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NO ONE CAN CHASE US OUT OF PLATEAU, IT’S OUR STATE too’ – FULANI YOUTH LEADER VOWS A Fulani youth leader in Plateau State, Hamisu Garba, has insisted that any attempt by natives to forcefully intimidate and chase them out of the state will not work as they are also citizens of the state. Hamisu, who spoke in an exclusive …

ONE KILLED, AK-47, VEHICLES RECOVERED AS POLICE, SUSPECTED ESN MILITANTS CLASH IN ANAMBRA A fierce two-hour gun duel broke out early Tuesday morning between police-led joint security forces and suspected members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) at the Ekwulobia Roundabout near the flyover in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. According to a security situation report filed by …

TINUBU DIDN’T SUPPORT BUHARI’S EMERGENCE AS APC CANDIDATE — LAURETTA ONOCHIE Lauretta Onochie, former Special Assistant (SA) to former President Muhammadu Buhari, has claimed that Nigeria’s incumbent President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, did not support Buhari’s emergence as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014. Buhari, a two-term president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023, emerged the first …

TINUBU SENDS SHETTIMA TO LONDON TO VISIT AILING BUHARI IN HOSPITAL President Bola Tinubu earlier this week detailed Vice President Kashim Shettima to fly to London from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to check on ailing former Nigerian leader, Muhammadu Buhari, following reports that he was undergoing treatment in an undisclosed London hospital, THISDAY learnt on Thursday. Shettima had on the invitation …

TINUBU SENDS SHETTIMA TO LONDON TO VISIT AILING BUHARI IN HOSPITAL President Bola Tinubu earlier this week detailed Vice President Kashim Shettima to fly to London from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to check on ailing former Nigerian leader, Muhammadu Buhari, following reports that he was undergoing treatment in an undisclosed London hospital, THISDAY learnt on Thursday. Shettima had on the invitation …

NNPC REFINERIES MAY NEVER WORK AGAIN — DANGOTE The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has doubted the possibility of the state-owned Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries functioning again. Dangote also stated that the refineries, which are under the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, had gulped up to $18bn, yet have refused to work. …

JONATHAN PLOTTED TO UNSEAT ME AS BORNO GOVERNOR – VP SHETTIMA Vice President Kashim Shettima has alleged that former President Goodluck Jonathan once plotted to remove him from office during his tenure as Governor of Borno State. Shettima, who governed Borno from 2011 to 2019, made the revelation on Thursday in Abuja during the public presentation of OPL 245: Inside …

WHY EVERYONE TOLD ME I MADE A MISTAKE – EL-RUFAI Former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has said his decision to choose a different path by speaking up made “everyone to tell me that I made a mistake”. According to TheCable, El-Rufai said this in Abuja, on Thursday, during the launch of “OPL 245: Inside Story of the $1.3 …

WE’VE UNCOVERED MIND-BOGGLING CORRUPTION IN OIL AND GAS SECTOR – EFCC The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, on Wednesday disclosed that the agency had begun investigating the financial records of the oil and gas sector and had already uncovered “mind-boggling” levels of corruption. He revealed that the ongoing probe into the oil and …

EVEN WITH A JOINT TICKET ATIKU, OBI CAN’T DEFEAT TINUBU  —  ONANUGA Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has said a joint ticket of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, can’t stop President Bola Tinubu’s re-election in 2027. The opposition coalition adopted the African Democratic Congress (ADC) …