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The Yoruba Youth Council has passed a vote of confidence on the Group Chief ExecutiveOfficer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited Mr Mele Kyari. It described the attempts by some unscrupulous elements to blackmail Kyari as a distractionthat would do the oil industry no good. The YYC said that...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, says the Bola Tinubu administration has perfected an elaborate and sinister plot to gag the media ahead of the release of the records containing his criminal investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Shaibu said in a...

The Defence Headquarters says troops of the armed forces have in the last one week neutralised 31 terrorists and apprehended 81 others in various operations across North East, North Central and North West. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja....

The Minister of State for Defence, Dr Muhammed Matawalle, has charged the National Defence College (NDC), to develop a curriculum to aid in producing knowledge-based Armed Forces. Matawalle gave the charge as a Special Guest of Honour at the inauguration of the Course 32 of the NDC in Abuja on...

The Federal Government has temporarily suspended the N-Power Programme of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to give way for proper audit of the programme. The Federal Government kick-started the N-Power scheme on June 8, 2016 to address issues of youth unemployment and help to increase social...

…NIS Acting CG Inept, Should Be Booted Out Now – COYAC Insists! Since her appointment as Acting Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mrs Carol Wura-ola Adepoju has continued to court controversies that tend to not only put the Service in bad light, but also affect the service from...

The Arewa Youth Assembly (AYA) has petitioned the Acting Inspector General of Police and the Department of State Security over what the group termed coordinated attacks against the top management of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) especially its Group Chief Executive Officer, Mallam Mele Kyari, and Chief Financial...

An official of Chicago State University has testified under oath that the replacement certificate of the school, which President Bola Tinubu submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is not a document of the university, meaning that it was a forgery. The Registrar of the Chicago State University, Carl...

A popular Kenyan lawyer and activist, Prof. Patrick Lumumba, has described the new wave of emigration of African talents abroad as modern-day slavery. According to Lumumba, though the colonialists left Africa decades ago they are still indirectly exploiting Africa. The former head of the Kenyan anti-corruption agency was one of...

By Augustine Aminu The Organised Labour, comprising the Migeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have agreed to suspend their nationwide indefinite strike billed to commence today. The decision to call of the planned mass action by Labour followed two days marathon engagements with the union leaders...