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UAE counters Kachikwu, says no need for OPEC emergency meeting

The United Arab Emirates moved to quash talk of a potential emergency meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting…

El Rufai sponsors 30 female students on medical course to Uganda

The Kaduna Government led by Governor Nasir El-Rufai has awarded scholarship to 30 female students from the State to study…

Lassa Fever claims one life in Edo

Jethro Ibileke/Benin Edo state Ministry of Health Monday announced that Lassa fever has claimed its first casualty in its latest…

400 labour cases pending before Industrial Court in Yenagoa

Justice James Agbadu-Fishim of the Yenegoa Division of National Industrial Court, has expressed worry over the high number of pending…

Court grants printer who forged NAFDAC documents bail

An Apapa Magistrates’ Court has granted bail to a printer, Bamidele Afolabi, who allegedly forged product registration documents belonging to…

Zone 2 Police promise criminals hell with new crime-fighting technology

Criminals in Lagos and Ogun States may not have breather any longer to operate as the Zone 2 Police Command…

Tenant lands in prison for accusing landlord of witchcraft

Cyriacus Izuekwe A 48-year-old tenant has been arrested and charged before Isolo Magistrates’ court and remanded in prison for allegedly…

Two traffickers arrested with 29 victims in C/River

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Cross River Command, said on Tuesday in Calabar that two suspected human traffickers with 29…

NDLEA advocates law prohibiting brewing of ‘goskolo’

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Plateau Command, has urged the Plateau Government to enact a law that would…

Alaba trader arrested for diverting N2.2m bicycles

Cyricus Izuekwe A 23-year-old trader at Alaba International Market in Ojo, Lagos, western Nigeria, has been arrested and charged before…

OPEC members request emergency meeting – Kachikwu

Nigeria’s oil minister said on Tuesday that a “couple” of members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)…
Godwin Emefiele, CBN Governo

New low for naira, now N282 to a dollar

The naira hit a record low of 282 naira per dollar on the unofficial market on Monday after the central…

Switzerland to transfer $300m Abacha loot to Nigeria

Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, has announced that the government of Switzerland would transfer a further $300 million in recovered…

FG to deploy modern technologies to secure border – Dambazzau

The Federal Government will deploy modern technologies to secure Nigeria’s borders, Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), has said.…

Police recover prohibited drugs worth N1.2bn in Kano

Kano state Police Command recovered prohibited drugs worth N1.2 billion from dealers between October 25 and December 31, 2015. DSP…

Security Consultant sues Lagos Police Commissioner over wrongful detention

Henry Ojelu A Security Consultant, Olanrewaju Olabinjo has dragged the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State before a Federal High Court…

Nigerian artists stage solidarity event for Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh

Nigerian artists will on Thursday, 14 January stage a solidarity event for Palestinian poet, Ashraf Fayadh, who has been condemned…

Niger court rejects bail for presidential hopeful jailed in baby scandal

A Niger court on Monday denied bail to Hama Amadou, a leading opposition figure and contender in next month’s presidential…

Olamide, Don Jazzy’s Headies tiff : Dangote emerges secret peacemaker

When Nigeria’s rap artiste Olamide and music maker, Don Jazzy announced a few days after their New Year quarrel at…

Nwobodo explains how he shared N100m given to him

Former Anambra state governor, Chief Jim Nwobodo, has stated that he did not receive N500m as rumoured, instead he got…

24 years a slave, Ofonime Inuk tells his story

You probably have seen Chiwetel Ejiofor star in ’12 years a slave’ but an adaptation for ’24 years a slave’…

Sylva went clubbing, drinking after loss at Bayelsa polls – PDP group

Restoration Campaign Organisation, a Peoples Democratic Party group has claimed that the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Timipre Sylva, did…

Wike’s Judicial Commission Of Inquiry pressured to indict, criminalize Amaechi – Member

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A former member of the Rivers State Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by Governor Nyesom Wike…

Timipre Sylva will lose at tribunal – PDP campaign organisation

Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Restoration Campaign Organisation has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in the just concluded…

We have nothing to do with security raids in Rivers – APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers, said on Monday that it had nothing to do with recent raids by…

US court rejects Nestle bid to throw out child slavery suit

The United States Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by Nestle SA, the world’s largest food maker, and two…

Lawyer drags EFCC, AGF to court over Metuh’s detention ‬

Akin Kuponiyi ‪ A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC)…

Arrest me if I drive against traffic, Amosun tells new TRACE boss

Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state has charged the new TRACE Commander in the state, Fatai Olaseni Ogunyemi,…

Ajimobi demolishes Ogunpa market

GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN The demolition caterpillar of Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, western Nigeria, Monday struck at Ogunpa market as…

Pursuit of mundane primordial interest bane of LASU —New VC

Kazeem Ugbodaga The new Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, LASU, Prof. Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun says the pursuit of mundane primordial…