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  A few hours after it announced a controversial suspension of UNICEF activities in the Boko Haram-ravaged North-east, the Nigerian Army has reversed itself. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the army on Friday afternoon announced the suspension, accusing the UN agency of acts that encourage Boko Haram terrorism. UNICEF is one of the several international organisations […]

If you don’t have electricity, it is not the Federal Government’s problem, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has declared. Fashola, who disclosed this while speaking at the Nextier Power Dialogue on Wednesday night in Abuja, told his listeners that there were problems in the power sector, but reminded them that it […]

Lawmaker representing Ibadan North Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives and Accord Candidate, Honourable Abiodun Dada Awoleye has called on all indigenes of Ibadan to shun political vandalism in lieu of the 2019 general elections. He made this call while delivering his keynote speech at the annual conference of the Ibadan Descendants Union (ID) […]

Senator Abdulfatai Buhari, Chairman Senate Committee on ICT and Cybercime  has called for  proper usage and maintainance of the ICT Centres facilitated for  secondary schools  and CBT centres in Oyo north Senatorial district. About 20 secondary schools benefited from the ICT centres and blocks of classroom and four CBT centres were constructed in Iseyin, Saki, […]

The Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, has threatened to work against the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State, Adebayo Adelabu, at the February elections. Shittu who lost in the race for the governorship ticket said without restitution, there won’t be peace in the APC. The National Working Committee of the APC […]

  Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, said on Tuesday that he did not receive any invitation to take part at the signing of a peace accord for 2019 presidential candidates. “I can confirm” that Mr Abubakar “did not receive any formal invitation to the signing of the peace pact,” Paul […]

The Senate yesterday refused to confirm four nominees picked by President Muhammadu Buhari on the ground that the south-south and south-east regions of the country were not represented. It also declined to confirm the appointment of nine others onto the board of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission (ICPC), saying the nominations were […]

the 2019 general elections in the state, Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, on Tuesday declared that the state was in a serious mess. According to him, 90 per cent of the projects executed by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) under the leadership of Governor Abiola Ajimobi are anti-people. Alao-Akala made this declaration while speaking at […]

The member representing Munsawa/Matazu Federal Constituency of Katsina State in the House of Representatives, Ibrahim Muritala, has dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Muritala’s notice of defection was contained in a letter read by Speaker Yakubu Dogara at the floor of the House at the beginning of Tuesday’s plenary. […]

The Governing Council of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso has announced the appointment of new principal officers to take over the running of the University from the incumbent Professor Adeniyi Gbadegesin led administration whose five year tenure ends on February 14, 2019. This was contained in a media statement from the public affairs unit […]