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Kalthum Foundation for Peace (KFP), a charity organisation, says the former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, did his best to restore peace and security to the country as army chief. The Chairperson and Founder of KFP, Ummu Kalthum-Rabiu, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja....

President Bola Tinubu’s administration inherited 38 uncompleted road projects worth N979bn from the Muhammadu Buhari government, findings by The PUNCH have shown. The projects were identified through an analysis of the 2023 budget and cross-checked with the national monitoring and evaluation platform, EYEMARK, which was launched by Buhari in December...

Former President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, broke his silence on the petrol subsidy removal ‘challenge’ that he left for his successor, Bola Tinubu, saying had the policy been implemented, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Tinubu would have lost the last general polls. Speaking through his erstwhile spokesman, Garba Shehu,...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it paid N307.408 billion as petrol subsidy payment in May 2023. The national company disclosed this in its monthly presentation to the federation account allocation committee (FAAC) meeting on June 22, 2023. Subsidy or under-recovery is the shortfall for the underpriced sales...

Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has ordered the Accountant General to stop the salaries of 10,800 workers employed by his predecessor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. Before it took over, the new administration had accused Ganduje’s government of illegally employing over 10,000 workers when it was about to leave office....

The Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Audi, has advised oil thieves to leave the country. He warned that those who stay in the country intending to continue with the nefarious have his men to contend with. He said the President, Bola Tinubu has a tough stand...

By Abdulmalik Sulaiman The few weeks old administration of Gov. Abba Kabir Yusuf has opted to restore the old glory of Kano State as both educational and commerce center development as it has commenced the series of initiatives of the Kwankwassiya Movement that are all aimed at repositioning the state...

The Federal Government has declared Wednesday, June 28 and Thursday, June 29, 2023 as Eid-El-Kabir holidays. This was contained in a statement by a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Oluwatoyin Akinlade. “The Federal Government has declared Wednesday June 28th and Thursday June 29th 2023 Public Holidays in commemoration...

Vice President Kashim Shettima, on Monday, decorated the Acting Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Adeniyi’s decoration comes one week after he was named the Acting Customs Chief by President Bola Tinubu on Monday, June 19, 2023, alongside other new security helmsmen. Credit: ABATMediaCentre —Follow us...

A retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, Nuhu Ribadu, has officially taken over from Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno (retd) as Nigeria’s National Security Adviser (NSA). At a brief event in Abuja on Monday, Ribadu promised to live up to the expectations of Nigerians and secure the country from all forms of...