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President Muhammadu Buhari says he looks forward to leaving office as president. According to a statement by Femi Adesina, presidential spokesperson, Buhari spoke on Thursday during a courtesy visit to the palace of Sidi Bage Muhammad I, Emir of Lafia, in Nasarawa state. While promising not to stay beyond his two-term tenure […]

On Thursday, the world was roused to the shocking reverberation of bombs dropping on cities in Ukraine as Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, finally sounded the long-touted invasion of the country. At least 40 people are said to have died as Russian bombs continue to cascade down the sky of Kyiv, Dnipro and other […]

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, says persons who have resided in Lagos for 20 years should be given “free pass to heaven” for their experience with traffic congestion. El-Rufai spoke on Thursday during a media briefing organised by the presidential communications team in Abuja. Responding to a question on why he adopted […]

The house of representatives has resolved to ensure the immediate evacuation of Nigerians, including students, from Ukraine.  At the plenary session on Thursday, the lower legislative chamber drafted Ado Doguwa, majority leader of the house, and Yusuf Buba, chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs, to leave for Ukraine on Friday to […]

Geoffrey Onyeama, minister of foreign affairs, says the federal government is working on arranging a special flight to evacuate Nigerians currently in Ukraine — once airports reopen. Earlier on Thursday, there were reports of explosions around Kharkiv — a city with a population of roughly 1.4 million near the eastern border and approximately […]

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, says the Nigerian military was reluctant to bomb bandits because of concerns about facing the International Criminal Court (ICC). On November 25, 2021, a federal high court in Abuja declared the activities of all bandit groups in the country as acts of terrorism. Prior to the declaration, many […]

Qatar Airways says it has temporarily suspended all flights to Ukraine in the wake of conflict with Russia. The airline disclosed this in a tweet on Thursday. It, however, added that it is monitoring the situation of the war while directing affected passages to check for other available options suggested to them. […]

Oleksii Arestovich, adviser to Ukraine’s president, says about 40 people have been killed so far in the Russian attack on the country. The adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday many people have been wounded, according to Fox35. The president had said Ukraine was ready to hand weapons to all those […]

The court of appeal in Abuja has affirmed the conviction of Farouk Lawan, former lawmaker, over the $3 million bribery charges preferred against him by the federal government. Lawan was the chairman of the house of representatives ad hoc committee probing the multi-billion naira petrol subsidy fraud in 2012. He was accused […]

Timipre Sylva, minister of state for petroleum resources, says the increase in prices of global crude oil is not good for the country. Speaking on the rising crude oil prices in an interview with Bloomberg Television, Sylva said that Nigeria’s comfort zone in terms of oil prices was between $70 and $80 per […]