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President Muhammadu Buhari is meeting with the Prime Minister of the Libyan Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, currently in the State House, Abuja. The Libyan leader arrived the forecourt of the Presidential Villa at exactly 10 am and was received by President Buhari with cabinet members including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffery Onyeama in attendance. Both leaders are set to have bilateral talks that will Favour both countries.

• Asaba Declaration questionable offered no solutions• Promises to move against killer herdsmen• Scores killed in Benue, Plateau midnight raid President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, expressed a strong resolve to address the conflicts of herders and farmers permanently, but not without chiding the Southern Governors’ Forum for their recent ban on open grazing, which he described as an act of questionable legality. The president further accused the governors of politicking with serious security issues and an attempt at a show of power. The presidency’s position was contained in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity,…

• ‘Growing foreign reserves to $40b may douse FX tension, inflation’• Nigeria borrowing to fund salaries, trips• About 83 per cent revenue goes into debt service• Onyekpere calls for cancellation of revenue collection percentage to FIRS, Customs Stakeholders are unsettled over the Federal Government’s plan to borrow a fresh  $6.18 billion (N2.343 trillion) amid rising debt profile, which may push the country’s debt to about N36 trillion, with as much as over N25 trillion of the sum contracted in the last six years of the current administration. Coming at a time when President Muhammadu Buhari is canvassing for debt relief for…

It was not difficult to know that the Asaniyis have lost a gem and life support.The gloomy faces and the sober mood that pervaded their country home at Iyanuoluwa Estate, New Airport, Alakia, Ibadan say it all that the death of Flt. Lt. Taiwo Olufemi Asaniyi, the pilot who flew the crashed military aircraft last Friday, has left the family shattered.Asaniyi was one of the pilots of the ill-fated Beechcraft 350 aircraft, which crashed near the Kaduna International Airport last Friday.According to one of the sympathisers, who thronged the family house, it was one death that no one will not…

• Saudi monarch, Anglican Church mourn COAS, 10 others President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented the loss of military officers, especially at a time the country is facing a serious security crisis, stating that last Friday’s air crash had worsened the nation’s predicament. Receiving yesterday at the State House, Abuja, a delegation from the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) that were on a condolence visit over the death of Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 others, the Nigerian leader resolved to work harder in tackling the country’s woes. He told the team that included NGF Chairman, Governor Kayode Fayemi…

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has expressed the optimism that the protracted strike by the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) will be called off soon. The News Agency of Nigeria NAN reports that JUSUN had, on April 6, embarked on an indefinite strike to press home its demand for implementation of full financial autonomy for the judiciary. In a statement signed by its President, Mr Olumide Akpata, the NBA said that recent developments indicated that the strike would soon end. It noted that the strike had taken its toll on NBA members and urged them to remain hopeful. “The…

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it has begun operation raid on recalcitrant road traffic offenders in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The FRSC Sector Commander, Mr Samuel Ochi, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Monday in Abuja. Ochi said that the operation RAID was to ensure that all offenders committing critical traffic offences such as overloading, driving against traffic, beating of traffic light, among others, were brought to book. He explained that recalcitrant offenders were those that have been been arrested for the same offences several times but were not willing…

• Canvasses true federalism, more power and resources to states• Tinubu denies endorsing any candidate for Lagos council elections Southwest leaders in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have endorsed the position of the 17 Southern governors taken at their May 11, 2021 summit in Asaba, Delta State, especially on ranching and ban of open grazing in the entire Southern states. The leaders also rejected calls for disintegration of Nigeria, saying that the country needs religious and ethnic unity to progress. This is coming amid calls for the creation of a Yoruba nation in the Southwestern part of the country.…

· BDC operators get dollar at N393/$ Currency speculators, who have in the past week engaged in an aggressive ‘stocking’ of the dollar at a premium in expectation of a near-future rise in the exchange rate, may be facing heightened risks as the value of the greenback against the naira could pullback in the coming days. Though the dollar maintained a marginal edge against the local currency, market analysts said the pressure could ease as players begin to re-evaluate the speculation on exchange convergence, which President of the Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), Dr. Aminu Gwadabe,…

• Beechcraft King350 aircraft record second crash in three months• Check ‘inclement weather’ trend, Ojikutu warns• Stakeholders insist on thorough probe, public disclosure of findings, better regulatory oversight• Afenifere calls on military to check its fold, says three crashes in four months inexcusable• Nigerians expressing concern understandable, says Airforce spokesman Deadly plane crashes in military operations and series of mishaps in its civil operations have raised fresh concerns over safety of the airspace in general. Aviation stakeholders said though the development was a blight on Nigeria’s safety record in global aviation, the sequence of occurrences raises a “red flag” to…