The NGF chair says governors across the federation will rather vote for Mr Buhari even if they belong to opposition political parties The post Why 36 Governors will work for Buhari`s re-election – NGF Chairman appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

The governor acts on a white paper that indicted the officials. The post Fayemi sacks Ekiti university VC, others indicted by panel appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

The newly posted and redeployed senior officers are expected to take over their new offices not later than January 25. The post Major shake up in Nigeria Air Force, 72 senior officers redeployed appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

Some sick residents of Delta State who visited the Warri Central Hospital, located on Warri/Sapele Road, Warri, have lamented the state of facilities in the hospital. In a video recording of their experience, which they shared with SaharaReporters, They were seen lamenting the absence of government at the hospital, the children clinic being the worst hit. Some of the patients highlighted the number-one challenge of the hospital as lack of power supply. Speaking on the appalling situation, one of them, Lucky Iyoghosa, who was visiting the hospital to see a friend’s daughter on admission, described the state of the hospital as "absurd" and "nonsense. “This...

Some months ago, I had to present a paper on the case for the private sector in Bioscience Research and Development in Nigeria. Some of my discoveries shocked me and many further cemented in my heart the truth that Nigeria has a very long way to go.  The Nigerian government sponsors over 40 research institutes all over the country yet unsurprisingly obtains very few or no groundbreaking results in solving the problems faced in the Bioscience fields. We have laboratories which do not work, staff who lack up-to-date knowledge and facilities near extinct and in some cases, especially universities, facilities quite...

Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been exonerated from a statement naming 30 corrupt people working for President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Gbenga Daniel, Director-General of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation and Deputy Chairman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council (South), the statement was the personal opinion of Phrank Shaibu, Atiku’s Special Assistant on Public Communications — not that of Atiku himself. Speaking with journalists at the Abuja airport shortly before departing for a PDP presidential campaign rally in Owerri on Tuesday, Daniel described Atiku as “a statesman who is not in the...

Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday evening met behind closed doors with Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Both Osinbajo and Amosun are from Ogun State. The state is among those where the ruling All Progressives Congress is experiencing rancorous primaries. Details later…

US First Lady Melania Trump toured a primary school in Malawi on Thursday on the second leg of her solo tour of Africa as her husband poured praise on her work from back home. A small handful of protesters held signs along roads in the capital Lilongwe, with one criticising President Trump’s reported use of […]

Alexander Zverev smashed his racquet in frustration after he was the victim of a surprise three-set defeat to world number 61 Malek Jaziri at the China Open on Thursday. With his coach Ivan Lendl looking on stony-faced, the German prodigy exited in the last 16 in Beijing, the indefatigable Tunisian Jaziri winning 7-6 (7/4), 2-6, […]