Tinubu Leads Dignitaries as Buhari is Laid to Rest with Full Military Honours

on Tuesday, in a solemn ceremony marked by full military honours and attended by high-profile dignitaries from within and outside Nigeria. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu led the federal delegation that paid final respects to his predecessor, who passed away on Sunday, 13 July 2025, in a London hospital. President Tinubu arrived in Katsina from Abuja at exactly 1:42 p.m. and inspected a guard of honour at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport, shortly before the...

Visa Policy: FG Reaffirms Commitment To Strengthening Diplomatic Relations With U.S, UAE

…Assures Nigerians Concerns Raised Are Being Addressed The Federal Government has reaffirmed commitment to maintaining and strengthening the longstanding and cordial diplomatic relations with the Governments of the United States of America and the United Arab Emirates. In a press statement on Tuesday signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, the presidency noted that the recent changes in visa issuance policies affecting Nigerian citizens by these two countries have...

Buhari’s Burial: Security Tightens in Daura, Katsina State

Ahead of the burial of ex-president Muhammadu Buhari in Daura, Katsina State, security has been beefed up at the residence of the late president ahead of his burial rites on Tuesday. Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, said the arrival of leaders from three countries is expected, in addition to President Bola Tinubu, who has already arrived in Katsina to receive the body from London. As early as 8:00 am, security operatives barricaded all entry points...

Gov Fintiri Inaugurates Peace, Conflict Resolution and Social Integration Commission

In its effort to tackle conflict, particularly between farmers and herders, Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has inaugurated the Adamawa State Peace, Conflict Resolution, and Social Integration Commission. Governor Fintiri, while inaugurating the commission at Government House, Yola, reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to fostering unity, justice, and long-lasting peace across the state. He described the establishment of the commission as a proactive step towards addressing the root causes of communal conflict, religious intolerance, political...

Kwara Govt Targets Unlawful Conversion Of Residential Quarters For Commercial Purposes

Owners of residential quarters that have converted their dwellings for commercial use in Ilorin, the state capital have been issued with quit notice to revert their plans. The General Manager, Town Planning Authority of the Kwara State Geographic Information Service, AbdulAkeem Abdulsalam, who disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Ilorin, said the action is in line with the nationwide urban renewal project being implemented by the Federal Government across the states of the...

Adetona’s Legacies Of Service, Dedication, Sacrifice Remain Indelible – Gov Oyebanji

The Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji, has mourned the demise of the Awujale of Ijebuland, HRM Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, stating that his legacies of service, dedication, sacrifice, and humility remain indelible. The Governor, in a statement on Monday by his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Yinka Oyebode, said the late Oba Adetona’s legacies would continue to remain indelible. According to the Governor, the late Awujale oozed royalty, class, colour, dignity, and honour in...

Oba Adetona Was A Formidable Leader, Monarch, Bode George Mourns

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George has paid tribute to Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, stating that  he was a  formidable leader and monarch The Atona Oodua of Yorubaland in a tribute he signed on Monday said, “I was in Form 1 at Ijebu-Ode Grammar School, Ijebu-Ode in 1960 when the 26-year-old Prince returned to Nigeria to be crowned as the Awujale of Ijebuland. “With my classmates,...

Tributes Pour in for Buhari from AU, ECOWAS, US, World Leaders

World leaders, international organisations, and prominent personalities have paid glowing tributes to Nigeria’s former President, Muhammadu Buhari, who passed away at the age of 82. The late President, who served as Nigeria’s leader both as a military head of state and a democratically elected president, is remembered as a man of discipline, integrity, and firm belief in national unity and regional cooperation. In a statement issued by ECOWAS, the Commission’s President, Dr Omar Touray, described...

FG Declares Tuesday Public Holiday as Buhari’s Burial Holds

ADC Declares 3-Day Mourning APC Shuts Secretariat The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, 15th July 2025, as a public holiday in honour of Nigeria’s former President, Muhammadu Buhari, who died on Sunday at the age of 82. This is in continuation of the seven-day national mourning earlier declared by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to pay tribute to the late leader who served Nigeria both as a military head of state and a democratically elected president....

Court Stops Rivers Administrator from Swearing In New Service Commission Members

A Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has stopped the planned inauguration of newly appointed members of the Rivers State Civil Service Commission by the Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), pending the outcome of a legal dispute over the removal of the previous occupants of the office. The restraining order was issued on Monday, July 14, by Justice Frank Onyiri following an application brought before the court by the ousted commission members....

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