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Following the threat allegedly issued by Boko Haram that they would re-abduct the Dapchi schoolgirls released on Wednesday if they went back to school, the parents of some of the freed girls have said that they would not give up on the…

The Director General of Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, yesterday revealed the process that culminated in the release of 105 of the 111 girls abducted from a secondary school in Dapchi, Yobe State on February 19,…

Embattled Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has written the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to intervene in the rough relationship he is having with police officers. Mr. Melaye said he was ready to submit himself to the…

Adebayo Shittu, minister of communications, says he is entitled to estacode as a public servant, wondering why Victor Oluwadamilare, his former aide, attempted to castigate him over it. Describing Oluwadamilare as satanic, Shittu…

The Police Service Commission (PSC) said on on Friday that two assistant superintendents of police (ASPs) have received ultimate disciplinary action for gross misconduct, while a deputy commissioner was promoted to full…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday extended condolences to the Abebe family as well as the government and people of Edo State on the death of Dr. Christopher Abebe, who died at 99. The deceased was the father of former President…

…condemns NBA’s extreme actionOn behalf of the teeming members of the Lagos Peoples’ Assembly, spread across the nooks and crannies of Lagos State, we commend the efforts of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to position Lagos State as a…

The federal high court, Abuja, has freed Sylvester Ngwuta, a justice of the supreme court, standing trial for corruption. Ngwuta is accused of receiving bribes and is standing trial for a 13-count charge at the court. His house…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday hosted the released Dapchi schoolgirls at the Presidential Villa. The girls, who were freed on Wednesday, were airlifted to Abuja aboard a military plane from Maiduguri, Borno state capital.…

President Muhammadu Buhari has announced that he would not hesitate to punish security chiefs if any case of abduction is recorded in any part of the country. Buhari has directed the security chiefs to beef up security around all schools.…

Fire gutted a section of Binukonu Ultra Modern Market, Ojota in Lagos in the early hours of Friday, destroying goods and property worth millions of Naira. According to reports, this is the third fire incident at the market in three years.…

Lawrence Kolawole Alawode popularly known as Ekpo, a Nigerian Police Officer attached to the Oyo State Police Command, reportedly died a day before his promotion letter was released. According to online sources, the Nigerian Police…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday expressed his readiness to offer amnesty to members of the Boko Haram terrorist group that are ready to surrender their arms. Buhari made the declaration at a meeting he had with the…

The supreme court has dismissed an appeal filed by Rotimi Akeredolu, governor of Ondo state, on the primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in the state. Akeredolu had challenged a July 20017 judgment of the…

Some Nigerian federal lawmakers are demanding bribes as conditions for passing the 2018 budgets of federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), some heads of these agencies have told PREMIUM TIMES. The officials say the…

Deputy Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu, has sold two of his three properties in Kissimmee, Florida, United States of America. The properties, which were recently exclusively reported by SaharaReporters as owned by him, are…

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting the girls who were abducted from their school in Dapchi, Yobe State. They were released on Wednesday. The girls’ parents are also attending the meeting holding inside the Press Gallery of…

The Lagos State House of Assembly has announced it will hold a public hearing on the reviewed land use charge next week Tuesday, March 27. The hearing date was fixed following the second reading of the bill by the lawmakers on the…

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday declared that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission lacked the powers to declare anyone wanted without first obtaining a court order for that purpose or charging the…

Dr. Christopher Abebe, former boss of the United African Company (UAC) and father of Stella Obasanjo, former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s wife, is reportedly dead. In a statement released by his son, Dr. John Abebe, who is also the…

•Court dismisses kidnap kingpin’s application to quash charges A LAGOS High Court in Igbosere yesterday adjourned till May 7 for the arraignment of suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, on two…

THE House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee to curb Excessive Electricity Charges being levied on consumers by distribution companies (Discos) yesterday said it would meet with community development associations (CDAs) in different…

The Minister of Environment, Alhaji Ibrahim Jibril, says the Nigerian Customs Service has intercepted elephant tusks and pangolin, worth about N1.2 billion, between Feb.15 and March 22. The minister, represented by Malam Shehu Ahmed,…