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Oshiomhole not owing workers salary arrears – Odion
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Edo state commissioner for Information and Orientation, Louis Odion, has denied that the state government was owing workers…
Lagos PDP reverse chairman’s sack
The Lagos State Chapter of the PDP on Monday described as null and void, the purported removal of its State…
I won’t tell you where Shekau is hiding – Chadian President
Chadian leader, Idriss Deby Itno, who once said he knew where Boko Haram leader was hiding and demanded his surrender,…
Money Laundering: Babalakin moves to stop EFCC fresh charge
Billionaire lawyer and Chief Executive of Bi-Courtney Limited, Chief Wale Babalakin has approached a Federal High Court, Lagos for an…
Delta workers strike, paralyse council activites
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba The indefinite strike action embarked upon by workers of the 25 local government councils of Delta State on…
N68m Theft: NBC Manager face trial 24 June
Akin Kuponiyi A Lagos Chief Magistrates’ court has fixed June 24, 2015, for the trial of a manager with Nigerian…
EFCC granted more time to file charges against Nnamani
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has adjourned till 19 May 2015, to enable…
Buhari will not persecute Jonathan, his ministers, aides – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the incoming General Muhammadu Buhari Administration will not persecute anyone, contrary to statements…
Imprison Benue Attorney-General, Suswam’s aide – Ijohor
A Makurdi-based Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Tony Ijohor, has asked the Benue Chief Judge, Justice Iorhemen Hwande, to imprison…
MTN Foundation spends N11bn on CSR in 10 years
The Chairman of MTN Foundation (MTNF), Mr Hamzat Ahmadu, on Monday said that the foundation had spent over N11 billion…
OPC not licenced to carry arms, says Fasehun
Dr Frederick Fasehun, founder of the O’dua Peoples Congress (OPC), on Monday said the group was not licensed to carry…
Two herdsmen convicted for stealing cow
An Area Court sitting in Kaiama, Kwara State, on Monday convicted two Fulani herdsmen, Manu Juli and Mohammed Bello for…
Emir of Kano wants FG to improve tertiary education
The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II has urged the Federal Government to pay priority attention to the quality…
N1.2bn: ICPC to arraign NSCDC Asst Commandant, others
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it has concluded plans to arraign three officials of…
Aides to Rivers lawmakers protest non-payment of salaries, allowances
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Aides to members of Rivers State House of Assembly, RSHA, in the early hours of this morning…
Fire injures 7, burns 109 shops in Lagos
No fewer than seven persons sustained varying degrees of injuries in a Sunday night inferno which gutted more than 109…
After surviving Boko Haram, returnees face hunger in Nigeria
By Julia Payne Nigeria (Reuters) – Since Nigeria’s army began clearing large areas of the country’s northeast from Boko Haram,…
The hottest place in hell should be reserved for Governors – Murray-Bruce
Bayelsa state, senator-elect, Ben Murray Bruce has stated that the hottest place in hell should be reserved for Nigerian governors…
PDP scheming to hijack leadership of National Assembly from APC – Kwankwaso
Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano state has hinted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is scheming to hijack the leadership…
There was no assassination attempt on me – Ifeanyi Ubah
By Japheth Omojuwa Contrary to certain reports that he was the target of an assassination attempt, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah while…
Australian dancer, 100, still hears call of the stage
Sydney (AFP) – Starring in music videos at the age of 100, Eileen Kramer is probably the oldest working dancer…
US museum returns looted 10th-century Hindu god to Cambodia
Phnom Penh (AFP) – An American museum has returned a 10th-century sandstone statue of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman to…
Rivers deputy gov, Ikuru is modern ‘Judas Iscariot’ – APC
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has branded Deputy Governor Tele Ikuru the…
Amaechi not willing to handover, says PDP
…says he has no choice Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The chairman of the Rivers State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party…
Kwankwaso owes local contractors N60billion
Association of Indigenous Contractors in Kano state on Sunday alleged that the state government was indebted to its members to…
I’ll deliver all my electoral promises – Amosun tells Ogun students
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state, Southwest, Nigeria has reinstated his promise to fulfill all his electioneering campaign…
Zoning Formula: APC on track, says Tambuwal
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Contrary to the believe that controversy over zoning of political offices is tearing the All Progressives Congress (APC),…
I’ll focus on agriculture, mining, not crude oil – Buhari
Nigeria’s president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday in Abuja said he would shift attention from oil to agricultural and mining…
Jonathan is humble, detribalized statesman, say Kefasi, Turner
The Head of Service of the Federation, Mr Danladi Kefasi, on Sunday described President Goodluck Jonathan as a detribalised Nigerian…
Okogie To Buhari: Provide quality governance, avoid distractions
The Catholic Archbishop Emeritus, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, on Sunday urged the President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari to focus on providing quality…