President Muhammadu Buhari has announced the appointment of Maj. Gen. Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. This was disclosed in a statement on Thursday by the Acting Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu. Until his appointment, Yahaya was the Theatre Commander of the Counter terrorism, Counter Insurgency in the North East,…
The Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has sacked 19 political appointees including Mr. Ben Kure, his Political Adviser. A Government House issued on Wednesday in Kaduna said the 19 disengaged appointees are the first phase of public servants disengaged in continuation of “rightsizing” of the state government workforce. Besides Kure other top aides affected…
The President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Ayokunle, says there cannot be one Nigeria without justice, fair play and mutual respect among the various ethnic groups in the country. Speaking at a lecture organised to mark the 58th birthday of Taiwo Adelakun, the Presiding Bishop of Victory International Church Worldwide, on Wednesday…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has said that too much of talks on the deteriorating security with action will not address the problem. The sultan spoke on Wednesday at the Special Summit on National Security organised by the House of Representatives in Abuja. He said things are getting bad, stressing that urgent…
The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao has constituted a committee of serving and retired senior officers of the Nigerian Airforce (NAF) to conduct a safety audit of all its operational and engineering units. This was disclosed in a statement on Tuesday by the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information…
The Kaduna state government has reacted to a list trending on the social media, purported to be names of “family and friends”, of Governor Nasir El-Rufai, who were allotted plots of land in choice locations in Kaduna by the government. According to a report by Peoples Gazette, an online newspaper, those who benefited from the…
