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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to unveil its new N24 billion head office located along Airport Road, Jabi, in the Federal Capital Territory, on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. According to the anti-graft agency's…

• Asks Emzor to declare indicted sales rep wanted The National Agency for Food, and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) yesterday lifted the shutdown order on three pharmaceutical companies closed on May 7 for production of…

The national leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has urged the contestants to support the winner saying, “It is time for us to make history. Let us not squander this fine chance. We win by standing together.” According to him, “The…

Kayode Fayemi, minister of solid minerals, has won the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election in Ekiti. The former governor of the state secured the most votes in the rescheduled exercise held on Saturday.…

The Nigeria police have accused the senate of “playing politics” with the lives of Nigerians and attempting to prevent the course of justice. The police said the senate’s invitation of Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police, was…

The Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum says ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo and his fellow travellers took Nigerians for fools. The forum was reacting to a statement credited to Obasanjo. On Thursday, the ex-president said the All…

Mr. Adeoye Fadeyibi, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has unveiled the secret behind the so-called ‘crazy bill’ which has been one of the major areas of discord between…

A young banker, Mr Akinloye Ayegbusi, 44, has defeated a former ambassador to Canada, Dare Bejide, and others, to win the Social Democratic Party (SDP) ticket for the July 14 gubernatorial election in Ekiti State. The party held its…

Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, made an uncommon revelation during an interview on TVC, which he confirmed via his Twitter handle. According to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, he has not received any salary since he became…

A case of a missing person has been reported, and it is about a 6-year-old girl who was reportedly ‘stolen’ from the children section of a church in Abia State. According to the little girl’s aunt who lamented over the incident…

An Arizona woman, Jacqueline Ades, who broke into a Paradise Valley home, and reportedly sent tens of thousands of disturbing text messages to the man’s phone after the pair went on one date, was found in the Paradise Valley man’s bathtub.…

One of the arrested suspects of the Offa bank robbery  attack is a man identified  as Isiaka who is reported to be an ex SARS operative and was dismissed from the job for gross misconduct. A source, who is privy to the investigation,…

If there’s anything a Nigerian lady and mother of two identified as Uwaila Agbonson is happy for, it is her divorce from her husband, Emmanuel. The Nigerian lady who celebrated her divorce and even shared a photo, also went a…

We have just gotten another report of a househelp assaulted by her boss, and this time it happened in Lagos.  According to Facebook user, George Onmonya Daniel who shared the report, the househelp was beaten for not getting up early to take…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for citizens who registered in the Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) between April and December 2017 will be ready for collection on May 21.The…

soldier who used to drive President Muhammadu Buhari way back in the day has revealed some things about the man. When Corporal Tumba Garba (retd.) joined the Nigerian Army on July 21, 1965, two years before the start of the civil war,…

THERE is no gainsaying the running battle between the Senate and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, currently flickers on the front burner of  public discourse. The conflict assumed an interesting dimension when…

The political tension in the Imo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress deepened on Friday when unidentified hoodlums set the party secretariat on fire. Though the fire didn’t affect the external parts of the building, the…

The federal government has paid another set of 14 whistleblowers the sum of N439.276 million for providing tips on tax evaders. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, who briefed the press yesterday, in Abuja, disclosed that the…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said over 278 convictions of corrupt officials have been secured by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) between 2017 and first quarter of 2018. The President made the disclosure in…

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board generated a princely N8.453billion from the sales of forms to applicants seeking admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria in 2018, PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report. A top…

President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked the children of the late Islamic scholar and businessman, Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu, to build on the cherished legacies of gentlemanliness and friendliness of their father. President Buhari was…

An Australian grandmother on Thursday lamented the $480,000 (N173m), she lost to three different online scammers, who happen to be Africans. The  grandmother identified as Suzie admits to being ‘gullible’ and ‘brainwashed’ in the past…

The manager of Maydon Pharmaceutical company, Uchenna Okeagwu, on Friday, while testifying before the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, revealed that he paid he notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, 223,000…