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President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday, solicited the support of UK to revive Lake Chad, which is a means of livelihood to millions of people. Buhari told the visiting Prime Minister that Europe and China were already conducting an in-depth study on recharging the Lake through inter-basin transfer from Central African Republic. He, however, assured Prime Minister May on the country’s commitment to conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2019. The assurance came as Nigerian and British governments signed agreements on defence, security and economic development to strengthen the bilateral relationship between the two countries. This was even as the Federal…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), under Paul Usoro as its President may not condone the rule of law abuses by the present Federal Government, a retired Permanent Secretary has hinted. The President Buhari-led government had since refused to obey some court directives, including orders that granted bail to the detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, as well as a judgment that ordered immediate release of detained leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, Sheikh Ibrahimm El-Zakzaky and his wife. The NBA had on May 29 when the country marked its democracy day, scored President Buhari’s…

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Barring last minutes change of plans, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, will today make formal declaration of his intent to vie for the office of the president on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) come 2019, LEADERSHIP exclusively learnt last night. The declaration will take place at an elaborate event billed for Abuja. As a part of the last-minute preparation for the declaration, which will be attended by governors, members of the National Assembly and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Saraki yesterday visited former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, where the duo met behind closed-doors. Multiple sources…

Enyimba International, the Nigerian Professional Football League, NPPL, beat Cara Brazzaville of Congo 1-0 in their final group stage game of the 2018 CAF Confederation Cup played on Wednesday, August 29. The People’s Elephant picked up a vital three points in against Djoliba of Mali in their last group encounter to put themselves in a favourable position to advance to the next round. Enyimba needed at least a point to progress to the quarter-finals but three to be sure depending on the result in the other group game between Williamsville of Ivory Coast and Djoliba The first half ended goalless…

At last, Senator Godswill Akpabio has broken his long-held silence over issues of governace in Akwa Ibom State, South South Region he ruled for eight years that have given room for speculations in different quarters. Akpabio who ruled Akwa Ibom State from 2007 to 2015 told his battery of supporters on Sunday “I collected N1.7 trillion in eight years from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC,’’ against purportedly bogus figure bandied by his critics that he collected more than N3 trillion. The immediate past governor who recently left Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for All Progressives Congress, APC, also deflated accusations…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has imposed heavy sanctions totaling N5.87 billion on four banks under its regulatory purview. By implication, the banks are to refund $8,134,312,397.63 for ‘flagrant violation of extant laws and regulations of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, including the Foreign Exchange (Monitoring and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1995 of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Foreign Exchange Manual, 2006.’ Figures obtained from the CBN on Wednesday, August 29, 2018, indicate that the highest fine of N2,470,604,767.13 was slammed on Standard Chartered Bank, while Stanbic IBTC Nigeria was fined N1,885,852,847.45. For its punishment, Citibank…

Ibanga Isine More than a dozen naval patrol Hilux pickups barricaded adjoining streets, isolating the Otop Abasi police station in Calabar, the Cross Rivers State capital on May 30, 2017. As residents scampered for safety under a barrage of gunfire, one woman, her husband a police officer, crouched on the floor of their police barracks home and pushed her children under the bed. “It was a war. We could not run away because all the routes were blocked and bullets were flying everywhere,” the woman, agreeing to speak in return for anonymity, said. “My kids had just returned from the…

Seven Nigerian states close to the banks of River Niger and its floodplains are listed by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NIHSA over possible flooding. Consequently, Nigerians living in Anambra, Delta, Bayelsa, Kebbi, Niger, Kwara and Kogi states have been advised to immediately relocate to avoid the disaster. In a statement in Abuja signed by Mr Clement Nze, the agency’s Director of Engineering Hydrology, the ageny said the middle Niger portion of the Niger basin (Niger Republic) experienced high flows last week with the flood advancing into the Lower Niger (Nigeria). NIHSA noted that both Kainji and Jebba Dams were…