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Elections: FG orders immediate payment of February salary
The federal government has directed the immediate payment of February salaries to enable workers wishing to travel for Saturday’s presidential and national assembly elections...
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FG approves N100bn Sukuk funds for Nigerian roads
The Federal Government has decided to use the N100 billion Sovereign Sukuk bonds proceeds to construct 642.69 kilometres of roads across in NIgeria.
The cheque...
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BREAKING: Court sacks Abba K. Yusuf as Kano PDP candidate
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has nullified the candidature of Engineer Abba Kabir Yusuf of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the...
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APC NWC suspends Amosun, Okorocha
The national working committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended Ibikunle Amosu and Rochas Okorocha, governors of Ogun and Imo states...
NNPC announces N12bn surplus
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Sunday, declared a trading surplus of N12.13 billion in its financials for December 2018.
In a statement on...
PDP kicks as Kogi ‘APC supporters’ destroy Atiku’s billboards
Some billboards and other campaign materials of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have been destroyed in Lokoja, Kogi state...
Back To The Future: A Far-reaching Analysis of Nigeria’s Elections By Sani Muhammad...
By Sani Muhammad Uzairu
The re-introduction of multi-party democracy has brought a promise of peace and a new era of governance to all Nigerians. The...
Politics
Governors urge CJN to ignore CCT
Five out of the six governors of the South-South Governors Forum have asked the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, not to honour...
Kano Police spokesman Majia transferred to Yobe
Magaji Musa Majia, the long-time veteran spokesman for the Kano State Police Command has been transferred to Damaturu, the Yobe state capital by the...
Strike: FG, ASUU fail to reach agreement as strike continues
The federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have again failed to reach a compromise to end the ongoing strike by...
Abba K. Yusuf is Kano PDP guber candidate despite court order–INEC
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has said that Abba Kabir Yusuf remains the candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano...
Abdulaziz wins Wole Soyinka award for exposing Adeosun’s fake NYSC certificate
Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, Premium Times associate editor, has won the Wole Soyinka award for investigative journalist of the year (online category).
He also won the coveted...
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Nigeria’s Democratic Doldrums By Sani Muhammad Uzairu
By Sani Muhammad Uzairu
The world has moved on and autocracy, despotism, communism, oligarchy, fascism and all other forms of government have been kicked against...
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I’m Nigerian by birth, Atiku replies APC
The Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in the February 23 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has denied the All Progressives Congress’ allegation that he is...
I am assiting Buhari, not manipulating NASS – Tinubu
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), has denied reports of manipulating process for nominating leadership of the National Assembly...
Zamfara Emirs apologise to NAF over allegations of killing civilians
The Chairman, Zamfara State Council of Chiefs, Alhaji Attahiru Ahmad, has apologized to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) over its recent allegations that innocent...
