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Blackout looms in Edo Police Command over N151mn unpaid electricity bill
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, has lamented the huge debt owed it by the Zone 5 and…
Lagos goes tough on street trading
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Government has vowed to combat the menace of illegal street trading and hawking in the the…
Ambode sacks new taskforce chairman
Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has sacked Akeem Adedeji as chairman of the state’s taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences…
Pope Francis condemns persecution of Christians
Pope Francis condemns persecution of Christians Pope Francis, in a letter to the church community on Friday in Jordan, slammed…
Stop shielding Amaechi, let him face corruption allegations, PDP tells Buhari
…Urges President Buhari, EFCC to Investigate, prosecute Amaechi Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…
Ex-Delta Speaker, Ochei reiterates support for wheelchair basketball
Former Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Sir Victor Ochei, has reiterated his commitment to the development of wheelchair basketball…
Ogoni hails Buhari on implementation of UNEP on Ogoniland
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has welcomed and congratulated the President Muhammadu…
NSC boss, Yakmut hails Milo Basketball top 50 camp
Director General National Sports Commission, NSC, Al Hassan Yakmut, has commended the organisers of the 2015 Milo Basketball Top 50…
Diageo empowers 1000 Nigerian bartenders
Funsho Arogundade Diageo, the parent company of Guinness Nigeria Plc, has kicked off its 2015 Master Bar Academy Programme in…
Britain to assist Nigeria in the fight against terror – Gen. Messenger
Lieutenant General Gordon Messenger, British Deputy Chief of Defence Staff on Military Strategy and Operations has re-affirmed the resolve of…
2Face, Yemi Alade, MI, others excite Makurdi fans
Funsho Arogundade The second phase of Star Music Trek 2015, which kicked off at the IBB Square in Makurdi, Benue…
Tunde Kelani’s online TV debuts
Funsho Arogundade Celebrated filmmaker, Tunde Kelani, has joined the growing band of online television owners as he launched his tundekelani.tv…
Senate tasks NAFDAC, others over EU food ban
The Senate on Thursday, called on the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to tighten its…
Gbenga Daniel commiserates with Oba Ebumawe over wife’s death
The immediate past governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has commiserated with His Royal Highness, Oba AbdulRazak Adenugba, the…
1,000 PDP members defect to APGA in Anambra
At least 1,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)…
PDP Workers, NWC members agree to sheathe sword
The brickbats between members of staff and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seemed to…
Shell declares force majeure
Shell has declared force majeure on gas supplies to Nigeria’s LNG export terminal on Bonny Island in Rivers State due…
Lightning grounds Zamfara radio station
Zamfara State Radio Station has gone off the air following a lightning that destroyed the transmitter of the state. The…
Panic grips defaulters of Ekiti Govt’s housing estate
Ekiti State Government has said the sealing off of the houses of defaulting occupants of Irewolede Estate, Ado-Ekiti has no…
S.African Parliament grills President Zuma over al-Bashir
ma South African President, Jacob Zuma, on Thursday reiterated his government’s stance that Pretoria had no role in ordering an…
Flood kills 2, washes away farm lands, crops in Plateau
Two persons on Wednesday died while one was missing following floods caused by a heavy downpour in three communities in…
Ambode tasks mothers, employers on exclusive breastfeeding
The wife of the Lagos state governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode on Thursday tasked working class nursing mothers on diligent and…
Rogue bankers bag 91-year jail term for stealing N114.6m
Justice Ibrahim Mairiga of the Kebbi State High Court has convicted Suleiman Ibrahim Musa, Bilyaminu Usman and Lawal Suleiman on…
Jonathan acquired sophisticated weapons to fight Boko Haram – ex-NSA Sambo
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Contrary to assertions by Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh, the former Chief of Defence Staff, the immediate past…
Buhari receives new ambassadors of Belgium, Poland, Rwanda
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja received the letters of credence of three new ambassadors to Nigeria. The new ambassadors…
Judge transfers suit seeking Saraki’s removal
Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Wednesday transferred a suit filed by some senators seeking to…
Togo fetish market helps the sick and politicians
Lucien Yekpon, a Lome traditional healer, sat on a stool surrounded by fetish objects — skulls, feathers, statuettes — to…
NEMA alert on flood as Cameroon releases water from Lagdo Dam
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has alerted the state governments and communities along River Benue of possible flood following…
Reps. to examine Edo State’s $75m credit request from World Bank
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Wednesday, raised a seven-man ad hoc committee to examine the…
INEC to improve communications process, minimise speculations – Zakari
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is working to improve its internal and external communications for effective electoral…