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State governors have accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of fraudulently doubling the nation’s daily petrol consumption from about 30 million to 60 million litres. The governors made this known on Wednesday…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the lawmaker representing Akwa Ibom North-East senatorial district, Senator Bassey Akpan,  for allegedly receiving vehicles worth N303m from oil magnate, Babajide Omokore, who is…

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday night said he would rather vacate his office as the nation’s Number Two man than compromise his Christian faith.Osinbajo stated this while responding to posers raised by some Christian leaders at…

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A Plateau high court has remanded Jonah Jang, senator representing Plateau north senatorial district, in prison. Jang, who has been in custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), since May 7, was arraigned before…

The police have confirmed the transfer of suspects linked to a string of killings in Kwara State to Abuja. But police spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, said the transfer was not because of Senate President Bukola Saraki. He, however,…

The Senate has set up a nine-member committee to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari on an allegation that the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, is trying to implicate the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.The lawmakers arrived…

On Sunday, March 18, the Israeli police arrested three senior officials of Israel Shipyard on charges of bribing government officials in Nigeria. The company’s Vice President for Marketing, Oded Breier, was one of the suspects…

Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has granted fresh bail to former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki, who is re-arraigned before the court on the alleged arms fund diversion. Mr…

The national assembly finally passed the 2018 budget on Wednesday, about six months after President Muhammadu presented it. In November, Buhari had proposed N8.6 trillion as the appropriation for the 2018 fiscal year, with N3.5…

Imohimi Edgal, commissioner of police in Lagos state, has directed all area commanders and divisional police officer in Lagos to prosecute any medical practitioner who rejects gunshot victims on the grounds of the lack of police report.…

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…