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Nigerian ‘tech queen’ Sapphire Egemasi is facing more than 20 years’ imprisonment in prison after the FBI arrested her for defrauding several U.S. government agencies of millions of dollars. Federal Bureau of…

Two high courts of the federal capital territory (FCT) have separately summoned Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, deputy chief whip of the senate, over allegations of sexual harassment,…

Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah has forwarded an Executive Bill to the Enugu State House of Assembly to curb criminal activities…

Nigerian boxing icon Obisia Nwankpa, popularly known as “Golden Gloves,” has died at the age of 75. He passed away in the early hours of Tuesday, 3 June…

The Ondo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Akure, the state capital, has dismissed all petitions challenging the election victory of…

The Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has expressed the need for Nigerians to stop medical tourism and for the country to also start producing drugs locally.…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has declared that the 2027 general elections will serve as a referendum on the failures of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government. The party criticised the APC…

….Resolves to rebuild flood-ravaged community THE Federal Government has assured the people of Mokwa in Niger State that it will stand by them in the aftermath of the devastating floods that recently swept through…

The Department of State Service (DSS) has clarified that it is not interested in arresting anyone over the proposed “shadow government” initiative led by Prof. Patrick Utomi, the 2007 African Democratic Congress (ADC)…

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, has said that there will be no hiding place for those threatening the peace and stability of Nigeria. Abubakar gave the assurance during the Second Quarter…

The federal government says it will impose tough sanctions on any federal university that establishes a satellite campus without prior approval of the minister of education. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa,…

Suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (Kogi West) has raised the alarm that her official telephone line has been cloned and is being fraudulently utilised to intimidate some Nigerian dignitaries. In a petition to…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared two individuals, Folashade Odelana and Bamidele Ayodele Abiodun, wanted in connection with a multi-million-naira cryptocurrency fraud linked to Crypto…

The Chairperson of the Epe Local Government Area in Lagos State, Surah Animashaun, has suspended the installation of a new Olu of Epe following a dispute over the…

A former governor of Rivers State who served between 2017 and 2015, Rotimi Amaechi, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would not have won the 2015 Nigerian elections if the current chairman of the…

The Department of State Services (DSS) has asked a federal high court in Abuja to restrain Pat Utomi, a professor of political economy, from further making public comments or staging rallies to promote his shadow…

President Bola Tinubu is mounting a calculated charm offensive to repair the fallout from his controversial Muslim-Muslim ticket and blunt the…

The telecom operators in Nigeria, including MTN Nigeria, Airtel, Globacom and 9Mobile have threatened to withdraw network support for banks’ Unstructured Supplementary Services Data, USSD, following what they described…

THE naira yesterday depreciated to N1,620 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,610 per dollar on Monday.But the Naira appreciated to N1,579 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM). Data…

In a daring and surprise raid, tactical teams of the Department of State Services (DSS) with back up from the Nigerian military, have eliminated no fewer than 45 bandits around Kuchi town, Munya LGA, Niger State. The…

Nigeria’s natural gas export sector has recorded a milestone, with volumes reaching their highest level in 15 months. This surge, driven by…

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has inducted a new generation of professionals following a transparent, merit-based recruitment process, hailed as a landmark achievement in Nigeria’s public sector. The…

…Decry perceived govt silence Disturbed by the ceaseless attacks by armed herdsmen in their communities, hundreds of women, yesterday protested in Ugbokpo, the headquarters of Apa Local Government Area of…

A coalition of Gbagyi stakeholders in Kaduna has criticised former governor Nasir El-Rufai over what it described as self-serving attacks on President Bola Tinubu. Speaking at a press conference in Kaduna, Benjamin…