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Nasarawa State Governor, Engineer Abdullahi Sule, has promised to donate a free land to Gavi, a public–private global health partnership with the goal of increasing access to immunization, for the firm to establish a vaccine factory in the state. Engineer Sule made the pledge when he hosted Gavi’s interim Chief...

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Hon. Zacch Adedeji as the new Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). According to a statement by presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, on Thursday, the President has directed the erstwhile FIRS Chairman, Muhammad Nami, to proceed on three-month pre-retirement...

Once again, Nigeria has experienced a power outage after the national power grid, operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) from Osogbo in Osun State, collapsed. A check conducted by The Guardian in the early hours of today revealed that the grid dropped to a mere 273 megawatts of...

The House of Representatives on Wednesday, said that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) lied to Nigerians when it said that the executive arm of government gave each member N100 million as palliatives. The spokesman of the House, Akin Rotimi, described the statement by the NLC as malicious, irresponsible, and in...

Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC ) in the November 11 governorship election in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, appears to be playing the ostrich in the Opu-Nembe (Bassambiri) community crisis. Governor Douye Diri’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, while reacting to a statement credited to the former...

By Our reporter The Interim Administrator of the Amnesty Office, Maj Gen Barry Ndiomu(retd.) has awarded a N2.9 billion contract for the training of 139 pilots to Alom Aviation Limited two weeks to the end of his tenure. Ndiomu was appointed by former president Muhammadu Buhari in September 2022 to...

The Chicago State University has said that it was unsure whether the certificate that President Bola Tinubu submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2023 presidential election was genuine or not. Counsel to the university, Michael Hayes told the court during its hearing on Tuesday, 12 September,...

…NSA, CDS, IGP, Others Hailed For Collaboration The Centre for Policy and Strategic Engagement (CPSE) has hailed President Bola Tinubu for the improved synergy between the Armed Forces and other security agencies. The Centre noted that the President’s appointment of the current security chiefs and subsequent directives to them has...

The Embassy of Sweden in Nairobi, Kenya, has denied visas to several Nigerian journalists who were registered and invited to attend the 2023 Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC23) to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 19-22 September. The refusal has raised questions of discrimination against Nigerians and frustration among journalists,...

The Nigerian Airforce said its air strike carried out by the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai at Suwa in Kala Balge Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State on 11 September 2023, dislodged remnant of terrorists and clear the region of the remaining terrorists, insurgents and other criminals. Air...