Author: Kazeem Ugbodaga
Buhari orders NHIS boss, Yusuf to proceed on compulsory leave
Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday ordered the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf, to…
Intercontinental Hotels drags 5 staff to court for stealing N3.4m
The Management of Intercontinental Hotels, Victoria Island, Lagos has dragged five of its staff before a Lagos Magistrate Court for…
Businesswoman, accomplice remanded in prison for stealing N14.9m From Sterling Bank
Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU IN Ikoyi, Lagos have arrested a suspected female fraudster, Ogechi perpetual Ezeoni,…
Truck dealer jailed 3 years for stealing N1.6m
An Igbosere High Court in Lagos State on Wednesday sentenced a truck dealer, Okezie Ebele, to three years’ imprisonment for…
US Missionary shot dead in Cameroon
A US missionary has been killed in Cameroon about two weeks after moving there with his wife and eight children.
Youths charged on nation building
The Lagos State Youth Organising Secretary, All Progressives Congress, APC, Aregbe Idris has charged youths in the country to merge…
NHIS boss, Yusuf sues Health Minister, AGF
The Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Prof. Usman Yusuf, has sued the Minister of Health, Prof.…
8 feared dead as rival youth groups clash on Lagos Island
Residents and traders in some parts of Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria are now living in fear as eight youths…
APGA: A Betrayal of Historic Proportion
It has become very necessary and important for our records, that as a former Governor, leader and contestant for the…
Anenih: Edo PDP lauds Obaseki for declaring 3-day mourning period
Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has commended the State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, for declaring a…
Libation not Fetish, but prayer – Appolus Chu
As civilization erodes today’s society and as the advent of western culture threatens the African tradition, a paramount ruler in…
Adeleke, four others arraigned for exam malpractice
Ademola Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) governorship candidate for the Osun Election was on Wednesday arraigned at the Federal…
Body of missing Army General found
The body of the missing Army General, Retired Major General Idris Alkali has been found, the Army said on Wednesday.
Minimum Wage: FG can’t accept governors’ N22,500 offer
Nigeria's Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr. Chris Ngige, on Wednesday said the Federal Government cannot accept the N22,500 minimum…
$22.06bn, N481.75bn not remitted to Federation Account between 1999-2015 – NEITI
The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) says that the 22.06 billion dollars and N481.75 billion yet to be remitted…
El-Zakzaky: I-G puts Commissioners of Police on red alert
The Inspector- General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris has placed all Commissioners of Police on red alert over the activities…
Court remands 6 men in EFCC custody over N148m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday charged six men and a company before a Federal High Court…
Former Ghana FA president, Nyantakyi banned for life by FIFA
Former Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi was handed a life ban from all football-related activities by FIFA on Tuesday…
NLC stages protest over FG’s ‘No Work No Pay’
The President of the Joint Public Negotiating Council Comrade, Abdulrafiu Adeniji on Tuesday led a protest over the federal government's…
Ogun PDP Crisis: INEC nullifies Adebutu’s guber candidacy
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has formally recognised the list of candidates for the 2019 general elections submitted to…
Governors to Labour: We can only pay N22,500 as new Minimum Wage
Nigerian governors met in Abuja on Tuesday night and told the Organised Labour that they can only pay N22,500 as…
Photos: Ambode meets Sanwo-Olu, Hamzat at GAC meeting
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Tuesday met with the All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos governorship candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu…
Boko Haram: FG releases report on alleged deplorable condition of troops
The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja released a report on investigation into alleged deplorable conditions of the troops involved…
Obaseki declares three days mourning in Edo for Anenih
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Tuesday declared a three-day mourning period in honour of late elder statesman, Chief Tony…
Minimum wage: Labour, CSOs protest, begin mobilisation for nationwide strike
Members of the organised labour, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the United Labour Congress (ULC)…
Union Bank posts N14.9bn profit in 3rd quarters of 2018
Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN) Plc on Tuesday declared a profit before tax of N14.9 billion for the nine months…
Forex: Inter-bank market gets another $210m boost
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says authorised dealers received 100 million dollars from the bank on Tuesday as part…
Police arrest 400 Shi’ite members
Police in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) said 400 members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), also known as Shi’ites, had…
Education is key to reducing extreme poverty – Osinbajo
The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Tuesday said that quality education was key to reducing extreme poverty in the…
Buhari salutes Oba of Lagos at 75
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja felicitated with the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu on his 75th birthday.