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Thursday, 10 September 2015
After over two weeks away from public glare, Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai appeared yesterday at a peaceful rally of labor unions in the state and declared that he was alive and healthy, promising to continue the demolition of structures erected illegally on public lands.
Following his absence from public appearances, rumors had been rife that Gov El-Rufai suddenly took ill as a result of his demolition of properties belonging to spiritually powerful people and was flown abroad for treatment.
After listening to the labor unions...
President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to dedicate a day in the month of May as Nigeria's National Fitness Day.
In an open letter to the President, the Amateur Body Building and Fitness Federation of Nigeria, ABBFFN lamented that despite unprecedented advancement in modern healthcare, there is a corresponding increase in deaths from preventable and noncommunicable diseases.
“The health situation in Nigeria is frightening as there is a sharp rise in preventable deaths caused by diseases such as heart diseases, stroke and other cardiovascular...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved the immediate sacking of the Chairmen of the Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service, Secondary Education Board and Universal Basic Education Board.
The decision was conveyed through a memo referenced19/S.81/T1/97 and sent to the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory, Mr John Chukwu on Wednesday by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engr Babachir David Lawal.
The sacked Chairmen were directed to comply with Federal Government directive on the dissolution...
Ridding the country of terrorists and oil thieves has not been an easy fix for the Buhari government.
President Buhari said so in Abuja on Thursday while receiving President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo at the Presidential Villa.
Buhari said that his administration is saddled with the difficult tasks of fighting insurgents in the North East, oil thieves in the South South and providing infrastructure for the citizens.
Noting that development is impossible without security, Buhari called for cooperation among African countries to fight insurgency...
Following claims by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governors that President Buhari is turning Nigeria into a dictatorship, APC chieftain, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has risen to the defense of the President.
Tinubu was in Aso Rock Villa, Abuja on Wednesday in the company of Senator Shehu Sani and Chief Bisi Akande to confer with President Buhari.
According to him, "He (Buhari) was elected on a platform of democracy; he has adhered to the rule of law so far. What is dictatorship about what he has done? He has helped to stimulate the economy in the various...
An Israeli construction worker was killed on Wednesday at Apo Mechanic Village, Abuja during a kidnap attempt.
According to an eyewitness account, the late staff of Gilmore Construction Company was one his way to a construction site when he was intercepted by a gang of four men in a Toyota saloon car.
They dragged him out of his car and attempted to force him into their own, but in the scuffle that ensued as he resisted abduction, they fatally shot him.
The gunshot sound was said to have attracted the police who engaged the hoodlums in a gun...
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