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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,…

STATES are to get the cash they spent on federal roads, it was learnt yesterday. President Muhammadu Buhari dropped the hint during his visit to Zamfara State after Governor AbdulAziz Yari’s request for the refund of the N56 billion…

A former governor of Delta state, James Ibori, who spent years in UK prison after pleading guilty to money laundering in Britain, yesterday launched an appeal against his conviction, alleging corruption in the ranks of British police.…

…Dino can’t distract me – Yahaya Bello Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello on Thursday reacted to a video of Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West, saying he has been roundly defeated and cannot do anything. Dino Melaye. in the…

Like a sewer rat fleeing the onslaught of an unrelenting charwoman, the controversy-prone businessman, Jide Awotedo is running hither, thither  as you read.  Now that comeuppance stares him in the face, the dark menace of retribution…

Two bills seeking to stop the concession of Ajaokuta steel company scaled second reading at the house of representatives on Thursday. They include a bill for an act to provide for the Ajaokuta Steel Company completion fund and a bill…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday visited Zamfara State as part of the fulfilment of his sympathy tour to troubled states. President Buhari on arrival was welcomed by Governor H.E. Abdulaziz Yari and other top government…

Trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday closed on a positive note after dropping for six consecutive days, with the All-Share improving by 0.33 per cent. The index rose by 138.36 points or 0.33 per cent to close at…