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Nigerian contractors of Agip (CICA) oppose move by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to sell assets its Oando plc over debt obligations

Business

Nigerian contractors oppose Agip’s deal with Oando

The group lamented that Agip owed its members huge amounts of money for jobs they did for the company.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta hailed a magic night as his side held their nerve to reach the Champions League quarter-finals with a penalty-shootout victory over FC Porto on Tuesday.

Football, Sports

We’ve beaten the best team in the world: Arteta celebrates Arsenal’s win over City

Arsenal substitute Gabriel Martinelli fired a deflected last-gasp winner to earn a 1-0 win which ended their longest winless streak…
Edo govt slams Olumide Akpata, Labour Party, LP candidate in the state 2024 governorship election over his recent assertions on tv programme

News

Ex-NBA President Akpata reveals battle with cancer, vows to win Edo election

Akpata had last week joined the Labour Party in Edo during which he also signified his interest to contest in…

Education

Pioneer students arrive at Real Madrid Football Academy Port Harcourt

The Real Madrid Football Academy Port Harcourt was founded in 2019 by the Governor of Rivers State having been given…
The ordeal of late Mohbad as an artiste under the label owned by Naira Marley features as exam question of Rivers State University (RSU)

Metro

Mohbad, Naira Marley feature in Rivers University exam

In the viral photo of the paper which surfaced online, the question prompted an answer on the intricacies involved in…
I’m lost without my Mom: Wizkid cries out

Entertainment

Wizkid: Family releases mum’s burial plans

Born Ayo Balogun on July 26, 1990, in Surulere, Lagos, Wizkid grew up in a polygamous home with a Muslim…
Products that had expired seven years ago were among the expired goods recently confiscated in Minna, Niger State by officials of SON.

News

SON seizes products that had expired 7 years ago in Minna markets

SON officials expressed concern at the high rate of circulation of expired, uncertified, unregistered and substandard products in market places.
An eyewitness, John Terwase, narrates how heavily armed invaders killed three persons in Mbasombo community of Gwer East LG of Benue State

News

I will not surrender Benue to criminal gangs – Gov Alia

Gov. Alia is serious about securing the state and ridding it of criminal elements,” Alia was quoted as saying in…
Umar-Zakari

Politics

Appeal Court reverses sack of Rep Zakari by tribunal

The Court of Appeal, in its judgment, held that the respondents, who were petitioners at the tribunal, failed to prove…
SERAP

Politics

INEC reprimands legal officer over appeal of Kano tribunal judgment

INEC, in a statement on Saturday, said the Legal Officer in Kano State office of the Commission who wrote letter…
There is unease among the bosses of REMASAB and KAROTA following disapproval of performance of the two Kano agencies by Governor Abba Yusuf

Metro

Kano governor Yusuf visits hospital, offers job to casual worker, money to patients

Yusuf's Chief Press Secretary, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, further indicated that the Governor ordered for the immediate rehabilitation of the…
Gov. Siminalayi Fubara to revamp Songhai Integrated Farm project by ex- governor Rotimi Amaechi, but abandoned by Wike's administration.

News

Fubara to revamp abandoned Amaechi’s Songhai farm project

Fubara stated that revamping the Songhai Farms will serve the purpose of diversifying the economy of the State, get the…
Catholic Church in Edo begins process of beatification and canonisation of 14-year-old Vivian Uchechi Ogu who was shot dead for resisting rape

News

Catholic Church to canonize teenager shot dead for resisting rape in Edo

By Jethro Ibileke The Catholic Church in Benin, Edo State said it has issued the needed edict to enhance the…
Spending clarifies last encounter with Mohbad before singer’s death

News

Police lied on Mohbad, says NDLEA

Lagos Police Commissioner, Idowu Owohunwa, had told journalists on Friday that the NDLEA had yet to confirm social media posts…
Supreme Court reserves judgment in appeal filed by Abba Yusuf of NNPP seeking to overturn his sack as Kano governor by Appeal Court

Politics

Kano governorship: INEC makes U-turn, joins appeal against APC’s tribunal victory

The Kano State Governorship Election Tribunal had sacked Governor Yusuf, and ordered INEC to issue a Certificate of Return to…
NBC gives Lagos based Arise TV 'final warning' over alleged preponderance of incendiary remarks in the programmes broadcast on its network.

News

NBC tackles Arise TV over ‘incendiary’ remarks, issues final warning

NBC listed the alleged incendiary remarks made by guests on the recent programmes of Arise TV and how they violated…
Security operatives rescue Catholic priest, 2 others, recover 9 vehicles, guns, others in raid on insurgents' camp in Ogbunka, Anambra State

News

Anambra: Priest, 2 others rescued, 9 vehicles recovered from kidnappers’ camp

Three of the gang members operating the camp believed to be responsible for kidnappings in Orumba North and South as…
Customs CG Wale Adeniyi says FG will establish petrol stations at border areas of the country to succor to people living in the communities

News

FG to establish petrol stations in border towns – Customs CG Adeniyi

The Controller General of Nigeria Customs, Adewale Adeniyi, revealed this during his visit to Customs Area 1 Command in Abeokuta,…
Supreme Court reserves judgment in appeal filed by Abba Yusuf of NNPP seeking to overturn his sack as Kano governor by Appeal Court

Politics

Kano governorship tussle: INEC withdraws appeal against APC’s tribunal victory

in a letter addressed to the Secretary of Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, signed by Suleiman Alkali, Head of Department…
APC Rep James Faleke declares readiness to works for success of his party’s candidate, Usman Ododo in Kogi Nov. 11 governorship election.

Politics

Kogi 2023: Faleke declares readiness to work for victory of APC’s Ododo

Faleke was a former deputy governorship candidate of Kogi APC and the current Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee…
A Nigerian businessman, Kolawole Erinle, jailed 12 years for hijacking payment of $1.4 million from U.S the Kansas City University, KCUMB,

Metro

How Nigerian Kolawole Erinle hijacked $1.4m payment from U.S varsity

Erinle and his company, Rinde-Remdex Nigeria Limited were first arraigned before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court sitting…
Ahmad Abubakar Ahmad bags 87 years imprisonment over N325 million fraud he committed in Sokoto using a purported bureau de change business.

Metro

How Sokoto man Ahmad defrauded 12 victims of N325m with fake investment deals

EFCC identified some of the major victims of Ahmad's scam including one Usama Abdullahi who gave him the sum of…
VP Kashim Shettima says $617.7m i-DICE initiative is crucial to President Tinubu’s administration plan to create jobs in technology space

News

Shetimma issues orders on kickoff of $617m i-DICE jobs initiative

By Salisu Sani-Idris Vice President Kashim Shettima, has said the Federal Government’s Investment in the $617.7m Digital and Creative Enterprises…
Lagos crypto trader, Lawrence Karinate escapes jail after he pleaded guilty to engaging in a pig-butchering scam from which he realised $2000.

Metro

Lagos Yahoo boy Karinate begs court for mercy, escapes jail

Karinate who was arrested alongside others, in the Lekki area of Lagos State on May 26, 2023 had fraudulently presented…
Otti to immortalise 1929 Aba Women’s Riot heroines

News

Tribunal affirms Alex Otti’s victory, dismisses Abia PDP’s petition

The tribunal consequently struck out the petition filed by the PDP candidate challenging the election of Otti in its almost…
Chairpersons of Labour Party in 21 LGAs of Kogi, supporters dump the party for the ruling APC ahead of the state 2023 governorship election

Politics

Kogi 2023: Setback for LP as 21 LG chairpersons defect to APC

The Labour Party leaders and their members were received into the ruling APC by the state Chairman of the party…
Court grants NGO’s plea for I-G to re-investigate Mohbad’s death

News, Top Stories

Police: How auxiliary nurse Ogedengbe ‘injected’ Mohbad to death

The Police Commissioner said the auxiliary nurse was invited by a friend of the deceased musician, Ayobami Sadiq, also known…
Trial of Nigerian singer Azeez Fashola (a.k.a Naira Marley) for cyber fraud by EFCC was stalled at a Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday

Headlines, News

Court issues reproduction warrant for Naira Marley

Naira Marley is standing trial before the court on cyber crime-related offences.
Kano government denies giving directives to the state police Command to ban durbar in the state during Eid-el-Kabir festivities.

Education

MURIC excited as Kano govt bans ‘harmful’ textbooks

MURIC said this while commending the Kano government for recently prohibiting some textbooks in nursery, primary and secondary schools for…
Police dock 3 Kano men for allegedly deceiving 11 underaged boys to have unnatural sexual intercourse with them

Metro

Yobe man aburam arrested for chaining, starving wife for one year

Baburam was arrested by operatives of Yobe Command of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC.
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