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Wema Bank Goes After Pastor Tunde Bakare to Recover N9 Billion Used For Building Church
• Loan Taken to Build New Multi-Billion Church • How COVID-19 Messed up Repayment Plan If the feelers coming from the headquarters of Wema Bank are something to be accorded some…
Katsina governor says no to Turji’s ceasefire letter
Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has kicked against dialogue with armed bandits operating in the state and other North-west states. Mr Masari spoke in a Sunday interview with DW…
Villagers rescued as bandits fall into hunters’ ambush in Kaduna
Hunters in Udawa village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State have arrested a bandit at a forest along Kaduna-Birnin Gwari. The hunters also rescued 9 kidnapped villagers in the operation against bandits terrorising…
PEF Must Account For Interest on N34bn Fixed Deposit – Senate
The Senate has insisted that the defunct Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF), now Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NPRA), must give account for interest that accrued to N34 billion it placed in…
States revive isolation centres, COVID-19 cases soar, vaccination grounded at 3.9%
• Infections hit 236,000 as military, police fail to enforce vaccination State governments have intensified preparations of isolation centres in readiness for possible admission of COVID-19 patients as cases of the virus…
Uche Nwosu: You’re only raising false alarm, Imo tells Okorocha
The Imo State Government on Sunday told a former Governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha, that he was only raising false claims over the arrest of his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu. The State…
FCT pledges probe, residents loot items as massive fire consumes Abuja mall
A massive fire outbreak at the Next Cash and Carry Supermarket in the Jahi area of the Federal Capital Territory, on Sunday, destroyed goods worth millions of naira. The FCT authorities have promised to probe the incident. It…
Presidential Aides Testing Positive To COVID-19 Shows They’re Human – Adesina
SPECIAL Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina, Sunday said that presidential aides testing positive to COVID-19 and on self-isolation, confirmed that they…
‘The world is different because of him’ — Archbishop of Canterbury, Buhari mourn Desmond Tutu
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, says Desmond Tutu transformed the people around the world while he lived. Tutu, one of the leaders of the anti-apartheid movement, died on Sunday at the age of 90. President Muhammadu…
I Believe In One Nigeria And I Love President Buhari – Governor Umahi
Governor David Nweze Umahi of Ebonyi State has assured some northern governors that he believes in the unity of the country and equally loves President Muhammadu Buhari. IGBERE TV had reported that some…
Free Train Rides: NRC Debunks Ticket Sales, Records Passengers’ Surge
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has insisted that no Nigerian is being extorted to board the free train rides declared by the Federal Government. Daily Trust reports that many…
Seme Customs intercept tramadol valued N1.4bn concealed in container
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Seme Command, says it has intercepted some items suspected to be tramadol capsules concealed with packaged jumbo size adult diapers in a container.…
Odudu Otu wins 2021 Gulder Ultimate Search
Odudu Otu has emerged as the winner of the 2021 Gulder Ultimate Search (GUS). The sports enthusiast beat three finalists to the prize, earning himself the show’s N50 million grand prize. Odudu emerged winner after finding…
Some People Will Blame Buhari If They Can’t Get Pregnant – Amaechi
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has urged Nigerians to stop blaming the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for all the challenges witnessed in the country.…
Nwosu: Police assaulted my wife, tore my daughter’s cloth before arresting my son-in-law…
Imo West Senator, Rochas Okorocha, has reacted to the arrest of his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu by operatives of the state Police Command. Okorocha said the police officers that arrested Nwosu pushed his wife, Nkechi, to the ground…
NAF Has Shaped War Against Insurgency – COAS
Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Faruk Yahaya has commended the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) for its synergy with the Nigerian Army in routing Boko Haram/ ISWAP terrorists in Borno and other…
6,300 Flights Cancelled As Omicron Hits Christmas Weekend Travel
More than 6,000 flights have been cancelled worldwide over the long Christmas weekend and thousands more were delayed, according to a tracking website, as the highly infectious Omicron…
NAFDAC Raises Alarm Over Indiscriminate Use Of Aphrodisiac
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC on Sunday raised the alarm over indiscriminate use of performance enhancing substances popularly known as aphrodisiac,…
Nigerian troops arrest injured bandits at Zamfara clinic after military operation
Nigerian troops have arrested no fewer than eight wounded bandits at a health facility in Zamfara State. They are part of outlaws who fled military aerial bombardment on Friday, according to an update on Sunday. A Nigerian…
Fuel subsidy: Nigerians battle with memories of 2012 removal as govt plots new implementation
The total removal of fuel subsidy which is currently being planned by the present government, had in 2012 imposed untold hardship on Nigerians when it was attempted by former President, Goodluck Jonathan. Recall that on…
2023: Over 100 Political Groups Apply To INEC For Registration
Less than two years after the Independent National Electoral Commission deregistered 74 political parties due to their poor performance in the 2019 general elections, the commission says no…
Electoral Bill: National Assembly Violated 1999 Constitution – Sule Lamido
A former Jigawa State governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has accused members of ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the National Assembly of…
Troops Arrest Godwin Nnamdi, Notorious IPOB/ESN Leader
Troops of 82 Division Nigerian Army(NA) in conjunction with other security agencies while conducting Exercise GOLDEN DAWN have arrested one Godwin Nnamdi, a notorious leader of the proscribed…
Money Jonathan left behind couldn’t sustain Nigeria three weeks -Amaechi
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says the money left behind for Nigeria by former President Goodluck Jonathan at the point of his departure on May 29, 2015 was not enough to run the affairs…