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Bayo Oluwasanmi Bayo Oluwasanmi   I have been following Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidency since 2015. Based on his extensive overseas trips from 2015 to 2018, I penned a piece “Buhari: The Absentee President” published by SaharaReporters on May 23, 2019. The article summarised in eloquent details, Buhari’s overseas junkets year by …

  Yet to be identified gunmen have attacked the Ikirike Police Station of Enugu Command of the Nigerian Police Force. Eyewitnesses said the hoodlums came to the station under the guise of reporting a case and immediately launched an attack on the station, according to a report by PUNCH. It …

Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Major Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, has charged troops combating Boko Haram in the North-East to finish off the insurgents and return to the barracks.  Adeniyi stated this during a visit to Gubio, a town attacked by the terrorists in Borno State a few days ago.  The …

SaharaReporters Media   A man named Mustapha Kabiru has allegedly raped his brother’s five-year-old daughter to teach him a lesson. The victim, Fatimah Ayuba, was said to have been rushed to the Federal Medical Center Yola, Adamawa State, for medical attention following profuse bleeding from her vagina as a result …

Senator Shehu Sani ( middle) addressing journalists at the programme in Abuja Senator Shehu Sani ( middle) addressing journalists at the programme in Abuja SaharaReporters Media   Former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Shehu Sani, has described the incessant clampdown on opposition by the Nigerian …

  A group, African Renaissance Organisation, has sent a petition to the United States Department of State over the continued detention of rights activist, Omoyele Sowore. Sowore was arrested on August 3, 2019 by operatives of the Department of State Services for urging Nigerians to pour out to the streets …

  In the Lagos State Judiciary, court congestion and unending adjournments have continually made justice seekers suffer in a stalesystem, reports Funke Busari Court! The voice of the male registrar pealed through the SexualViolence Court to announce the arrival of Her Lordship, Justice SybilNwaka on June 25, 2019. Time was …

  Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, has said members of the group outside of Nigeria will hunt and hound south-east governors when they visit foreign countries, according to a report by PUNCH. He said, “We shall continue to hunt and hound them whenever they leave the …

  The President Muhammadu Buhari regime says it is nothing new that the newly-inaugurated ministers should see the Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, if they want to schedule a meeting with their principal, pointing out that Kyari advises Buhari on “any and all matters”. This was contained in a statement …

Obadiah Mailafia Obadiah Mailafia   Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has described Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as naïve for believing northern politicians will relinquish power to him by 2023. Mailafia, who was also a candidate of the …