Bill seeking life imprisonment for kidnappers scales second reading at senate
A bill seeking stricter punishment for kidnapping, wrongful restraint and wrongful confinement for ransom has passed second reading at the senate. The bill proposes life imprisonment…
Parallel Market Apprehensive Of Clampdown As More Nigerians Hoard Dollars
Currency traders are becoming wary of keeping dollars with them as websites such as Abokifx.com which publish latest foreign exchange rates used by street traders have stopped…
N924m Debt: Court To Hear AMCON Case Against Ex-Super Eagles’ Captain Nov 11
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Lagos will on November 11 hear a suit filed by the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) seeking to recover an…
COVID-19 Eroded 20% Full-Time Jobs In 2020 – NBS
Twenty percent of the full-time workforce in Nigeria lost employment during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a new report has revealed. This was revealed in a report titled: “The Impact…
Police Apprehend ‘Yahoo Boy’ Over Attempt To Slaughter Girl For Ritual
Operatives of the Bayelsa State security outfit, Operation Doo-Akpo, yesterday apprehended yahoo boy in Ogobiri community in Sagbama local government area of Bayelsa State over alleged attempt to…
SA Seizes Mercedes From Mbuso Moloi Who Looted Groceries During The Riots
The basket of goods that 30-year-old Mbuso Moloi was filmed looting from the Woolworths store in July, could have cost no more than 500 rands (14,000 naira) had he paid for it but the…
How Buhari’s Successor Should Emerge – Northern Elders
Northern elders gave an indication of how a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari should emerge in 2023. Spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba Ahmed,…
UK Police Seek Information On Nigerian Boy Killed For Ritual In London
UK police on Tuesday appealed for fresh information two decades after the torso of a suspected Nigerian young boy believed to have been killed as a “human sacrifice” was found in the…
2023: Ceding Presidency To North Dangerous For Nigeria’s Unity – Sagay
Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has thrown his weight behind the resolution of Southern Governors’ Forum…
Dapo Abiodun Visits Bola Tinubu In London (Photos)
Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun, paid a visit to APC national leader, Bola Tinubu, in London on Tuesday September 21, IgbereTV reports. See photos below
Stop abusing leaders over the country’s challenges – Sanusi tells Nigerians
Muhammadu Sanusi II, the former Emir of Kano and leader of the Tijjaniyya adherents in Nigeria, has advised Nigerians to desist from “cursing or abusing” their leaders. The…
Telcoms shutdown cut off contact between bandits, informants in Katsina – Masari
Aminu Masari, Katsina governor, says the measures his administration put in place to tackle banditry in the state are already yielding results. Masari spoke on Tuesday when he…
El-Rufai Mocks Southern Govs, Says Anti-Open Grazing Law Not Implementable
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has described the anti-open grazing law promulgated by some southern governors as not implementable. He accused the southern governors of…
Banditry: Northern Youths Support Telecoms Shutdown
Northern youths have backed the decision to shut down telecommunications networks in some local government areas in some states of the North West aimed at containing…
Despite Huge Reserve: Nigerians Groan As Cooking Gas Price Keeps Soaring
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or cooking gas is now beyond the reach of average Nigerians as many have turned to charcoal or firewood. A kilogramme of cooking gas is now…
VAT: Uncertainty over Supreme Court hearing of Rivers, Lagos case
Seven days after the Rivers State Government dragged the Federal Inland Service before the Supreme Court challenging the order by the Court of Appeal directing parties to maintain status…
Tax digital transactions, Buhari orders FIRS
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the deployment of technology to tax digital transactions carried out across the country. Boss Mustapha, the secretary to the government of the…
Senate President gives Committee a week to consider Buhari’s loan request
The Senate has begun legislative work on President Buhari’s request for approval of Multinational Fund Projects under the 2018 -2021 Federal Government External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan.…
Lagos Assembly mourns late Hon Risikat Adegeye
The Lagos State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, mourned the passing of a former member, Hon. Risikat Adegeye. This was as the Speaker, Rt. Hon. (Dr) Mudashiru Obasa described her…
Measures against banditry in Katsina yielding results ― Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said the measures introduced by the Katsina State government to address the menace of banditry and sundry crimes are…
North will continue to rule Nigeria regardless of who’s president – Akintoye
Yoruba Nation arrowhead, Prof Banji Akintoye, says the north will continue to rule and dominate Nigeria regardless of whoever is in power as President. He spoke from Benin…
Kaduna’s N10bn Cattle Ranch Will Be Ready In Two Years – El-Rufai
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, on Tuesday, said the state has embarked on a N10 billion cattle ranch project to centralise all herders in Kaduna. El-Rufai, who…
Zulum Suspends Borno Poly Management After Surprise Visit To Alma Mater
Governor Babagana Zulum has suspended the entire management of the state- owned Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri, for a period of six months. Zulum was a student of the Polytechnic…
Sarki Auwalu, Others Appointed Into Petroleum Regulatory Board
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a board for the Board of the Upstream Regulatory Commission. The President in another letter to the upper chamber also sought the…