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Gold castings of the hands of South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela have been sold for $10m (£7m) in bitcoin. South African businessman Malcolm Duncan sold four casts to a Canadian crypto-currency exchange firm,…

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Wednesday shared the sum of N647.39bn among the Federal, States and Local Government, despite discrepancies of about N37.76 billion in revenue. The meeting of the committee which…

Twelve properties, N2.4 billion, $115 million, and bullet-proof cars have been recovered from Adeola Amosu, a former chief of air staff, says Tosin Owobo, a prosecution witness. Amosu is standing trial for corruption alongside two…

His relationship with fellow housemate, Nina, is undoubtedly one of the most talked about in the Big Brother Double Wahala house and now, he just might have broken hearts after he admitted to having someone else outside the Big Brother…

Behind every successful man, they say, is a woman. Behind every successful president, we can say, is his aide-de-camp (ADC). Mohammed Abubakar is the man behind President Muhammadu Buhari. One of those men whose words we don’t hear,…

United Bank for Africa (UBA Plc) yesterday announced that its London subsidiary has obtained regulatory permission to carry out wholesale banking services in the United Kingdom. The approval licence was granted to the lender by the…

• Makes N19b in one year, excess gain hits N4.5 billion• Official says consulate uses market-based exchange rateThough the Federal Government pegged the exchange rate at N305.25 to a dollar, the American Consulate in Nigeria exchanged…

The Chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Itse Sagay, has called on Nigeria to adopt the jury system in its criminal justice administration, because some judges cannot be relied upon to uphold the integrity of…

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting ended in deadlock in Abuja on Tuesday. This is as a result of the alleged discrepancy observed in the revenue figures presented by the Nigerian National Petroleum…

The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria has called on the federal government to prosecute a former minister of defence, Theophilus Danjuma, for calling on Nigerians to take arms to defend themselves against killers. Mr. Danjuma…

The Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Adewale Akanbi and the League of Imams and Alfas in the South-West, Edo and Delta states are at loggerheads over the propriety or otherwise  of the monarch to install Yaquob Abdul-Baki Mohammed as the Waziri of the…

Ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Lagos, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Imohimi Edgal, on Tuesday said there would be temporary road closure and diversions in some areas. The routes to be closed are Ikeja,…

Bola Tinubu, a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says President Muhammadu Buhari has saved the ruling party from “serious legal turmoil”. Describing the extension of the tenureof the national working committee (NWC) of…

Abraham Badru, son of Enitan Badru, a member of the house of representatives, has been shot dead in the UK.   Some of his neighbors who spoke with Evening Standard said Badru who had been to church earlier that Sunday was shot around…

The Federal Government has declared Friday, March 30 and Monday, April 2, as Public Holidays to mark the Good Friday and Easter Monday. The Minister of Interior, retired Lt.-Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau, made the declaration on Tuesday…

…Approves construction of Ketu-Agboyi link bridge, link roads Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday commissioned the Alapere Road and junction improvement works in Agboyi Ketu area of the State, with an assurance that his…

The general public has been warned in a statement released by The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Monday, to shun consumption of fruits ripened with calcium carbide. According to NAFDAC who…

The Federal Government has asked the Peoples Democratic Party to completes its apology to Nigerians by returning all the alleged funds looted from the public treasury during its 16 years in power. In a statement issued in Abuja on…

The senate has reintroduced the bill to amend the electoral act. It passed first reading after the short title of the bill was read by the clerk of the senate on Tuesday. The development comes after the reintroduction of the bill…

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31 states can’t survive without federal allocation The report of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on 36 states’ Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) has unmasked the financial strength of states, putting them in three…

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the national executive committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to consider reversing the tenure extension of the party’s national working committee (NWC) led by John Oyegun, chairman…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday said it had seized 159 million tablets of Tramadol at Apapa Port in Lagos. Director, Technical Services of the agency, Mr Femi Oloruntoba, made this known at a public hearing…

The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced that it will carry out an annual maintenance of its equipment at the Itire 132KV Transmission Sub-station in Lagos today (Tuesday) for four hours. The TCN said in a statement that…