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Former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida, has expressed confidence that Nigeria would soon overcome its security challenges. Babangida, who spoke with newsmen Tuesday in Minna, expressed optimism that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would tackle and end the skirmishes in some parts of the country “very soon”. “What is required now is for Nigerians to rally round the President to enable him provide adequate security and good leadership. “The people’s support will help the President to succeed; he needs everyone’s cooperation to trudge on to success,” he said. He stressed the need for Nigerians to remain peaceful and pray for peace to…

The Presidency said President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Saudi Arabia for Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting was in the national interest. Buhari’s attendance of the meeting has generated criticisms from many Nigerians who argued that the country had no business attending the meeting, Nigeria being a secular state. But Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said in a statement that the President acted in “the overall national interest”, and “preferred not to worry about the storms” generated by his critics. The statement read: ”On Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari delivered the address of…

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday pleaded with political leaders and his supporters to stop complaining about his government to avoid making it unpopular. Buhari, however, jokingly described residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, as necessary evil for voting the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last election He assured the FCT residents that his administration would do everything possible to protect them, despite the fact that they voted against him. Speaking while receiving residents of the FCT that paid him Sallah homage at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, President Buhari said he would continue to protect the seat of power because…

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, Monday slated June 7 to hear a suit seeking to disqualify Femi Gbajabiamila from vying to become speaker of the House of Representatives in the 9th National Assembly. Justice Inyang Ekwo directed that copies of the legal processes should be served on the embattled lawmaker to enable him to respond to issues that were raised against him. The court was in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/539/2019, urged to declare that Hon. Gbajabiamila who was cited as the 1st Defendant, “is not fit and proper to be elected as a Member of the House…

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, Monday, commenced his second five-tenure tenure, following his re-appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari. CBN sources said that Mr. Emefiele formally assumed duty after subscribing to the relevant Oath of Office administered by the CBN Secretary and Director, Corporate Secretariat Department, Mrs. Alice Karau, at the headquarters of the apex bank. Mr. Emefiele, who was said to have been received into the Bank by the four Deputy Governors, was visibly elated by the turnout of excited staff that thronged the venue of the oath-taking ceremony, chanting his name. In his…

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has said Nigeria was ready for 5G network. Executive Director of the commission, Prof. Umar Dambatta, who stated this at an interactive session with journalists in Abuja Monday, said with the enlisting of leading mobile operator into the Stock Exchange, other operators, including Bharti Airtel, Globacom and 9Mobile were getting set to join the fray. He said the NCC, apart from holding a stakeholders’ forum to come up with a roadmap on 5G, the commission had opened consultations on spectrum for drones and was proactively leading discussions on the deployment of new technologies. He said:…

As the Federal Government strives to eliminate poverty across the nation, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, NESG, has harped on the need to scale-up the National Social Investment Programmes, NSIP, targets set in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP. The group also said the NSIP would never be enough without the concurrent intervention of broad-based sustainable growth focused on creating economic and job opportunities for citizenry. The NSIPs were initiated by the government in its efforts to address the challenges around our human capital development, with a view to reducing poverty and creating wealth in order to tackle socio-economic…

Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has said he was ready to return to Nigeria to face the charge against him. In an interview with online Newspaper, Premium Times, Adoke said he would to return to Nigeria “between July and September.” Adoke dismissed insinuations that he left the country to avoid prosecution, saying his stay abroad had little to do with the Malabu case. The former AGF, who left Nigeria in 2015, was accused by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of enriching himself from the $1 billion Malabu oil deal, but he denied…

By Akanimo Sampson Schlumberger, one of the leading oil services companies, has introduced the GAIA, a digital exploration platform at the 81st EAGE Conference & Exhibition. The GAIA platform enables exploration teams to rapidly discover and access basin-scale data and manage their exploration opportunities. The GAIA platform uses the power of the DELFI Exploration & Production cognitive environment to access data available from Schlumberger and other E&P industry data providers. The GAIA platform provides a personalised user experience, enabling the explorationist to discover, visualise and interact with all the available data in a region or basin without compromising resolution and…

Suspected bandits reportedly on Sunday evening, opened fire on the motorcade of Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, who was on his way to condole with victims of a previous attack on a community in Gusau local government area. This came as bandits again attacked Batsari Alhaji village in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State, killing two persons, barely 24 hours after the visist of wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, to the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camp in the area. Eyewitnesses said the governor’s convoy came under attack while he was enroute Lilo community to sympathise with victims…