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AREWA Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) officials have warned All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader Asiwaju Tinubu to desist from attacking senate president Bukola Saraki and House of Representatives speaker Yakubu Dogara as well as other northern leaders.

NIGERIAN military commanders have urged residents of the southeast geo-political zone not to panic over the presence of the army in their region and the sound of gunshots as it is just part  of a regular training exercise.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari will arrive in the UK today for a 10-day visit which is being described as private by presidency officials although they have not confirmed that it is for medical reasons.

Every year, President Buhari takes his annual leave in the UK, where he comes for medical check-ups and for treatment on an undisclosed ailment. In August 2017, President Buhari spent 105 days in the UK recovering, during which period he stayed at Abuja House in London.

By Ayo Akinfe 

SOME policemen who worked overtime during Nigeria's last general elections are yet to be paid the allowances and bonuses promised to them so have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to come to their assistance.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is considering holding face-to-face crunch talks with senators Danjuma Goje and Ali Ndume in a bid to get them to stand down for Ahmad Lawan the All Progressives Congress' (APC) candidate for senate president.

ISIUKWUATO/Umunneochi Federal Constituency in Abia State member of the House of Representatives Hon Nkeiruka Onyejeocha has pleaded with her colleague Hon Femi Gbajabiamila to stand down for her in the quest to become the next speaker.

NIGERIA'S labour and employment minister Dr Chris Ngige has said he remains unperturbed with the practice of locally-trained medical doctors rushing abroad to seek employment because they can be replaced with the surplus available.

CRYSTAL Palace have stepped up plans to sign Nigerian-born winger Ademola Lookman from English Premier League rivals Everton this summer as a replacement for Ivorian star Wilfred Zaha who they are resigned to losing.

By Ayo Akinfe

(1) Nigerians are fond of blaming all their problems on poor leadership but for me, that is just a kop out. It is an intellectually lazy way of trying to explain a wider malaise that afflicts the world’s largest and most prosperous black nation. A handful of bad leaders cannot misrule 180m people for 60 years without their consent and full acquiescence