Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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Nigerian Army colonel Mohammed Ma’aji allegedly spearheaded a plan to overthrow Nigeria’s democratically elected government in a coup d’état last year. But the alleged plot reportedly collapsed before it ever became public knowledge. Nigeria’s chequered history has seen a mix of “phantom coup” thwarted in the middle of planning, coups foiled during execution, and six…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has urged members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to remain calm in the face of the Federal Government’s reported half-salary payment. In a statement he personally signed in Abuja yesterday, Gbajabiamila said that efforts were underway to find long-term solutions to the issues…
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on a one-day official visit. He is scheduled to inaugurate the first flyover bridge, located at the northeastern segment of Maiduguri, and a twenty kilometer dualized highway from under the flyover to Muna town. The President, who alighted from the Presidential plane at about…
PRESIDENT Buhari Monday implored the 36 governors to pay all workers their salaries before the Yuletide so that workers will have a joyful Christmas celebrations. He, therefore, directed the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, the Minister of Economic Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma and the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun…
South West region of Nigeria is leading in the appointments made so far by President Muhammadu Buhari since he took office on May 29, 2015. According to a list of 157 appointments provided by the Presidency on Saturday, South West Nigerians took the lion share, 38 followed by the North West, the president’s region, which…
The Federal Government has finally acknowledged Buhari is sick and not coming home yet. The is the import of the statement released yesterday by his office. Hitherto, same office has denied this fact for the past two weeks the President has been away in London, UK. President Muhammadu Buhari has now requested for an extension of…
