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A Kogi state high court has granted bail to Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west senatorial district. At its sitting on Wednesday, the court granted him a N10 million and asked him to provide a surety. Nasiru Ajanah, the…

Senate President Bukola Saraki says Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP), is planning to implicate him. Speaking while presiding over plenary on Wednesday, Saraki said Abdulfatah Ahmed, Kwara governor, called him him…

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Wednesday said he would resign his appointment in a week. Fayemi, who is the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State spoke to State…

Lawmaker representing Delta Central Senatorial District, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, was at the Senate chamber this morning. He signed the attendance register and left. The lawmaker, who was absent on Tuesday when he said he was…

Facebook yesterday revealed that it has closed 583 million fake accounts in only the first three months of 2018, it was also revealed that those closures came on top of blocking millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day.…

A committee probing the alleged hack of President Muhammadu Buhari’s health records in the build-up to the 2015 elections has written the US and UK to demand information. The federal government had set up a committee after reports…

The House of Representatives has offered reasons why it jerked up the 2018 budget by about N500billion. Chairman, Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Mustapha Dawaki (APC, Kano) said the increment was made in order to tackle the…

The accountant general of the federation, Ahmed Idris, says the federal government has cleared the promotion arrears of workers in its ministries, departments and agencies. Idris, who was represented by Mohammed Usman, director of…

A member of the Eiye Confraternity, Azeez Idris, paraded by the Lagos State Police Command alongside 15 others, allegedly said whenever he puts on his red regalia it means that somebody must be killed.The state Commissioner of Police,…

Troops of 177 Guards Battalion while on raid operation at Ugya village in honeypot Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, destroyed some armed militia camp. The Spiritual Head of the militia group, one Angulu Idaku was also arrested.…

Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, has said  Commonwealth assisted Nigeria in recovering of about three billion dollars within one year. Scotland said this on Tuesday in Abuja when she visited the Minister of Foreign…

…to clear civil servants’ promotion arrears with N34.2bn The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Tuesday disclosed that the Federal Government would settle the inherited debts and contractual obligations to local contractors…

Sudanese police lashed a woman 75 times on Tuesday after a court found her guilty of marrying a man without her father’s consent, her lawyer and rights activists said. The woman, a native of the war-torn Darfur region, was flogged at…

Ekiti State Governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has asked former Governor Kayode Fayemi to stop bragging about the use of federal might to win the July 14 governorship election, saying God’s might is bigger than all. This is just…

Germany has proposed a new process that will facilitate the smooth repatriation of over 30,000 illegal Nigerian migrants back to the country. Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama said this when he received the Security…

There was panic in Jos, Plateau State capital, on Tuesday, following the outbreak of a suspected case of Monkey pox. Although the details of the case were still sketchy, our correspondent learnt that the fear of the disease became…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N10bn for the rehabilitation of communities destroyed during recent attacks in Benue State. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo disclosed this on Tuesday during his visit to two Internally Displaced…

THE presidency last night said that Nigeria was not present when the United States officially relocated its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday contrary to media report.A top Presidency official who spoke on the condition of…

Trust, honesty, and openness are all deeply crucial to maintaining a solid relationship. Buuuuut, sometimes you catch yourself pretending to love the kinda-dry chicken your partner cooked for you, or telling them you’re totally into…

An alleged illegal orphanage, Pro Labore Der (labour for God), at Agemowo village in the Olorunda Local Council Development Area, Badagry, was recently shut down by the Lagos State Government. It was also gathered that during the…

The Caucus of the All Progressives Congress at the House of Representatives has endorsed former Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, for the position of the National Chairman of the party. Oshiomhole and the lawmakers had met…

Saudi Arabia said that the Ramadan fasting will begin on Thursday across the globe, the official Saudi news agency SPA reported on Tuesday. The new moon of Ramadan was not spotted on Tuesday evening and Wednesday will mark the last…

President Muhammadu Buhari says his first attempt to fight corruption led to his removal from office. In 1985, Ibrahim Babangida, a former head of state, plotted a coup which led to the removal of Buhari, then a military head of…

The new Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), which was passed into law by the Nigerian senate on Tuesday, will make it possible to register a company from anywhere in the world. Speaking of the passage of the bill, Senate…