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Combat ready policemen have laid siege to the Sangha Street, Maitama, Abuja residence of ‎Senator Dino Melaye. Melaye had in a hushed tone notified ‎our correspondent of the siege on the telephone at 1:43 pm. The security…

Nigerian Senator representing Sokoto North Senatorial District, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, who was also Sokoto State governor between 2007 and 2015, has reacted to allegation that he misappropriated N18billion with Senator Rabiu Musa…

A yet to be identified Nigerian has been killed in South Africa. Local media reported on Sunday that he died in Rustenburg after his vehicle was set ablaze by unknown persons. The South African police confirmed the incident but…

Dino Melaye, lawmaker representing Kogi west senatorial district, has been released hours after he was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.

Diaspora Nigerians wired $22 billion home in 2017, an African record and the fifth largest remittance by immigrants, according to the World Bank. Egypt received $20 billion from its citizens abroad, according to figures published by…

The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has confirmed the arrest of Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west. Melaye was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Monday morning. The lawmaker was on his way…

The U.S. says it will in 2020 deliver the 12 Super Tucano fighter jets and other weapons it agreed to sell to Nigeria to combat Boko Haram insurgents and other extremist groups. A senior U.S. Department of State official made the…

Bamikole Omishore, a media aide to Senate President Bukola Saraki, has declined to confirm or deny reports that he fleeced the public treasury using his wife as a ghost worker. The Punch newspaper reported earlier on Sunday that Mr…

A magistrate’s court in Ekpoma, Edo State where two former students of Ambrose Alli University (AAU) were arraigned in August, 2012, on eight counts charge bordering on alleged conspiracy, stealing, unlawful detention and frivolous…

Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo came under fire last weekend, during the 80th posthumous birthday for Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), in which Soyinka, Falana, former Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole, Lagos State Governor…

The Senator representing Kogi west in the Senate, Dino Melaye has just announced that he has been arrested at Abuja international airport on his way to Morroco for an official engagement.. See his tweet below…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, and Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Sunday gave reasons why they were absent at the US-Nigeria Investment Summit 2018 in Washington DC. The duo said the summit…

Miracle is the winner BBNaija 2018 reality TV show. Miracle wins BBNaija 2018 star prize of N25million cash, N20million in prizes. Cee-C is the first runner up Big Brother Naija 2018. BBNaija 2018 finalists were Nina, Alex …

Son of Gani Fawehinmi, the late human rights lawyer and activist, Muhammed Fawehinmi, has mentiond that he awaits the death of former military dictator, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, and former President, Olusegun Obasanjo…

Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha made a new disclosure while addressing newsmen in Owerri on Saturday. According to him, in order to take part in various activities in Imo State, including receipt of salaries, civil servants must get…

The Anambra police command says it has arrested three masqueraders for allegedly disrupting a church programme in Idemili north local government area of the state Nkeiruka Nwode, spokesman of the command, told journalists on Saturday…

The National Chairman of the United Progressives Party, UPP, Chief Chekwas Okorie, has reminded Ndigbo that President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, never promised to hand over power to them in 2023. Okorie…

No fewer than 15 residents of Victoria Garden City, Ajah, on Lekki-Epe Expressway are to be prosecuted for their alleged involvement in energy theft,  Eko Electricity Distribution Company  said on Friday. EKEDC alleged that the…

At least five persons have been killed in a Boko Haram attack in Bama, a town in Borno state. Many worshipers also sustained injuries in the attack which happened around 5:30am. Ali Abacha, an official of the Nigerian Security and…

The Special Adviser on International Relations to Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Bamikole Omishore,and his wife, Abiola Aiyegbayo-Omishore, are currently under probe by the EFCC over an alleged ghost worker scam. The spokesman for…

Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has approached the Supreme Court, seeking to upturn the judgment of the Appeal Court in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, permitting the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to freeze his…

The father of Leah, the only Dapchi school girl still being held by the Boko Haram terrorists, Mr. Nathan Sharibu,  on Saturday, debunked the rumours making rounds that his daughter had been released. In a telephone interview with our…

President Buhari has paid tribute to Nigeria’s foremost social critic and selfless legal luminary, Chief Abdul Ganiyu ‘‘Gani’’ Fawehinmi, SAN, on his posthumous 80th birthday, describing the late legal icon ‘as a true conscience of the…

In what looks like a move by the government of Uganda to drive up the revenue of the country, social media users will start paying tax to the government, starting from July 2018. In making the announcement, Uganda’s government…