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  Acting Inspector General (I-G) of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has denied the allegation that the Federal Government offered to pay Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) N100 billion to shun kidnapping in the country. Adamu denied the allegation on Tuesday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen shortly after a closed-door session that lasted more than 2 hours at …

  President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that he will not let Nigerians down in providing effective and result-oriented leadership that safeguards and ensures a better life for citizens, because he is conscious of the weight of responsibility on his shoulders. He was speaking after attending the daily Tafsir (Quranic interpretations) marking the month of Ramadhan fast at the State House …

  FOR two and half hours yesterday, Senators drilled the Acting Inspector- General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu at the hallowed chamber. At the closed door session, IGP Adamu told the Senators that major problems confronting the Police Force were shortage of funds, equipment and inadequate personnel that are required tk carry out the job. According to him, if these …

Buhari’s School Feeding: 7.3m Eggs, 767 Cows Consumed Weekly, Says Osinbajo Ado-Ekiti – The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN, has hinted that no fewer than 7.3 million eggs and 767 were being killed on a weekly basis under the School Feeding Programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari led-administration. He also disclosed that 9.3 million pupils in over 56,506 primary schools …

  ABUJA – Former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2019 Presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, to accept responsibility for the spate of killings going on in some parts of the country. The PDP chieftain in a statement signed by his media adviser, …

  The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has warned new lawmakers to choose leadership answerable to them and their constituents, and not to godfathers who live only for themselves. Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at a conference organized by the #NotTooYoungToRun movement, for new lawmakers, Dogara charged them to shun the arrogance of power. He said the …

  An Abuja magistrate’s court has granted bail to Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Osun state governorship election. The court granted him N2 million bail after his arraignment on Tuesday. Adeleke, who currently represents Osun west senatorial district, was charged to court for alleged certificate forgery. The police had said they have fresh evidence …

  President Muhammadu Buhari says the assistance of the UN and the international community will be invaluable in reversing the devastation visited on Nigeria by the Boko Haram insurgency. A statement by Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, said Buhari stated this when he received the visiting President of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Ms …

  The Nigerian Army says it legally acquired its landed property in parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and advised indigenes protesting alleged land grab to channel their complaints to the appropriate quarters. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai stated this on Tuesday in reaction to protest by some indigenes, who barricaded the Air Port road, alleging …

  The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has disclosed that a total of 9.3 million pupils are savouring the benefits of the home grown school feeding programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government across the country. Osinbajo said the programme apart from shoring up school enrollments, had also been of tremendous help in job creation and poverty reduction among Nigerians. …