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To further cushion the effect on the removal of fuel subsidy, President Bola Tinubu, on Sunday, promised that the distribution of cash palliatives will commence this month, October. President Tinubu stated this in his address to mark Nigeria’s 63rd Independence anniversary delivered in Abuja. Ripples Nigeria reports that Tinubu had announced removal of fuel subsidy payment on May 29th, 2023 …

The African Union’s (AU) Peace and Security Council has suspended Gabon with immediate effect following the coup that ousted President Ali Bongo. The suspension of Gabon by the 55-member bloc means the Central African nation will be barred from participating in all African Union activities, organs and institutions until restoration of constitutional order in the country. In a statement posted …

World Championships silver medalist, Ese Brume, has landed in China in search of Diamond League points. Brume, a three-time World Athletics Championships (indoors and outdoor) medalist, is seeking to become the second Nigerian to compete in the final of the Diamond League. She was confirmed for the Xiamen, China meeting, this Saturday (September 2, 2023). Brume’s coach, Kayode Yahaya, who …

]The Defence Headquarters claimed on Thursday that troops in the various theatres of operations killed 113 suspected terrorists and arrested 300 others across the country in one week. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, stated this while briefing journalists on the operations of the armed forces in Abuja. He said the troops also arrested 25 suspected oil thieves, …

Luis Manuel Diaz, the father of Liverpool forward, Luis Diaz, has been released by kidnappers. Diaz spent 12 days in captivity after being kidnapped by the guerrilla group National Liberation Army, also known as the ELN, at a petrol station in Colombia near the border with Venezuela on Saturday, October 28. The player’s mother was also kidnapped in the incident …

The naira seems not to be responding to the antidote administered to it by the Federal Government as the Nigerian currency continued its slump on Thursday against the American Dollar at both the parallel and official windows. While the Nigerian currency traded at about N1150/$1 on Thursday as against the N1130-1140/$1 it traded on Wednesday at the Bureaux De Change …

Separatist groups made up of Tuareg rebels have laid claims to killing over 98 Malian soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks witnessed in the country in recent months. In statements released by the separatists on Sunday by its propaganda arm, the Permanent Strategic Framework dominated by the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), the rebels said they also wounded dozens …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State on Thursday suspended the ex-Secretary to the State Government, Moshood Adeoti, and 25 other persons for alleged anti-party activities in the state. This came just 24 hours after the party expelled 84 members for the same reason. All the suspended members are loyalists of the former minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola. Aregbesola …

The Nigeria Police Force has deployed 25,565 operatives and 250 vehicles to Imo for Saturday’s governorship election in the state. The Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the governorship election in the state, Mr. Frank Mba, disclosed this while briefing journalists on the preparedness of the police for the election. Mba said the assets would increase the police capacity …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Dear Compatriots, It is my unique honour to address you on this day, the 63rd anniversary of our nation’s independence, both as the President of our dear country and, simply, as a fellow Nigerian. On this solemn yet hopeful day, let us commend our founding fathers and mothers. Without them, there would be no modern Nigeria. …