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President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is now in charge of the country. The President made this known shortly before he departed Abuja for a routine medical check-up in London, the United Kingdom. Recall his spokesman, Femi Adesina, had on March 1, said from Kenya, the president would proceed to London for ”routine medical checks that ...

If indications from two separate but related events that were held last December are anything to go by, then one of Nigeria’s most vulnerable groups may be on the verge of experiencing better times. The events, hosted in two separate states/regions and separated by a 20-day interval, held at a time when self-splurging by many young Nigerians was at octane ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may likely extend its nationwide strike until April. Recall, newsmaxng reported that ASUU embarked on the strike on February 14th to press home their demands from the federal government. However, several engagements between the union and representatives of the government have ended in deadlock. According to a tweet on the official Twitter handle of ...

In a bid to recover unremitted sum of N75mllion collected as rent, a limited liability company GORI Nigeria Limited has dragged the Chairman of Jaiz bank Plc Alhaji (DR) Adamu Umaru Mutallab before a Lagos high court. In a statement of claim accompanied by statement witness on oath of the executive assistant of Gori company Evenlyn Ayika, filed before a ...

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that when elected as president of Nigeria in 2023, he will rule for eight years.   Tinubu, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the APC, stated that after he might have ruled for two terms, he will hand over to a smart politician with the ...

Gupshup, a global leader in conversational engagement, unveiled a new brand identity at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.   The new brand identity consists of new logo colors, revised brand look-and-feel, an updated website and a new tagline: “One-on-one. With everyone”. These changes reinforce Gupshup’s vision of transforming the future of business-to-customer conversations and commerce through conversational engagement.   ...

Nigerians who escaped Russia’s ongoing military offensive in Ukraine arrived in Abuja, the nation’s capital, on Friday, narrating how they escaped the intense bombings and missiles fired by Russia’s military forces, The PUNCH reported. The war, which has led to the death of hundreds of civilians and troops, leaving thousands injured and many more displaced, has seen millions of foreign ...

Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s president on Friday, returned to the country from Kenya instead of proceeding to London for medical checks as originally scheduled. Bashir Ahmad, the president’s personal aide wrote on Friday that he had returned to Nigeria from Kenya where he had gone to attend the 50th Anniversary of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, sending tongues wagging. ...

The first batch of Nigerians stranded in Ukraine have arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.   Abike Dabiri, chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NIDCOM, who confirmed this in a tweet, said they arrived from Romania on Friday morning.   She said , “First batch of Nigerians from #Ukraine arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja from Romania at ...

The decision of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to file an eight-count criminal charge against Abba Kyari, the suspended deputy commissioner of police, may halt his planned extradition to the United States where he is wanted on alleged links with cyber criminal, Ramon Abbas, alias Hushpuppi.   The NDLEA had filed an eight-count charge against Kyari and six others ...