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The much expected governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party came to an end on a peaceful note on Tuesday with the Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Kolapo Olusola, emerging the candidate of the party.He defeated his closest…

A billionaire Kano businessman and Islamic scholar, Isyaku Rabiu, is dead. According to reliable sources who spoke to the News Digest, the cleric passed away after a brief illness in the United Kingdom. He was aged 90 years. A…

The atmosphere at the Greater Eagle Hall, Ado Ekiti, capital of Ekiti state, is tensed up at the moment as Dayo Adeyeye and Kolapo Olusola, the two aspirants seeking the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the July 14…

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Ogun State, Aremo Segun Osoba and a select group of APC leaders from the South West are locked in a secret meeting at the Lagos State…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has scheduled another governorship primary election in Ekiti state for Friday. Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesman of the party, disclosed this to reporters in Abuja on Tuesday. The primary election…

The Senate may have concluded arrangements to impose fresh sanctions on suspended Delta Central senator, Ovie Omo-Agege, over his alleged role in the invasion of the Senate chamber by thugs. This is coming as the upper chamber…

The house of representatives has adjourned Tuesday’s plenary without laying the 2018 appropriation bill for passage as earlier promised. Last week, Abdulrazaak Namdas, spokesman of the lower legislative chamber, said the 2018 budget…

Jude Okeke, a judge of the federal high court, Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to pay N180 million to Samuel Okutepa, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), being his professional fee. Okeke, who delivered…

A batch of 218 Nigerians has voluntarily returned from Libya where they had been stranded en route Europe. The returnees, which included seven pregnant women, arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at 3.44 a.m.…

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), and six others as members of the board of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation. Keyamo is to represent Delta State on the board. President of the Senate,…

The abuse of drugs among youth has become a disturbing trend in Nigeria. This recently led to the federal government’s ban on codeine as an active pharmaceutical ingredient for making cough syrup.There is little information on how many…

Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), says prosecutors must be able to prove their cases beyond a reasonable doubt because the court is not Father Christmas. Onnoghen said this on Monday while speaking at a workshop for…

Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, says even if Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, is pretending, he cannot pretend forever. Dogara said this while addressing state house correspondents after a meeting…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says Nigeria spent $36.3 billion on the importation of petroleum products between 2013 and 2017. Speaking on Monday at a public hearing organised by a house of representatives committee, the apex…

Shehu Sani, chairman, senate committee on local and foreign debt, has advised Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, to use the “meagre” resources available to run the state. In an interview with NAN on Monday, the senator wondered why…

Forbes list billionaire, Warren Buffett has lost $1.14 billion of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock in the first quarter making it the company’s first net loss since 2009. The loss was caused by new accounting-rule changes made in…

Ali Soyode, an industrialist and founder of Europe’s first ethnic media and satellite Television, BEN TV, has declared intention to run in the 2019 presidential election. Mr Soyode, who made the declaration on Monday in Abuja, said…

Ahmed Lawan, leader of the senate, has said that the fight against drug abuse in the country should be prosecuted the same way the fight against insurgency is being handled. The leader made this known in an interview…

Saboi Mundia Kalinda who traveled to India last month with her husband, Haswell Kalinda, for a liver operation, has thanked him for donating part of his to her . According to Saboi, It is amazing how God revealed to her and her…

A Lagos-based lawyer, Udeme Odibi, who allegedly stabbed her husband, Otike Odibi, to death, at their residence on Diamond Estate, Sangotedo, Ajah has allegedly confessed to the murder. According to the Lagos state police, the…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to Babatunde Fashola (SAN) Minister of Power, Works and Housing, asking him to use his good offices and leadership position “to…

The crisis rocking the Ekiti state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) took a different dimension on Monday as police sealed the party’s secretariat. The protesters, who claimed to be sympathetic to the aspiration of…

Jide Omokore, a business associate of Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former minister of petroleum resources, has denied stealing $3 billion in connivance with the minister. Laolu Akande, spokesman of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, had…

Nigeria’s drugs and narcotics control agency, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Monday sealed off three major pharmaceutical companies – Emzor Pharmaceuticals Ind. Ltd., Peace Standard…