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Omololu Ogunmade President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday congratulated the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Professor Itsejuwa Sagay, on his 80th birthday which comes up on Sunday. The president, according to a statement by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, described Sagay as a foremost scholar, teacher, legal luminary, author, and an anti-corruption crusader. Adesina said the president rejoiced with the Sagay family, the academia, legal profession, and all friends and his associates, saying his integrity and commitment to transparency mark him out as a Nigerian of sterling ...

Iyobosa Uwugiaren, Omololu Ogunmade, Kigsley Iweze and Udora Orizu in Abuja, Francis Sardauna in Katsina President Muhammadu Buhari was upbeat yesterday when he met with the returnee Kankara boys at the Government House, Katsina, and reiterated his determination to provide security for all in Nigeria. The schoolboys were abducted when gunmen stormed their school, Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, on December 11. The president, who spoke in Hausa, was excted by the rescue of the schoolboys within six days and congratulated the children for their safe return. He stres...

•NEC worried about health facilities being overwhelmed By Omololu Ogunmade, Onyebuchi Ezigbo, Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja, Nume Ekeghe and Dike Onwuamaeze in Lagos Members of the organised private sector (OPS) and some economic analysts yesterday warned against a fresh lockdown of the economy as part of curbs to tackle the uptick in COVID-19 cases, which heralded the onset of a second wave of the pandemic. The incidence reached a new high yesterday with data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NDDC) showing a new high of 1,145 new cases of COVID-19 that beat Wednesday’s record of...

*Masari calls for upgrade of security architecture Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Katsina advised the freed students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, to remain focused in the pursuit and acquisition of good education despite their ill-fated experience. The president who tasked the pupils not to be distracted by the misfortune of their kidnapping, said the reward of knowledge acquisition is non-negotiable. The president, according to a statement by presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, met with the 344 freed boys at the Banquet Hall of Katsi...

By Omololu Ogunmade Presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, Friday apologised to Nigerians for providing misleading information on the number of boys kidnapped in Government Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State last weekend. 334 schoolboys kidnapped by bandits in the school premises were freed on Thursday and were received by Governor Aminu Masari on Friday. Shehu who had, following the breaking of the news of the abduction last weekend, announced that only 10 boys were kidnapped, explained that the figure was not his own creation but given to him “by persons that should ideally know...