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CORPS MEMBERS TO START RECEIVING N77K MONTHLY ALLOWANCE FEBRUARY – NYSC DG The Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, has said corps members will start receiving monthly allowance of N77,000 in February 2025. Ahmed, who disclosed this Thursday while addressing the 2024 Batch ‘C’ Stream 11 corps members in Katsina, said the allowance has been …

YOU’RE JOBLESS, FRUSTRATED – SHEHU SANI REPLIES EL-RUFAI Activist and politician, Senator Shehu Sani, has taken a swipe at ex-Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai, calling him a “midget professor” who is jobless and frustrated after being denied a role in the Tinubu’-led administration. Sani was responding to El-Rufai’s recent criticism of the All Progressives Congress (APC), where he accused Tinubu’s …

RENO OMOKRI, SHEHU SANI POLITICAL MERCENARIES – EL-RUFAI Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, the immediate past governor of Kaduna state has described former presidential aide and former Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, as political mercenaries. El-Rufai made the claim on X, while responding to a post by Daniel Bwala, a presidential media aide. Bwala had chided El-Rufai for …

PROTESTERS SET US EMBASSY ON FIRE IN KINSHASA, DR CONGO Vandalised embassies and piles of burning tyres marked chaotic demonstrations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s capital Kinshasa to denounce the “inaction” of the international community over the conflict raging in Goma, the main city in the country’s east. On foot or motorcycles, hundreds of angry demonstrators responding on …

WHY WE KILLED IRONSI, INSTALLED GOWON, BY JEREMIAH USENI Lt. General Jeremiah Useni, former FCT Minister, who died a few days ago, had in this interview conducted by Premium Times in 2013, revealed the conspiracies which led to the assassination of Nigeria’s first military head of state, Major General JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi, and the installation of Lt. Col. Yakuu Gowon as …

COURT GRANTS SOWORE ₦10M BAIL, ORDERS PASSPORT SURRENDER, GIVES 24-HOUR EXTENSION TO MEET CONDITION Justice Musa Suleiman Liman of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to Omoyele Sowore, the former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), in the amount of N10 million with one surety of the same amount. The court also ruled that the …

FIGHT FOR POWER LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT – AMAECHI TELLS NIGERIANS AHEAD 2027 Former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has called on Nigerians to take an active stand in defending their votes and ensuring credible leadership in the 2027 elections.Speaking during a panel discussion at an event in Abuja on Monday, January 27, Amaechi stated that power is …

EL-RUFAI PREACHING HYGIENE TO NIGERIA AFTER LEAVING HEAP OF GARBAGE IN KADUNA,’ – SHEHU SANI A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has accused former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, of practising tyranny while in power and now pretending to preach democracy. Although Sani did not mention El-Rufai’s name in his tweet on X on Thursday, SaharaReporters …

OBIDIENTS BEHIND ENDSARS, TINUBU, THEIR TARGET – AKANDE The #EndSARS protest that was held across the country in October 2020 was meant to stop the political ambition of President Tinubu. According to Chief Bisi Akande, a senior APC stalwart and ally of the president, the mass demonstration was orchestrated by the Obidients to end Tinubu’s political career. Akande stated this …

EVEN IF TINUBU APPEARS AS MY SURETY, I WLL REJECT IT – SOWORE Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in 2023, says he will not accept President Bola Tinubu even if he volunteered to be his bail surety. Sowore is currently in police custody after he was invited for questioning over allegations of cyberstalking, negligent acts, …