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Corps member, 8 others arrested for robbery, kidnapping
lice The Anambra Police Command has arrested nine suspects including a serving member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)…
War on Drugs: Indonesia to resume executions
Indonesia said on Thursday it will resume executions of drug traffickers this year, after a brief hiatus since last year’s…
FG to pay the poor, put graduates on payroll
The Nigerian government plans to make cash payments to poor people of about $25 per month to try to ease…
German police detain Nigerian with ISIS link
German police detained an Iraqi aged 46 and a Nigerian aged 29 on Thursday on suspicion of having links with…
Nigeria gets $200m from oil coys to pay for fuel imports -NNPC
Nigeria will get $200 million in badly-needed hard currency from oil majors to pay for fuel imports and ease petrol…
Why Nigeria is in foreign exchange crisis – Segun Agbaje
The Managing Director, Guarantee Trust Bank Plc (GTB), Mr Segun Agbaje, has stated that the decline in oil price at…
CBN approves two super agents to distribute banking services
Mrs Tokunbo Martins, the Director, Banking Supervision Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says the bank has approved…
Appeal Court strikes out PDP case against Edo Speaker, clerk
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin, Edo State, has struck out a case seeking to commit the…
Workers Strikes: FG lost N7.7bn btw 2014 to 2016 – Fashola
Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, stated that the Federal Government lost N7.7 billion from 2014 to…
Miracle? Deeper Life pastor escapes while kidnappers doze off
In what could be described as a miraculous intervention by God, a pastor of a pentecostal church has miraculously escaped…
Facebook Messenger hits 900 million users
fac Facebook Messenger has hit 900 million users worldwide. The widely used messaging application has also announced that it is…
Ibinabo Fiberesima granted bail by Appeal Court
By Akin Kuponiyi Reprieve came the way of the ex-beauty queen, Ibinabo Fiberesima today as the Appeal court sitting in…
Delta State signs 500 megawatts MoU
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Delta State Government has taken a quantum leap to boost power generation in the state when it…
NDDC awards N25m scholarship to 5 female students
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), said it had awarded N25million scholarship to five secondary school students to pursue their…
How Orubebe’s hidden property was uncovered- Witness
A prosecution witness, Samuel Madojemu, on Thursday in Abuja, told the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), how the hidden property…
Sagay charges EFCC to clear all corrupt persons
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, has charged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
ECOWAS Court to rule on Dasuki case April 11
The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, says it will on April 11 rule on whether it has the jurisdiction to…
ECOWAS court to rule on Sambo Dasuki’s case
The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, says it will on April 11 rule on whether it has the jurisdiction to…
Dasukigate: How ex-PDP chairman, son got N300m – Witness
Stella George, a witness, in the ongoing trial of Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,…
FCT council polls: FG warns trouble makers
The Federal Government on Thursday warned that it would deal with any troublemaker threatening the peaceful conduct of the April…
EFCC arraigns NAMA MD, four others for N6.9bn fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today, April 7, 2016 arraigned five staff of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) before…
Waziri, former EFCC boss commends Buhari’s anti-graft war
Mrs Farida Waziri, the former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has commended the method and style of the…
Buhari to Doctors: Shelve your strike, I will honour my word
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja urged the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to shelve its threatened strike action…
Nigerian leaders must take tough decisions to grow economy – Ambode
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos on Thursday said that for Nigeria’s economy to improve, its leaders must have the courage…
2016 budget will be well managed – Udoma
An assurance has been given that the 2016 budget will be well managed to achieve the economic growth level Nigerians…
Wike to Amaechi: Accept that you have lost the election
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has advised former governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi, to accept the…
Ajimobi seeks Customs/community partnership to curb smuggling
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has advocated the creation of “Customs-Community Relations Groups” that would be saddled with…
Dubious Lawyers, Dubious Senators Et Al
By Joe Igbokwe A fierce battle is going on in Nigeria today between the Agents of Change and the Agents…
Actress Ibinabo Fiberesima gets N2m bail
Funsho Arogundade Temporary respite came the way of embattled ex-beauty queen and actress, Ibinabo Fiberesima, as the Lagos Division of…
New Councils: Aregbesola inaugurates committees
The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola Thursday evening inaugurated three different committees saddled with the task of proper take…