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Chidinma admitted spiking late Usifo Ataga’s drink – Police DSP tells court
A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Olusegun Bamidele told the Lagos High Court that Chidinma Ojukwu, the suspected murderer of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, admitted to spiking late Ataga’s…
BREAKING: Fourth Mainland Bridge construction begins first quarter 2024 — Sanwo-Olu
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday, said the construction of the long-awaited Fourth Mainland Bridge would begin in the first quarter of this year, “by the end of March or April.” The governor…
Naira hits record low of N1,410 /$1 at the black market
Naira on Thursday fell to a record low of N1,410 per dollar following strong demand on the parallel market, also known as the black market. This represents 3.29% or N45.00 weaker than N1,365 recorded at the close of…
Real Madrid Take Top Spot In Football’s ‘Money League’
Real Madrid have climbed to the top of football’s ‘Money League’ as the Spanish side surpassed Manchester City to become the highest revenue-generating club in 2022-23. For the first time since 2017-18, Real are in…
Sell Crude Oil To Dangote In Naira – Arewa Youths Tell Tinubu
The Arewa Youth Ambassadors (AYA), a coalition of Youth groups in the 19 Northern states has weighed in on supply of crude oil to Dangote Petroleum Refinery (DPR). At a press briefing Wednesday in Abuja, the group’s…
I Collected $30m For Helping Gov’t Recover $300m – Afe Babalola
Legal luminary and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Aare Afe Babalola, has revealed some of the big legal fees he has charged from clients, saying on one occasion, he got $30million for helping the government recover $300m from…
“I’m not too impressed with your last match” – Tinubu tells Super Eagles ahead of Cameroon tie
Honourable Minister of Sports Development, Sen. John Owan Enoh, has revealed that President Bola Tinubu said he was not impressed with the performance of…
Sanusi backs relocation of CBN units, departments to Lagos
Former Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has supported the relocation of some departments of the apex bank from Abuja to Lagos. He said it was right thing to do, dismissing those against the…
NDIC, FIRS to spend N8.7 billion on software acquisition in 2024
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) are planning to spend a combined sum of N8.7 billion on software alone this year. This spending is captured in the…
BREAKING: Supreme Court affirms Fubara as Rivers Governor
The Supreme Court has affirmed the election of Siminalayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as Rivers Governor. In unanimous judgment on Thursday, a five-member panel of the court held that the appeal by…
U.S. charges ‘Jesus Online’ Atlanta church pastor for swindling dozens of Nigerians in…
A Nigerian pastor, Prosperity Moore, is facing four counts of criminal charges by the United States. Securities and Exchange Commission for scamming several Nigerians residing in the U.S. of $1.4 million under the…
NNPCL, FG will now remit dollar revenue to CBN – Cardoso
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited and the Ministry of Finance have agreed to remit all their dollar revenues to the Central Bank of…
Subsidy removal increased FAAC disbursement by 29% to N15.1 trillion in 2023
The disbursement from the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) to the federal government, states and local government in 2023 reached N15.1 trillion representing an increase of 29.05% when compared to the…
‘N570m fraud’: Ex-HoS Oyo-Ita awarded government contracts to companies she owns, says EFCC witness
Hamma-Adama Bello, an official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says Winifred Oyo-Ita, a former head of service (HoS), awarded government contracts to companies she owns or retains…
Why Pantami Annoyed Some Persons In Buhari’s Cabinet – Fashola
A former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has explained why a former Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, was annoying to some people in the immediate past…
Japa: 975 Stranded Nigerians Returned From Niger Republic In 2023
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says it repatriated 975 stranded Nigerians from Niger Republic in 2023. The NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, disclosed this in an…
Ruling In Israel’s Gaza Genocide Case For Friday
The UN’s top court said it would hand down its landmark ruling on Friday in the case against Israel over alleged genocide in Gaza, a verdict likely to be watched closely around the world. The International Court…
NIS gives two weeks for passport production after online application
The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Wura-Ola Adepoju, says it will take two weeks between the point of…
Court restrains IGP, DSS from withdrawing security details attached to Rivers lawmakers
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, gave an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the Inspector-General (I-G)…
For Netanyahu Will Be The Pebbles
Twelve years ago, when I visited England for the first time, one of the tourist attractions I visited was Madame Tussaud’s wax museum. I’d heard about the place way back in my school days because our neighbours and…
War: Houthis orders U.S, British nationals to leave Yemen
Yemen’s Houthi authorities have ordered the United States and British staff of the United Nations and Sanaa-based humanitarian organisations to leave the…
Meet Babatunde Sobowale, the 61-year UNILAG’s DLI overall best student
Samuel Ullman said, “You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” This best depicts Babatunde…
Foreign investors’ patience with Cardoso wears thin as reforms stall
Foreign investors’ patience with Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is wearing thin over his reluctance to discontinue the apex bank’s punitive bank rules and raise market interest…
Police speak on explosion in Abuja, allay fears of bomb blast
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has debunked reports of a bomb blast in the Maitama District of the territory on Wednesday. In a statement by its spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, a superintendent of police,…