•Sanusi and Jonathan Former President Goodluck Jonathan and Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, were, yesterday, seen together publicly for the first time in 10 years. In 2014, Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), was suspended by Jonathan after he raised an alarm that $49.8 billion was missing under […]...
•General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) The National Peace Committee (NPC) with a former head of state, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) as chairman and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah as convener has said it would convene a national stakeholders meeting in Abuja as part of measures to tackle the multiple challenges facing the country. This is containe...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has begun moves to review the Abuja Master Plan, 48 years after it was created. Abuja was adopted as Nigeria’s new Federal Capital Territory in 1976, reports Daily Trust. The revelation was made yesterday when the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, played host to the Ambassador of Japan to Nigeria, [...
•Petrol tanker explodes Three persons were injured after a tanker fully loaded with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and a Toyota Sienna space bus collided at Imani roundabout in Maitama, Abuja last night. The injured victims, Idris Mohammed, Suleiman Gimba and Adamu Isiayku, have been rushed to Maitama district hospital for medical attention. The F...
•Abuja The Nigerian Geological Survey Agency, NGSA, has allayed fears over earth tremors experienced in the Federal Capital Territory urging residents not to panic. A statement by the Director-General of the agency, Professor Olusegun Ige disclosed that NGSA monitored the tremors and found them to be low and did not pose any threat to the [&he...
The federal government’s Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (P-CNGi) is targeting the creation of about 100,000 jobs from an estimated one million conversion of vehicles from petrol to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). This was just as the initiative commenced conversion of vehicles into autogas across the country following the distrib...
•Tinunu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived Abuja last night after his engagements in the People’s Republic of China and a brief stop over in the United Kingdom (UK). President Tinubu, who arrived the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International, Abuja, at about 10:40pm was received on arrival by senior members of the administration, ...
•Protest in Abuja Nigerians have taken to the streets of Abuja today protesting the lingering fuel scarcity bedevilling the country. The protesters also demand the immediate dismissal of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, Mele Kyari, over the lingering fuel scarcity bedevilling the country, repo...
•Protesters The trial of #EndBadGovernance protesters will begin in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna and Borno today, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Intelligence, Dasuki Galadanchi, has disclosed. The DIG disclosed this at the just-ended Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), reports Daily Trust. He said those to be charg...
•Presidential jet Landowners of Nuwalege, Abuja ejected by the federal government, have called on the government for compensation. More than 200 families who resided in Nuwalege, a rural community along the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Road in Abuja, have been reportedly rendered homeless, following the demolition of their homes to acc...

