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#FCTDecides: Police boss commends peaceful polls

Folusho Adebanjo, The Commissioner of Police in charge of Saturday’s council elections in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has commended…

#FCTDecides: Accreditation, voting commence in AMAC, Kuje

Accreditation and voting commenced in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) in the area council elections of the Federal Capital Territory…

Low turnout as Assembly bye-election kicks off in Ife

The Ife Central House of Assembly by-election began on time on Saturday but recording low turnout of eligible voters NAN…

Bayelsa Tribunal strikes out suit against Dickson

Okafor Ofiebor Efforts by an opposition party to nullify the election of Governor Seriake Dickson in the last Bayelsa governorship…
Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram leader

Ansaru leader arrested while visiting army barracks

A leader of Islamist sect, Ansaru, has arrested while visiting to a relation inside the army barracks in Lokoja, the…

PDP hindering local government elections in Lagos

Eromosele Ebhomele A Lagos lawmaker, Bisi Yusuff, has revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state was behind…

Court dismisses Metuh’s bid to stop trial, calls for witnesses

Justice Okon Abang has just asked Olisa Metuh to open his defence and call his witnesses, if he has any…

Gay marriages cause of global problems – Nigerian Anglican bishop

Bishop Emanuel Kanamani of the Anglican Diocese of Maiduguri on Friday said gay marriages were responsible for so many problems…

Pinnick seeks respite, appeals Jos Court judgement

Amaju Pinnick and his board of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, have swiftly filed an appeal, a motion to vacate the…

EFCC nabs two fake “EFCC Operatives”

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday April 8, 2016 arrested the duo of Abbas Attahiru…

Soyinka: Ibile Professional Coalition illegal-Eko Foundation

Eromosele Ebhomele The Eko Foundation has described the Coalition of Ibile Professionals which defends the choice of Professor Wole Soyinka…

UNILAG shut over power, fuel crisis

Kazeem Ugbodaga The management of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, has shut down the institution indefinitely over lingering power and…

Rivers pastor killed for preaching repentance

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Chukwu Ekere, a pastor based in Rivers state have been killed for preaching repentance in the oil-rich…

Ijora residents protest over release of cop who shot 3 at naming ceremony

Cyriacus Izuekwe The residents of Church Street in Ijora Badia have protested over the release of a police Inspector who…

Student lovers escape jail over hotel bills

Cyriacus Izuekwe Two lovers have escaped landing in jail after they went to a hotel to have fun and were…

FG to pay the poor, put graduates on payroll

The Nigerian government plans to make cash payments to poor people of about $25 per month to try to ease…

German police detain Nigerian with ISIS link

German police detained an Iraqi aged 46 and a Nigerian aged 29 on Thursday on suspicion of having links with…

Appeal Court strikes out PDP case against Edo Speaker, clerk

Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin, Edo State, has struck out a case seeking to commit the…

Workers Strikes: FG lost N7.7bn btw 2014 to 2016 – Fashola

Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, stated that the Federal Government lost N7.7 billion from 2014 to…

Miracle? Deeper Life pastor escapes while kidnappers ‎doze off

In what could be described as a miraculous intervention by God, a pastor of a pentecostal church has miraculously escaped…

NDDC awards N25m scholarship to 5 female students

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), said it had awarded N25million scholarship to five secondary school students to pursue their…

Sagay charges EFCC to clear all corrupt persons

Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, has charged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
EFCC detective Adariku Michael testifies as prosecution witness in the trial of ex NSA Sambo Dasuki, two others for alleged N33.2bn fraud

ECOWAS court to rule on Sambo Dasuki’s case

The Community Court of Justice, ECOWAS, says it will on April 11 rule on whether it has the jurisdiction to…

Dasukigate: How ex-PDP chairman, son got N300m – Witness

Stella George, a witness, in the ongoing trial of Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party,…

FCT council polls: FG warns trouble makers

The Federal Government on Thursday warned that it would deal with any troublemaker threatening the peaceful conduct of the April…

Waziri, former EFCC boss commends Buhari’s anti-graft war

Mrs Farida Waziri, the former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has commended the method and style of the…

Buhari to Doctors: Shelve your strike, I will honour my word

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja urged the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to shelve its threatened strike action…

Nigerian leaders must take tough decisions to grow economy – Ambode

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos on Thursday said that for Nigeria’s economy to improve, its leaders must have the courage…

Wike to Amaechi: Accept that you have lost the election

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has advised former governor of the state, Rotimi Amaechi, to accept the…

New Councils: Aregbesola inaugurates committees

The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola Thursday evening inaugurated three different committees saddled with the task of proper take…