Eid El-Kabir: Avoid violent extremist ideas, Buhari urges Muslims
President Muhammadu Buhari in his Eid El-Kabir message to Muslims in the country admonished the believers of the Islamic faith to avoid extremist ideas that give the religion a bad name.
He said the greatest...
Eid El-Kabir: Buhari hosts Guinea’s Alfa Conde in Daura
President of Guinea, Alpha Conde, on Saturday, met President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State.
According to a statement by the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday, President...
Xenophobia: Nigerian students shut South Africa’s Shoprite at Ota
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Saturday in Ota, Ogun State shutdown South Africa’s multi-million naira grocery chain, Shoprite.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the students picketed the shopping mall in protest...
Eid-El-Kabir: Lagos APC Women Leader Okoya-Thomas felicitates with Muslims
Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Hon. Jumoke Okoya-Thomas has extended greetings to Muslims in Lagos State and in Nigeria generally as the nation joins others to celebrate this...
2023: El-Rufai kicks against zoning ahead of Nigeria’s next presidential poll
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state has said the country needs to choose competence over zoning when electing its president.
In Nigeria, political offices, including the presidency, are rotated on the basis of geographical zones.
Olusegun...
DHQ constitutes joint panel to investigate police killing
The Defence Headquarters has constituted a seven-man joint investigation panel to unravel the circumstances that led to the killing of three police personnel and a civilian by troops of the Nigerian Army in Taraba.
The...
#RevolutionNow: Falana files motion challenging Sowore’s detention order
Human Rights Activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria Femi Falana has filed a motion to challenge the legality of the order of the Federal High Court in Abuja that gave the Department of State...
Bishop Oyedepo upset over killings of Winners Chapel’s pastor in Kaduna
Founder and the general overseer of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, popularly known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo charged congregation to pray against the killers of Jeremiah Omolewa, a resident pastor of the...
Declare insecurity an emergency, Soyinka tells FG
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, Thursday expressed concern over ‘upsetting’ insecurity in the country, describing the situation as calamitous.
He, therefore, called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency on insecurity currently...
Eid-el-Kabir: Buhari leaves Abuja for Daura
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday departed Abuja for Daura, his home town in Katsina State to ahead of the 2019 Eid-el-Kabir.
The federal government had on Tuesday declared August 12 and 13 as public holidays...