Year: 2016
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Breaking: MPs back government’s Brexit timetable
The British Member of Parliaments, MPs have voted to back the government’s plan to start formal talks on Brexit by…
Amosun has no hand in plan to demolish Senator Adeola’s house-Soyinka
Senior Special Assistant (Media) to the Ogun State Government, Adejuwon Soyinka has debunked claims that Governor Ibikunle Amosun was behind…
LIRS issues 16-day ultimatum to taxpayers to pay their taxes
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has issued 16-day ultimatum to all taxpayers in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria to…
Rivers Rerun: Police restrict movements
The Rivers State Police Command has announced restriction of man and vehicular movements ahead of the forthcoming legislative re-run elections…
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Ogun govt marks Senator Adeola’s house for demolition
The politics of 2019 has begun to rear up in Ogun State as the State Government has marked the Ilaro…
Pictures: Buhari swears in INEC commissioners
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday swore in new commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after the weekly National…
House of Reps receives Dame Jonathan’s petition against EFCC
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, received a petition from the former First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, against the Economic…
$15.5m saga: Court rules in favour of Patience Jonathan
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today granted leave to wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, to amend…
Navy hands over suspected oil thieves to NSCDC
The Nigerian Navy on Wednesday handed over six suspected oil thieves with 3,000 liters of Automotive Gas Oil and three…
3 suspected armed robbers arrested in Gombe
The Police in Gombe State says it has arrested a group of suspected armed robbers terrorizing the people of Gombe…
World Bank tasks Nigeria on malnutrition
Mr Luc Laviolette, Programme Leader, Human Development, World Bank, said one-third (about 33 percent) of children in Nigeria under five…
NUPENG plans warning strike over workers’ welfare
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) said on Wednesday that it would embark on a three-day…
Djokovic splits with coach
Tennis world number two Novak Djokovic has split with his coach, Boris Becker, three years after adding the German multiple…
SERAP wants 23 senior varsity staff reinstated
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to Mallam Adamu Adamu Minister of Education, to reinstate…
LASU approves 50% rebate for staff undergoing study
The Governing Council, Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has approved 50 percent rebate on all fees payable for its staff…
WAEC Registrar seeks national honours for examiners
The West African Examinations Council has called off the Federal Government to consider examiners for national honours in appreciation of…
Ambode, Ajimobi, Aregbesola make case for women empowerment
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, his counterparts in Oyo and Osun States, Senator Abiola Ajimobi and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola…
Aisha Buhari calls for women empowerment in nation building
The Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, on Wednesday, called for women empowerment as part of the nation’s development.…
NYSC should not be scrapped – Crawford VC
Prof. Olurotimi Ajayi, the Vice-Chancellor, Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun, on Wednesday said that the compulsory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)…
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43 passengers dead in Pakistan plane crash
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight with more than 40 people on board has crashed in the north of the…
Wike, PDP behind killings in Rivers State – Amaechi
With three days to the December 10 re-run elections in Rivers State, former governor of Rivers State and Minister of…
Frozen $15.5m: Court adjourns Jonathan’s suit to next year
Justice Mohammed Idris of a Federal High Court Lagos, on Wednesday, further adjourned till Jan. 18, 2017, hearing in a…
NIMC registers 60,000 persons for national ID
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) says it registered 60,000 persons for the national identity cards in Borno in 2016.…
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THISDAY sacks 76 workers
*As staff demand payment of salary arrears After owing staff salaries ranging from 10 to 17 months, THISDAY Newspapers Limited…
Donald Trump named Time magazine’s Person of the Year
United States president-elect Donald Trump has been named Person of the Year by Time magazine. The business tycoon-turned-politician defied the…
Yuletide: EKO Disco to install 138 transformers
The Management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc (EKEDC) has said that over 138 transformers worth N700 million had been…
Union seeks LASG bailout for college
The College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), chapter of the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Ijanikin on Wednesday…
Fraud: Court adjourns Justice Ngwuta’s trial
The criminal trial of Justice Sylvester Ngwuta by the Federal High Court, Abuja was on Wednesday stalled on allegation of…
Max Air former employees drags company to court
Four former employees of Max Air Ltd have dragged the company to the National Industrial Court, Kano, over alleged wrongful…
Auchi poly sacks 13 lecturers over sexual harassment
Authorities of the Federal Polytechnic Auchi in Edo have sacked 13 lecturers and demoted 16 others over sexual harassment and…