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Boko Haram: Adamawa govt to launch enlightenment campaign
The Adamawa Government is to launch enlightenment posters on the ongoing fight against the Boko Haram insurgency in the state.…
Amosun wins at Appeal Court as PDP loses again
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Thursday upheld the judgment of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal delivered on…
Ambode budgets N662.588bn for 2016, plans brighter future for Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga, Eromosele Ehbomele Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode today presented a budget of N662.588 billion for the 2016 fiscal…
Senate may increase NFF’s budgetary allocation – Ogba
Taiwo Adelu There are strong indications that Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, may get an increased budgetary allocation from the Federal…
CBN cautions customers on BVN
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has cautioned customers to beware of fraudsters trying to defraud them in the name…
Biafra: Court orders unconditional release of Nnamdi Kanu
Justice Adeniyi Ademola of Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday ordered the Department of State Services, DSS to immediately release…
PDP puts politics aside, wishes Buhari ‘Happy 73rd’ birthday
That the PDP bashed him, ridiculed him of being old and that he fell from the stairs and could not…
Blair to help Nigerian governors deliver on campaign promises
air Former British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, on Wednesday promised to assist states’ governors in Nigeria to deliver change…
From #BuhariGate to Happy 73rd for President Buhari
As Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari turns 73 on December 17, 2015, Nigerians took to Twitter to congratulate the lanky number…
Akwa Ibom elders seek probe into election petitions judgments
The Akwa Ibom State Elders have called for probe into what they described as contradictory judgements in the election petitions.…
Bishop Wale Oke urges Gov. Ajimobi to be more focused
Bishop Wale Oke, the General Overseer, Christ Life Church, Ibadan, has urged Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo state to be…
Ajimobi plans to raise IGR to N3.5bn
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Wednesday in Ibadan said that his administration would focus on raising Internally Generated…
Police deploy 3,000 officers to North-East
The Nigeria Police said it had deployed 3,000 officers as “holding force” to restore civil authority to the liberated areas…
FG to create 7 new railway corridors, says Amaechi
The Federal Government is to create seven more rail corridors of standard gauge railways in the country, the Minister of…
It is risky to grant Dasuki, others bail – EFCC tells Court
Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) counsel to the EFCC, told an FCT High Court on Wednesday that considering the gravity of the…
CACOL condemns army’s attack on Shi’ites
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has condemned the recent attacks and killings of the Shi’ite sect by…
Dasukigate: We’ve been vindicated over Buhari’s $300,000 saga – PDP
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the denial by President Muhammadu Buhari on the alleged benefit from funds…
Why we are yet to pay GIS stipends – Finance Ministry
The Federal Ministry of Finance on Wednesday assured participants of the Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS) of payment of their outstanding…
9ice, Sultan, others thrill fun lovers ahead 2015 Lagos Fiesta
Kazeem Ugbodaga Top shots in the entertainment scene on Tuesday stormed the Freedom Park, Lagos ahead of the ‘One Lagos…
Wike commends Amaechi, FG for continuing rail project
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has commended the Federal Government represented by Rotimi Amaechi for continuing with the revival…
Amaechi flags off Aba-Port Harcourt railway line
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Chuibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transport and former former governor of Rivers state has flagged off…
Dokpesi leaves Kuje prison after bail perfection
Media mogul, Raymond Dokpesi has finally left Kuje prison three days after he was granted bail by Justice Gabriel Kolawole…
Adamawa assembly members get N1bn for constituency projects
Adamawa Government has approved N1 billion for the state House of Assembly for the execution of constituency projects in 2016,…
ASUU to Ambode: Appoint LASU VC on merit
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Lagos State University (LASU) Chapter, has urged Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state…
INEC’s Returning Officer, undergraduate son murdered in Rivers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Organic Chemistry lecturer, Dr Ebirien Fubara of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Rivers…
Senate constitutes committee to investigate Shi’ite, military crisis
The Senate on Wednesday constituted an ad hoc committee to investigate the circumstances surrounding the clash between members of the…
Buhari and the corruption in the award of honorary degrees
On Saturday, December 12, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari shocked the Nigeria’s academic community when he went to Kaduna State University,…
Internet fraudster bags two years jail term
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on November 15, 2015 secured the conviction of an internet fraudster, Egbeniyi Oluwafemi(…
Nigerian troops kill four Maiduguri-bound suicide bombers
burata Nigerian Army said on Wednesday that four female suicide bombers were intercepted by troops and Borno Youths Empowerment Youth,…
Bayelsa Polls: Traditional rulers sue INEC, AGF over alleged disenfranchisement
Twelve traditional rulers in Southern Ijaw Area of Bayelsa State have dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to court…