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The All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth leaders from the North-central and other stakeholders have expressed support for the candidacy of former Kano state governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to emerge as the next National Chairman of the ruling party. Ganduje’s name has been reportedly favoured by President Bola Tinubu and...

Nigerian youths have commended the group chief executive officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd), Mallam Mele Kyari, for promoting transparency, probity, accountability, and good governance in the Nigerian oil and gas industry vis-à-vis his handling of the recent fuel subsidy removal initiative. The youths, under the...

Seven soldiers have been reportedly killed in an ambush by bandits in Zamfara State. The bandits were said to have attacked the Kangon Garacce community under the Dangulbi district of the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara on Monday afternoon, killing several residents. A resident of Dangulbi community, Lawal Dangulbi...

Staff members of Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia early on Tuesday took to the streets to protest the non-payment of their two months’ salary arrears. No fewer than 200 of the workers, locked and barricaded the gate to the council headquarters and vowed not to reopen it until...

Hon Philip Agbese, the member representing Ado/ Okpokwu/ Ogbadibo Federal Constituency, says the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has been reduced to an item of ridicule in the last two years. Agbese, in a statement on Monday, described the NYSC as a cesspool for corruption, nepotism, gross incompetence and abuse...

Nigerian activist, Aisha Yesufu, has expressed thoughts on an Executive Council made up of wives of the 10th National Assembly Senators. Reports that the Nollywood actress, Regina Daniels had taken to social media to announce that she bagged an appointment. The youngest wife of Senator Ned Nwoko, disclosed that she...

The death toll from the diphtheria outbreak in Kaduna State has risen to 17 with 68 suspected cases identified across the state as of Sunday, the Kaduna State Government confirms. Out of the figure, 14 deaths were recorded in the Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area (LGA), while three fatalities occurred...

No fewer than eight persons have reportedly died while 11 persons are said to be in critical condition after allegedly taking killer alcoholic drinks in some parts of Ogun State. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists...

Nasir El-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna, says Taoreed Lagbaja, the chief of army staff (COAS), will wipe out terrorism and banditry in Nigeria. El-Rufai, in a Twitter post on Saturday, said Lagbaja leads from the front, adding that Boko Haram terrorists, bandits, members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra...

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has described the education sector under former President Muhammadu Buhari as catastrophic. Professor Osodeke, said that the administration of former President Buhari was the worst thing to happen to the country, lamenting that no government had ever given...