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Jonathan urges Nigerians, global community to support Buhari
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday in Abuja called on the global community and Nigerians to support the incoming government of…
PDP NWC accuses Dep. Nat Organizing Secretary of N2.5m fraud
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) has accused Chief Okey Nnadozie, the deputy national organising secretary of…
Fani-Kayode not a member of PDP, NWC calls for investigation
The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party has written the state chairman in Osun state questioning the membership…
PDP Rep-elect loses seat over certificate forgery
A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, elected member of the House of Representatives, Christian Abah, has lost his seat after a…
Demonising Tinubu And The Limit Of Lies
By Lateef Raji Except, perhaps, the President Elect, Muhammadu Buhari, there is no other Nigerian politician whose person has been…
Make public Excess Crude Account, CACOL dares Okonjo-Iweala
Eromosele Ebhomele The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, on Wednesday dared the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the…
Remove fuel subsidy to end fuel scarcity, Senator urges FG
The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (upstream), Senator Kabir Marafa, has called for the removal of oil susbsidy to…
Barber arraigned for peeping at female neighbour in bathroom
A 36-year old barber, Azeez Adewale, charged with peeping at his female neighbour while bathing in the bathroom, was arraigned…
Netanyahu suspends plan to separate Palestinians, Israelis on same buses
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday ordered the suspension of a plan to separate Palestinian and Israeli passengers on…
International summit tells Nkurunziza to postpone Burundi polls
An international summit for Africa’s Great Lakes Region, has called on President Pierre Nkurunziza to postpone legislative, local government and…
PDP NWC members destroyed party’s fortune, worked for APC – Fani-Kayode
Femi Fani-Kayode has dismissed claims that hate campaign by some members of PDP Presidential Campaign Orgnaisation caused its loss at…
Ebola cases rise in Guinea, Sierra Leone, says WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO), confirmed on Tuesday that Ebola has spread further in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Bruce Aylward,…
Lagos Assembly seat: Eshilokun-Sanni, Masha’s battle gets messier
Jamiu Yisa and Eromosele Ebhomele The battle between former Lagos Island council chairman, Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni, and a member of the…
Two arrested with 2.7kg cocaine at Kano airport
Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano Two Nigerians from the eastern part of the country have been nabbed by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,…
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Court Stops Jonathan From Signing Oil and Gas Bill
Akin Kuponiyi A Lagos Federal High Court, on Tuesday, restrained President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, from assenting to the bill for…
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Amaechi got part of missing $20bn, Okonjo-Iweala fires back
Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has suggested that Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi got a piece of the missing…
Abuja begins online tracking of buildings
The Department of Development Control of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has began online tracking all ongoing building developments in…
Wike to be sworn in by Bayelsa Chief Judge, Adoke orders
Ayorinde Oluokun\Abuja The Federal Government has directed the Chief Justice of Bayelsa State to swear in Barr. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike,…
Totally strange to say $20bn missing from account – Okonjo-Iweala
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi okonjo-Iweala, said it was strange for the Governors Forum to allege that 20 billion…
Cultism: 14 JSS Students Arrested In Benin
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The renewed war against cultism in Edo state has led to the arrest of 14 Junior Secondary School…
NAFDAC moves against illegal satchet water producers
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration (NAFDAC) has shut down two illegal sachet water production companies in Kano.…
17th Milo Basketball Tourney: Lagos, Oyo win tickets for national finals
Taiwo Adelu Ilupeju Grammar School, Lagos and Yejide Grammar School Ibadan, Oyo State have emerged champions in the boys and…
FG denies dissolution of FEC
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Senator Patricia Akwashiki, the Minister of Information has denied a report that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will…
Lawlessness: Ekiti gets new police commissioner
The new Police Commissioner for Ekiti State, Etop John James, on Tuesday pledged to restore peace in the state. James…
FG seeks secret trial of Biafra activists
The Federal Government has applied for closed-door trial in the treason charge against Benjamin Onwuka, a lawyer and 11 others,…
PENGASSAN to shut down oil well
Nigerian oil workers will go on strike to halt a small field if the government does not meet with them…
40 Nigerian youths for Mandela Washington Fellowship
The US Embassy has selected 40 Nigerians to participate in the Mandela Washington Fellowship Program for Young African Leaders in…
Chibok schoolgirls possibly hidden in bunkers: Borno elder
Four hundred days after Boko haram gunmen kidnapped 219 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno state, a theory is being suggested…
Emir of Kano, Sanusi promises to assist radio station
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, has expressed his readiness to assist the Pyramid Radio station, Kano, to…
Yale rewarded me for doing ‘right thing’ – Okonjo Iweala
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance, has attributed the Honorary Doctorate Degree given to her by American Yale University…