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Buni Breaking Known Laws Because He Has No Basic Education – Marafa
The crisis rocking Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is not abating anytime soon, as Senator Kabiru Marafa, yesterday, said the reason the chairman…
Chinese Investors Acquire 120 Hectares Of Land In Akwa Ibom For Hendai City
….Project to generate 80,000 direct jobs-Essien A multibillion dollars modern city development project promoted by the Chinese investors , Hendai Investment Limited, is coming to oil rich…
Our resilience against Boko Haram earned us N2 billion – UNIMAID V
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, Aliyu Shugaba, says the institution’s refusal to close down at the peak of Boko Haram insurgency has attracted a N2 billion distance learning…
Keystone Bank Denies Reports On Its Meeting With Reps Committee On Recovery
Keystone Bank Limited has said that reports in some sections of the online media on its meeting with the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Assessment and Status of…
Group alleges plan to handover Ondo forest reserves to gov’s son
……..It is plot to blackmail my son, says Akeredolu A group, Ondo State Concerned Timber Merchants (OSCTIM), has raised the alarm over an alleged clandestine plot by the state…
With 559 Days to Go, Buhari on Aggressive Int’l Investment Drive
*From Saudi Arabia, France, now South Africa, president wooing investors With 559 days to the end of his tenure, a normally reticent President Muhammadu Buhari has come out of his…
Nine Years After, Zulum Reopens Bama-Banki-Cameroon Road
… Gives Army 10 Operational Vehicles …. Warns Against Extortion, Smuggling With full participation of the Nigerian military, Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday,…
How ISWAP Killed Gen. Zirkushu — Ndume
Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Ali Ndume, Sunday spoke on how the ISWAP fighters killed the Commander of the 28 Task Force Brigade, Chibok, Brig-Gen. Dzarma…
EFCC grills MD of First Bank Holdings, Nnamdi Okonkwo
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reportedly grilled the newly-appointed Managing Director of First Bank of Nigeria Holdings Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo. It was learnt that…
Dave Chappelle for gender realism
How does a millionaire celebrity comedian with a boatload of awards retain his subversive edge? The great Richard Pryor solved the problem in the 1970s and 1980s by ever more extravagantly—and hilariously—going off the rails.…
ISWAP regrouping around Lake Chad…Army needs more support – Ndume
Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno south, says fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) are regrouping around Lake Chad. Ndume, senate committee chairman on…
Buhari’s ministers need to talk more about their projects – Farida Waziri
Farida Waziri, a former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has urged the ministers to talk more about the projects they are undertaking. The former EFCC…
FIRS’ N228bn Budget Surpasses NASS, Judiciary, Many States
While Nigerians continue to complain of the huge budget allocation to the National Assembly over the year and the close to N2 trillion allocated to the security sector in the 2022…
APC releases timetable for Ekiti, Osun governorship elections
The All Progressives Congress on Sunday released a timetable for Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections scheduled to hold in 2022. An official notice signed by the National Secretary of…
I don’t know what happened to camera I recovered at Lekki tollgate – Fashola
Babatunde Fashola, minister for works and housing, says he does not know what happened to the video camera he recovered at the Lekki tollgate after the #EndSARS protests. Following the Lekki…
Revenge: Photos as Nigerian troops kill ISWAP Commander, 37 others
Nigerian troops have eliminated a top-ranking Commander of the Islamic State of West Africa Province and other terrorists in a brutal military offensive at Askira Uba, Borno State after…
Strike: Amaechi, Railway Workers’ Meeting Ends In Deadlock
The meeting held on Saturday between the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi and the Nigerian Railway Workers’ Unions over the planned three-day warning strike has ended in a deadlock.…
BREAKING: Dangote’s Younger Brother Dies In US
Sani Dangote, the younger brother of Africa’s richest man, is dead. Details of his death are sketchy but he was said to have died at a US hospital. The deceased was the Group…
BREAKING: Tinubu’s Presidential Campaign Flag-off Ahead Of 2023 Begins In Rivers
Senator Magnus Abe-led All Progressives Congress (APC) has flagged off campaign in support of former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu’s presidential ambition, saying he is not…
Nestoil Group and its failed campaign of calumny against The Witness Newspaper: Our Stand
We knew it would get to this. We knew when they made surreptitious moves for us to stop the report, that the campaign to malign THE WITNESS would soon begin. But the end to this Nestoil…
EFCC arrests man for $200,000 cryptocurrency fraud in Lagos
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Zonal Command have arrested one Precious Ofure Omonkhoa for an alleged bitcoin investment scam. He was…
NAF jets bomb terrorists’ meeting with ISWAP new leader, Shuwaram
Scores of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have been killed and many others injured by fighter jets of the Nigerian Air Force, PRNigeria learnt. The…
‘Some insurgents hell-bent we don’t regain peace’ — Zulum speaks on ISWAP attack
Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno, has commiserated with the military over the death of some officers and soldiers killed in the state. Dzarma Zirkusu, a brigadier-general and…
What Ikoyi building collapse means for housing stakeholders
Beyond the pain of loss inflicted on people whose loved ones were killed, the Gerard Road Ikoyi building collapse in Lagos means so much for critical stakeholders in Nigeria’s housing…