The Federal Government has described as senseless the claim in certain quarters that the abduction of some students from a boarding school in Kankara, Katsina State, and their release was stage-managed. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, dismissed the claim on Saturday when he featured on a special edition of the Nigeria ...

President Muhammadu Buhari plans to speak with the 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, after Juma’at Service on Friday. Buhari who is completing a week-long visit to his country home, Daura, Katsina State, would perform Friday’s Juma’at prayer in Daura before meeting the rescued students. The president had on Thursday night ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate opening of four land borders. The borders are Seme in the southwest, Illela in Sokoto State, Maigatari in the northwest, and Mfun in the south-south. The announcement was made by the Minister of Finance at the end of the 28th virtual FEC meeting on Wednesday. The President also ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and Mr. Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources to use their leadership positions “to urgently probe how N116 million was spent by his Ministry to buy biros, letterhead, and toners in 2015. The Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation had last ...

Global activists and celebrities on Thursday hit out at the Nigerian government over a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters demonstrating against police brutality two months ago, a movement now commonly called #EndSARS. In an open letter addressed to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and made public in Lagos to coincide with International Human Rights Day, 60 ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to honour the invitation by members of the House of Representatives to address them on the security situation in the country as plenary commenced on Thursday in his absence. Members of the House of Representatives had earlier on December 1 passed a resolution to invite President Buhari to brief the house ...

Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, says the National Assembly has no constitutional power to summon President Muhammadu Buhari. Malami disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement titled ‘Buhari’s Summon: NASS Operates Outside Constitutional bounds.’ The AGF said, “National Assembly has no constitutional power to envisage or contemplate a situation where the president would ...

The Nigerian government plans to reopen its land borders, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. He explained that the closure of the nation’s land borders was part of the efforts by the government to control the smuggling of weapons and drugs into the country. President Muhammadu Buhari stated this on Tuesday at a security meeting with ...

Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, says he has no intention to return to the office which he held for two years. In a statement on Monday titled, My position has not changed, Oshiomhole insisted that he would not take the offer even if he was given a second chance. ...

Dr Nana Chidi-Emmanuel, daughter of retired Gen. Domkat Bali who died last week, has said that her father’s last wish was for Nigeria to remain united and peaceful. Bali died on Friday, Dec. 4, after a protracted illness. “My father always wanted to see a peaceful and united Nigeria. As a soldier, he was loyal ...