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The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, has queried the professor who was allegedly accused of demanding sex to upgrade a female student’s poor result. The university also appealed to the student to…

The Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit, in Lagos Wednesday said it had seized 98 bags and 570 parcels of Indian hemp with duty paid value at N74.4 million. The agency said the drugs were coming from Togo and Ghana and a…

The federal executive council (FEC) has approved N47 billion for the repair of three roads. The roads to be rehabilitated are Baban Lamba-Sharam road in Plateau state, Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta and Enugu-Port Harcourt road. Speaking with…

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, has told US lawmakers that he was among the 87 million users of the platform whose data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, a consultancy firm. Appearing before the lawmakers on…

Investors and shareholders were left confused on Wednesday after Oando’s shares were placed on technical suspension again after an announcement that it had been lifted. The shares had been placed on technical suspension during…

The wife of OAU lecturer, Professor Richard Akindele the male voice in the leaked sex-for-mark audio which emanated from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife on Monday, has denied the allegations against him, saying the devil is out to…

AIT newscaster, Lara Owoeye-Wise, shared the direct message she got from a former OAU student who alleged that the accused lecturer, Professor Richard Akindele, had asked her friend for sex when she was his student 20 years ago.…

President Muhammadu Buhari has explained why he declared his intentions to run for another term in office on Monday, April 9, 2018, during the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He…

The vice chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University has finally reacted to the scandalous reports of one of its professors requesting an exchange of sex for pass marks. In a statement personally signed and released to the public, on…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, in London. Also present at the meeting were George Oguntade, Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the UK and Josiah Idowu-Fearon, a prominent…

The Ogun State governor, Sen. Ibikunle Amosun has declared that his successor would be a woman and ‘a whiz kid’. The Governor’s declaration apparently shocked members of his cabinet who were with him at a World Press conference to…

An alleged Closed Circuit Television footage of the Offa Bank Robbery in Offa, Kwara State, has surfaced on the internet. On Thursday last week, gunmen numbering about 30 had stormed the town and engaged in a robbery operation that was…

The Congress of University Academics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, and the National Association of Nigerian Students have called for investigation into the alleged sex-for-mark scandal against a lecturer of the…

The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, says it is worrisome that the older generation is refusing to leave the scene for the younger generation.Onaiyekan, who is a former President of the Christian Association of…

A Nigerian lawmaker, Foster Ogola, has taken his spot on the infamous list of prominent Nigerians with certificate scandals attached to their names.…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has charged the Managing Director of Heritage Bank Plc, Ifiesimama Sekibo, and five others before the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja for an alleged fraud of N1bn. Sekibo was charged along…

The Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI) has debunked reports that its chairman, Theophilus Danjuma, has resigned. Head of Media and Communications of the Committee, Alkasim Abdulkadir, made this known in a…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered N28billion from tax defaulters for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Executive Chairman of the FIRS Babatunde Fowler stated this when he led a delegation to…

NIGERIAN Financial Intelligence Unit’s (NFIU) expulsion from the Egmont Group was never on the agenda of the group’s last meeting in March, it was learnt yesterday. This is contrary to media reports prior to the meeting held in…

•Presidency: looters behind it SOME Nigerians living in London yesterday protested against President Muhammadu Buhari. The protesters stormed the Abuja House in Kensington London, where the President is staying, blaming him for…

Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina has described as a `misquote’ the report that President Muhammadu Buhari had pledged only one term presidency and will never seek re-election in view of his age status. President Buhari, 75, had on…

A middle aged housewife, Umma Bashir, on Tuesday dragged her husband, Ibrahim Bashir, to a Sharia Sourt II at Magajin Gari, Kaduna State for renting out her bedroom without her knowledge. The complainant told the court that her…

Multiple music award winner, Innocent Idibia, has announced his entrant into politics. He, however, did not reveal under which political platform and at what level he would be seeking to actualise his political aspiration. Idibia…

The next edition of the Big Brother Nigeria reality show should be hosted in Nigeria, says Adedayo Thomas, executive director, National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB). Thomas, in an interview with NAN on Tuesday, expressed…