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Chief George Moghalu is the immediate past National Auditor of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Moghalu is, currently, the Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority, NIWA. In this interview, he says his geopolitical zone is not marginalized in President Muhammadu...

A palpable sense of insecurity and concerns over fresh attacks on oil facilities now pervades Bayelsa State. This development was reinforced by the Supreme Court’s invalidation of the electoral victory of former Bayelsa … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News –...

DETAILS have emerged of how the bill by two lawmakers in the sixth Delta State House of Assembly to put an end to killings by rogue herdsmen in the state was killed by political forces allegedly in a bid not to pitch Governor Ifeanyi Okowa … Read more via Vanguard News –...

For Nigerians who expected President Muhammadu Buhari to come down hard on his kitchen cabinet, otherwise dubbed the cabal, for exposing the lack of cohesion in his government, through recent and previously leaked memos, that may not come soon.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News –...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the National Assembly to save the nation by immediately undertaking a forensic probe of the Buhari presidency, following an alleged report that the federal government is planning to pillage the looted funds repatriated by the United State...

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has denied sending youths to boo the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The former state Governor was booed by protesting youths at the Benin airport on Saturday.... Read more via P.M. News –...

Former Minister of Education, Alhaji Dauda Birma, has said that only God can save Nigeria from splitting. The former Minister raised the alarm that some foreign forces with their internal collaborators are fighting hard to ensure that the country breaks up.… Read more via Naijaloaded –...

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, said the conflicts between farmers and herdsmen can best be resolved through community action.... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2PfKjVW Get More Nigeria Political News

Ike Ekweremadu has expressed his misgivings about community policing in Nigeria. Ekweremadu said that in a federal system like Nigeria, regional security outfits will only end up in failure.... Read more via Legit.ng – https://ift.tt/3c3vBeC Get More Nigeria Political News

For those who live and work in Kaduna, they did not need to be told that something very serious was taking place at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, the official name of the Government House in the historic town, which once served as the rallying point for Northern Nigerian.... Read more via...

One person was killed as the local government primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi turned bloody on Friday with pockets of violence recorded in some parts of the state.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2HJIADZ Get More Nigeria Political News

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia, Chief Charles Ike, has charged the Senate leadership to declare the Abia North Senatorial seat vacant due to the incarceration of Sen. Orji Kalu.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2SQ7CYt Get More Nigeria Political News

Biafra Nations Youth League, BNYL, has rejected a community policing format proposed by the Inspector-General of Police, IGP for the Southeast region. The BNYL also faulted Southeast leaders for accepting the idea.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2vTyY76 Get More...

Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation has warned against bad happenings in Nigeria in the next few months. Fani-Kayode in a post on his Twitter page said he has a feeling that terrible things may happen in the next few months in Nigeria.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria –...

A human rights group has called on the Service Chiefs to honourably leave their offices if President Muhammadu Buhari refuses to sack them. DAILY POST reports that following the rising cases of insecurity in.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2SRSLNj Get More Nigeria...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has stated that there is no going back in plans to regulate social media in the country. Speaking with reporters in Abuja yesterday, Lai Mohammed said the federal government has already contacted two significant platforms; Facebook and...

The ousted deputy governor-elect in Bayelsa State, Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo has named three of his Primary School teachers who can confirm to the world that he did not forge his certificates. The deputy governor-elect, who addressed the press in Abuja on Thursday denied the...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; says the challenges of insecurity in the country are being aggravated by detractors using fake news and disinformation. Meanwhile, Lai Mohammed, who stated this at a news conference on Thursday, February 20 in Abuja; conceded that the...

A fresh diplomatic row is brewing between Nigeria and the United States’ over the return of $100 million, which the American authorities say was stolen by the former Head of State, late Gen. Sani Abacha. It is understood that the U.S. is ‘seriously’ opposing plans by the Federal Government to...

President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, in Abuja said the issue of partial closure of Nigeria’s land border to goods from neighbouring countries will be determined by report of tripartite committee made up of Nigeria, Benin and Niger Republic.... Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/3bXj1gB...