By Desmond Ukandu (Group Politics Editor)

Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari, was moved to tears on Thursday, as he lamented, in his Independence anniversary speech, how the nation was unscrupulously brought to near ruins by the previous administrations between 1999 and 2015, before his administration came on board for a rescue mission.

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By Suzan Okenwa (Senate Correspondent, NASS)

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has stressed the need to deepen the nation’s democracy through quality elections in order to deliver better leadership that would salvage the nation from her present woes and launch her on the path of growth and prosperity.

By Musa Ubandawaki (Sokoto State Correspondent)

The Development Research and Projects Center (DRPC), an NGO, has presented N300,000 to Government Technical Collage Farfaru in Sokoto state as support to prepare candidates for the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) examinations.

By Musa Ubandawaki (Sokoto State Correspondent)

The Sokoto state government has captured over 300,000 vulnerable people for the federal government's conditional cash transfer.

By Mohammed Munirat Nasir (Zamfara State Correspondent)

Zamfara state government has constituted a Commission of Inquiry to investigate former governor Abdul'Aziz Yari Abubakar administration over missing N107 billion.

By Desmond Ukandu (Group Politics Editor)

The Ebonyi State Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Barrister Uchenna Orji, on Thursday, congratulated the governor, Engr. Dave Umahi and the First Lady of the state, Chief (Mrs) Rachel Ogonna Umahi, on the occasion of Nigeria's 60th Independence anniversary and on the numerous transformational achievements by the governor which has changed the face of Ebonyi.

By Desmond Ukandu (Group Politics Editor)

The Ebonyi State Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Barrister Uchenna Orji, has denied news reports making rounds that he had threatened to arrest Mr Nelson Nwaefuru, said to be a practicing Journalist and Publisher of Fastlink Newspaper based in Ebonyi State over alleged extortion.

By Mahmoud Dogara (Bauchi State Correspondent)

The Bauchi State Government has decried the influx of illegal migrants into the state, saying that the security strength of the state is already threatened.

By Chinwendu Agoha (Governance Reporter)

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has applauded the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) for showing understanding with the President Muhammadu Buhari administration by calling off their planned strike action to protest increases in electricity tariffs and removal of subsidy on petroleum products.

By Mahmoud Dogara (Bauchi State Correspondent)

The West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP,) has launched a special project on teaching curriculum for the Prevention of Violent Extremism(PVE) in the Sahel and Nigeria towards institutionalizing nonviolence and peace education in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

By Mahmoud Dogara (Bauchi State Correspondent)

About 30 youths selected in five states from the North to boost agriculture under the pilot phase of a project known as Empowering African Youths in Nigeria, has commenced training by a Non-governmental Organization called Office Chérifien des Phosphates, (OCP) in partnership with the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU).

By Mahmoud Dogara (Bauchi State Correspondent)

No fewer than five armed robbery syndicate that specializes in terrorising and robbing residents of the metropolis has been paraded by the Bauchi State Police Command.