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The Nigerian Navy (NN) says the Service as a willing partner in ensuring the restoration of internal security will continue to support democracy by remaining loyal and dedicated to the service of her fatherland. The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Ibok-Ete Ibas, said this in Abuja on Saturday while speaking at the end of the Nigerian Navy Third Quarter Route March 2019. He said to achieve this feat, the Service would continue to focus on her core values of professionalism, team work and integrity to uphold the ethics and ethos of naval customs and tradition. Ibas, who was…

*VP adds: He led Zimbabwe and her people to freedom, majority rule Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe stood out as a leader because of his zeal, passion and selfless commitment to the emancipation of the people of Zimbabwe and the self realization of black people everywhere. This view was expressed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, on arrival in Harare last night to attend the funeral of the late African leader. “Nigeria most respectfully condoles with the Republic of Zimbabwe on the passing of her President, Robert Mugabe – who led the republic and her people to freedom and majority…

The National Vice-Chairman of the All Progressives Congress  (North-East), Mustapha Salihu, has said the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the  February 23 presidential poll, Atiku Abubakar, was deceived into  believing  that the  results of the election were transmitted  to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s server. He said the deception was the reason the former Vice-President  was defeated by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Election Petitions Tribunal on Wednesday. Salihu said, “Nobody uses server today.  You don’t have one big box that is called server anywhere. They (Atiku and the PDP) were ‘jobbed’. Some people told them there was …

Works and housing minister Babatunde Fashola has said that massive investment in human capital development was “very crucial”  to poverty reduction. “It is important to invest in the development of personnel; there are competing demands for government’s limited resources, but we shall continue to pay special attention to human capital development,” Fashola said on Friday. He spoke shortly after an inspection tour of the Electrical/Mechanical Training School, a training arm of the ministry located in Kuje, Abuja. “We need to improve on the standards; we must acknowledge the vision of those who started this training school. Our desire is to…

A burial for Zimbabwe’s former president, Robert Mugabe, will be held at the National Heroes Acre sometime in October, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Friday. It was previously agreed that there would be a symbolic burial on Sunday in the hilltop shrine in Harare, reserved for the country’s ruling elite, but family spokesman, Leo Mugabe, told reporters this plan had now been cancelled. The body will now go to Mugabe’s hometown of Zvimba on Sunday for traditional funeral rituals to be carried out before the burial. Mugabe will be buried in October after a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre has…

The Northeast chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal PEPT, saying the defeat of their son and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar shows that the president is ‘far better’ than their son. Addressing newsmen at the APC national secretariat after a closed door reconciliation meeting of all aggrieved members of the party before, during and after 2019 general elections, the North-east National Vice Chairman of the party, Comrade Mustapha Salihu, said the outcome of the judgment at the tribunal was…

Senator Dino Melaye has rejected the  appointment as the Director-General of the Kogi State Governorship Campaign Council by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Melaye who has been sacked by an election tribunal as senator stated this via his official Twitter account on Friday. He said that though the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan had told newsmen that he would be the DG of Kogi State Governorship Campaign Council for the party. READ: Buhari challenges APC leadership, governors on survival of APC “Let me state categorically that I have turned down the position of Director-General of the PDP Kogi State…

President Muhammadu Buhari has said the heavy schedule of the inaugural Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday held his attention for many hours, keeping him from following the court ruling that validated his victory at the poll. The president stated this when he received All Progressives Congress (APC) party leaders and members of the Progressives Governors’ Forum at the State House, Abuja, on Friday. Buhari said he was happy with the outcome of the judgment, urging the governors to join hands in strengthening the party for the future. He said: “By some coincidence, this judgment came on the same…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday challenged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the APC state governors on the need to institutionalise the party to guarantee its survival beyond the end of his tenure in 2023. The president gave the challenge when he received APC governors who were in the State House, Abuja, to congratulate him on the Wednesday Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal’s judgment which upheld his election. “What I will say to the chairman of the party and governors  in return for your congratulating me is to make sure you really institutionalise the party so that when…

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) says it is worried over what it described as undue delay in releasing the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) judgment record on the Feb. 23 election. The party raised the alarm in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday in Abuja. The election petition tribunal had on Wednesday dismissed the petition by PDP and Atiku Abubakar against the election and victory of President Muhammadu Buhari at the poll. The PDP had indicated its intention to head for the Supreme Court to seek redress. Ologbondiyan demanded the immediate release of the…