technical committee to evolve solutions to the lingering crises between herdsmen and farmers in the country. Dr Godwin Abonyi, the President of the association, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has assured that it would revamp the nation’s economy as well as ‘restore’ democratic tenets and the rule of law when it reclaims power in 2019. The party revealed that it was already working on a robust blueprint for national cohesion and economic recovery. A statement on Sunday from the
President Muhammadu Buhari should be ready for a probe on arms purchase by his government if former Vice President Atiku Abubakar wins next year’s presidential election. Atiku personally served notice of the probe yesterday while featuring on BBC Hausa Service. Although the former vice president hailed the Buhari administration for checking the security challenge in
The country home of the embattled President General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo at Ukehe in Enugu State, was on Sunday rocked by bomb blast. Nwodo’s leadership of Ohanaeze has been enmeshed with serious crisis for several months now. According to the Enugu State Police, the blast emanated from an Improvised Explosive
FORMER former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd) wants a meeting of all leaders and elder statesmen on current violence and also calls for prayers to overcome the recent killings. He said all leaders and elders in Nigeria should come together for an urgent meeting on ways to end the killings. Gowon condemned
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has warned and sanctioned 121 radio stations across the country for breaching the Nigerian Broadcasting Code. The Nigerian Television Authority, Channels Television, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) and African Independent Television (AIT) were prominent among the sanctioned broadcasting stations for contravening the broadcasting rules. Their names were contained in
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed new dates for the conduct congresses and shifted the May 14 set for the national convention to June. The party had initially on April 18, announced that it would hold its National Convention on May 14. The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Bolaji Abdullahi, said the ward