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All appears not to be well with Polaris Bank Limited, a bridge bank created by the Central Bank of Nigeria to take over the assets and liabilities of the defunct Skye Bank as shareholders of the defunct bank have reportedly…

The custody battle between Rahma Indimi and Muhammad Babangida continues to drag. Yesterday, the daughter of Indimi took to her Instagram to accuse her ex-husband, the son of Former Nigerian Military President, Ibrahim…

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Redemption Party, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has said despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure, he was still better than the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic…

A 14-year-old barber’s daughter, Miss. Gloria Ajala yesterday, emerged the One-day Lagos Governor after winning the 2018 Spelling Bee competition. She is a secondary school 3 student of Lafiaji Senior High School, Lagos Island and she…

A third video of the Kano state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje allegedly receiving bribe in dollars has emerged. Two videos showing Governor Ganduje allegedly receiving bribe had been previously released, which prompted an…

The Presidential candidate  of the Social Democratic Party, Donald Duke, says he earned a combined sum of N5, 618, 419 between 2015 and 2017.Duke stated this in his tax certificate with serial number 290664, which was attached to his…

The death of a 400-level student of the Department of Microbiology, University of Lagos, Adeniyi Ogundijo, has continued to generate controversy.While some claimed that the 22-year-old committed suicide over poor performance in his…

The Lagos State Police Command has given a one month grace to motorists for the regularisation of vehicle documents.The Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti, in a statement on Tuesday, said the command had suspended the…

Operators of Private Support Partnership (PSP) and other stakeholders have sought the termination of Visionscape Sanitation Solution Limited contract with Lagos State government. This resolve was made while the committee…

A cross-section of owners at Horizon Premier-1 Estate in Lekki, have dragged Lekki Gardens Estate Limited, and Managing Director of the company, Richard Nyong, to a Lagos High Court over the alleged distortion of the estate…

The Federal Government has generated a total of ₦1.16billion through the rail system of transportation in the first and second quarters of 2018. This was revealed by the Railway Sector Report released by the National Bureau…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday said it would be difficult to implement the section of the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018 that recommended electronic voting if the president signs it into…

Mo Ibrahim, the chair of Mo Ibrahim Foundation, has said that three out of four Africans are living in better governed countries today than they did 10 years ago. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ibrahim said this at…

The Nigerian army says three members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) were killed after they attacked troops deployed to a checkpoint at Kugbo/Karu bridge in Abuja. The army said four soldiers were wounded in the…

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) on Tuesday in Abuja challenged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to disprove Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s clarification of the country’s past and present debt profile. The organisation…

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja lamented that despite the huge resources at the disposal of Nigeria between 1999 and 2014, infrastructure became rotten within the same period. Special Adviser to the President…

Ghanaian football star, Asamoah Gyan has filed for divorce from his wife, Gifty Gyan, at the Divorce and Matrimonial Division of the High Court, Accra. It is gathered that the footballer is seeking a dissolution of his…

Dear Bunmi,Since my husband became close to his sister-in-law, I’ve felt very insecure. Her husband (my husband’s brother), sadly passed away about a year ago and since then, my husband has bent over backwards to help her – he…

THE Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit, PICA, has revealed that some of the workers and pensioners of the defunct Nigeria Airways engaged multiple verifications in the just concluded exercise.PICA informed that the discovery…

In a tragic incident, an Indian couple died after falling 800 feet in an area with steep terrain in California’s Yosemite National Park this week, according to a media report, NDTV reports. Vishnu Viswanath, 29, and Meenakshi Moorthy,…

Nigeria’s Presidency has condemned negative prophecies by some Nigerian Pastors. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha who spoke on behalf of the Presidency, said the country needs genuine prophets to stand on…

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Tuesday agreed to pay a national minimum wage of N22,500 from the existing N18,000. The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul’aziz Yari disclosed this while…

The Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris has placed all Commissioners of Police on red alert over the activities of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). A statement by the Police Force spokesman,…

Organised Labour gave indications on Tuesday that the outcome of the ongoing controversies about the new national minimum wage will largely impact on the 2019 general election, saying the N30,000 they are currently insisting…