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2022 budget proposal: Yoruba peace group calls for forensic audit of FIRS
The Yoruba Leadership and Peace Initiative (TYLPI) has called on the federal government to order a forensic audit of the operations of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The…
Kanu: Yoruba Elders Have Failed Igboho, Should Learn From Igbo Leaders’ Visit To Buhari – Counsel
Pelumi Olajengbesi, one of the lawyers of embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, says South-West leaders have failed his client by not standing by him.…
Kano Beats South East In VAT Collection
Kano State collected more money as Value Added Tax (VAT) than the entire South East zone in the first eight months of 2021, an exclusive data obtained by Daily Trust show. Records of VAT…
Kill Bandits, Bring Their Corpses, Weapons – Chief Of Army Staff Tells Troops
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Farouk Yahaya, has ordered the troops in Niger State to go after the bandits and criminals terrorising the state and bring their corpses and…
Military jets ‘aggressively’ raid Turji, Buzu’s camps in North West
Airstrikes conducted on Saturday by aircraft of the Operation Hadarin Daji Air Component have led to the deaths of an undisclosed number of bandits. PRNigeria gathered that the…
#EndSARS Report: Panel alters medical doctor’s testimony on Lekki incident
A testimony by Dr. Babajide Lawson, a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Reddington Hospital, Lagos on the Lekki incidence as quoted in the Lagos State Judicial Panel…
Secessionists are wasting their time — Olumba Olumba Obu
Brotherhood of the Cross and Star (BCS), a Christian religious organisation, has said that some separatists agitating for secession were wasting their time, assuring that…
BREAKING: Osinbajo opens campaign office in Abuja ahead 2023 election
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has opened a campaign office in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, as part of preparations to contest the presidential ticket of the All Progressives…
Police rescue seven kidnap victims in Kwara
The Kwara Police Command has rescued seven workers of Lafrcdeen Pure Water Factory, who were kidnapped by gunmen on November 19, in Sosoki village, via Alapa. This was contained in a…
N22.7b Earned Allowances: SSANU rejects sharing formula
The Western Zone of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has rejected the sharing formula of the ‘Earned Allowances between the Academic Staff Unions of…
Secrecy, Doubts Trail One Billion Barrels Oil Discovery In North
One year after the discovery of over one billion barrels of crude oil in the North, the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited are yet to…
Lecturer, Student Shot Dead As Gunmen Raid Lagos College Of Education
A lecturer identified as Ahmed Saheed and an undergraduate student of Michael Otedola College of Primary Health Education (MOCPED) in Epe Local Government Area of…
Family of slain OAU postgraduate student demands justice, says son strangled
Family of murdered Timothy Adegoke, the OAU postgraduate’s student found dead after lodging at Hilton Hotel and Resort has demanded that full punishment be meted to those culpable in…
You’ve been a true leader – South-West PDP celebrates Bode George at 76
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South-West zone, has described Chief Bode George as a true leader of many parts, who has stood for democracy and taken many “bullets” for the country.…
NDLEA nabs drug dealer behind cocaine hidden in Lagos airport toilet
Operatives of the National Drug Law EnforcementvAgency (NDLEA) have arrested a Brazil-based drug dealer, Okafor Okwudili Moses in connection with over 2.55 kilograms of cocaine…
Buhari has borrowed ‘destinies’ of Nigerians away— Archbishop Odutemu
THE Archbishop of Bendel Ecclesiastical Province and Bishop of Ughelli Diocese, Anglican Communion, Most Revd. Cyril Odutemu, weekend, lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari’s led…
10 things to know about dementia — the illness Olu Jacobs is battling
Joke Silva, the ace Nigerian actress, recently revealed that Olu Jacobs, her celebrity husband, is battling dementia with Lewy bodies. The Nollywood star, while speaking of Jacobs’…
How We Brought Maina, Others To Book – Ex-EFCC Investigator Opens Up
The detective who led the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigation into the infamous pension scam, Habibu Adamu Aliyu, has given insights into how a former…
2023: Wife Of Katsina Deputy Governor Appointed Women Leader Of Tinubu Campaign Group
The wife of Katsina state Deputy Governor, Hajiya Mariya Buhari, has been appointed National women leader of Tinubu Support Organisation (TSO). This was contained in a…
Names Of Victims On Lekki Tollgate Panel Report Are Fictitious – Kemi Olunloyo
Nigerian investigative journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has claimed that several names in the #EndsSARS panel report whom are believed to be victims Lekki Tollgate Killings are fictitious,…
Sad Tale Of Dangote Drivers Killed By Suspected IPOB Members
Three weeks ago, suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) attacked a Dangote Cement Company trailer returning from the company’s deport in Orlu, Imo State. The driver…
Direct Primaries Can Foster Youth Participation in Governance – Gbajabiamila
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday said direct primaries for political parties would enhance the participation of youths in politics and…
In Double Standard, US Threatens Nigeria with Arms Embargo, While Silent on Israel
In what seems to be a clear case of double standard, the United States has threatened that Nigeria risks arms embargo for alleged violations of the laws on armed conflicts in…
Suspected gunmen gunned down in gun duel with Owerri police
The Imo State Police Command has said it gunned down a suspected gunman during a gun duel on the Owerri-Onitsha Road last Thursday. Commissioner of Police (CP) in Imo, Rabiu Hussaini,…