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FG plans zero-based budgeting for 2016, says Osinbajo
The Federal Government is planning to use a zero-based budgeting format for its 2016 budget planning, the Vice President of…
Akwa Ibom Senate: Akpabio witnesses goof before tribunal
Hearing in the Akwa Ibom senatorial election matter continued on Tuesday with the witnesses for the respondent, Godswill Akpabio by…
FG negotiating with Boko Haram over Chibok girls, says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari told members of the Nigerian community in France under the aegis Nigerian in Diaspora Organisation that his…
Diamond Bank dragged to court for trespassing on landed property
Akin Kuponiyi A Lagos high court in Southwest, Nigeria has adjourned for judgement, a suit instituted by the family of…
Ogun Judge orders detention of 7 journalists, snake frees them
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Justice N.I. Agbelu of the High Court 1, Ota ordered the arrest and detention of seven journalists at…
Kim Kardashian, sisters launch individualized apps
New York (AFP) – Four members of the Kardashian clan, including Kim herself, have launched personalized apps designed to provide…
FG moves to pay arrears of salaries, allowances to workers
Federal Government on Tuesday ordered its Ministries, Departments and Agencies to compile the names of all public service employees who…
ICPC returns recovered N1billion looted by civil servants
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has handed over the sum of N924 million looted by…
Buffon shows his class as Juventus dumps Man City
Italian champions Juventus cast their early-season woes aside by beating in-form Manchester City 2-1 in their opening Champions League Group…
Nigeria’s Adesokan wins gold in Para-powerlifting, sets new world record
Nigeria’s Yakubu Adesokan has won a Para-powerlifting gold medal and in the process set a new world record with a…
D’Tigress overrun tough Gabon to advance to semi-finals
Adaora Elonu scored 22 points and scooped eight rebounds to pivot the D’Tigress to a 73-65 defeat of Gabon on…
Accountant lands in prison over alleged N20m fraud
Paul Iyoghojie Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU, Milvertaon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, western Nigeria, have arraigned a former…
Buhari assures French investors of favourable business environment
President Muhammadu Buhari in Paris assured French investors of his administration’s commitment to provide a suitable business environment that would…
Social media habit likely linked to depression among teens
A recent study released on Tuesday in Scotland, suggested that teenagers who are addicted to online social media, are more…
Building Collapse: Surveyors demand stiffer safety adherence culture
Kazeem Ugbodaga Worried by the frequent incidence of collapsed buildings and other avoidable accidents in the country, the Association of…
Teen Saxophonist, TJ Sax, supports children living with cancer
Funsho Arogundade Nigeria’s soulful and skillful Teen Saxophonist TJ Emore, popularly known as TJ Sax, has shown that age does…
Magistrate declines to free man who blinded wife
Cyriacus Izuekwe There was a mild drama at Ejigbo Magistrates’ court on Tuesday after the presiding Magistrate, Mrs J.O.E. Adeyemi…
Ekiti students, pupils to pay education levy
As part of the decisions arrived at during the recently held Education Summit in Ekiti State, students of public secondary…
Lagos lawmakers to re-order 2015 budget
Eromosele Ebhomele The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday began a study of the proposal for the re-ordering of…
Bamanga Tukur quits PDP, partisan politics
Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ambassador Bamanga Tukur, has retired from the party and from partisan…
Ojuelegba tragedy: Truck owner arraigned
AKIN KUPONIYI The owner of the truck whose container fell and killed three people at Ojuelegba overhead bridge, in Lagos,…
2 men arrested for forging Customs clearing papers
Cyriacus Izuekwe The police at Ajao Estate have arrested two suspects for their alleged involvement in forging the Nigeria Customs…
92-yr-old ardent Buhari supporter not abandoned — APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied reports in a section of the media that Haj Maitalle Tara Koko, the…
AMAA Founder, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe launches #AFRICAONE
Funsho Arogundade Ms. Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, founder of the annual Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA, has launched a new initiative, #AFRICAONE,…
Lagos Assembly plans single term for VCs, Rectors, others
Eromosele Ebhomele The Lagos State House of Assembly is to begin an amendment to the state laws establishing tertiary institutions…
ICPC arrests lawyer for allegedly defrauding FG of N928m
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has said it arrested a lawyer, Mr Adeola Adeyanju, for…
TSA won’t cause job loss —Jimoh
Eromosele Ebhomele The Deputy Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Olumuyiwa Jimoh, has said the Treasury Single…
Nigerian dismantles, couples Bajaj engine in record time
Daniels Ekugo A Nigerian mechanic, Adeshina Odedokun, has emerged the winner of a Bajaj Motorcycle in the recently concluded “Speed…
Nigerian refugees face deadly epidemics, hunger in Cameroon
Toby Lanzer, UN Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for Africa’s Sahel region, said Nigerian refugees in Cameroon, where they have sought refuge,…
Troops rescue more women, children from Boko Haram camps
The Nigerian Army said on Tuesday that scores of women and children held captive by Boko Haram insurgents have been…