You stand in for me at very crucial times – Buhari tells Garba Shehu
President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, who turns 60 on Nov. 27. The President’s…
Yari paid himself over N300 million, left N10bn debt – Gov. Matawalle
Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara state has said that he will use savings from the state’s repealed pensions law for youth empowerment and development of…
Trump shares photoshopped image of boxer
U.S President Donald Trump has shared a photoshopped image of himself on his favourite social media platform, Twitter, dressed up as a boxer, with trunks…
Nigerian Nnamdi Marcellus Mgbodile charged in Atlanta with $6.5m romance scam
Nigerian Nnamdi Marcellus Mgbodile, living in Marietta, Georgia, United States has been arraigned on twenty counts of bank fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to…
Nigeria’s Debt to GDP ratio below average – IMF
The IMF Senior Resident Representative and Mission Chief for Nigeria, Mr Amine Mati has said Nigeria’s debt to GDP ratio which the IMF projects to be at 28 percent, has increased but still below the average…
Drama as Melaye submits more petitions to INEC, demands postponement of Kogi West supplementary poll
There was a mild drama on Wednesday as Senator Dino Melaye alongside leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi West Senatorial District, stormed the headquarters of the Independent National…
47 arraigned for ‘gay sex relations’
THE Police in Lagos, on Wednesday, arraigned 47 men before Justice Mohammed Aikawa of a Federal High Court Lagos, for allegedly engaging in amorous gay sexual…
Saraki Raises the Alarm as EFCC Moves to Seize His Ilorin House
The former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described the move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to file another process in the Federal High Court, Lagos, in which it is…
HIV prevalence dropped to 1.4 per cent in 2018 – NACA
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has said the prevalence rate of the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) in Nigeria reduced from 4.4 per cent in…
Using Google map while driving is a serious offence, says FRSC
Ayuba Gora, sector commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the federal capital territory (FCT), says driving with the aid of Google map is a serious traffic offence. Gora…
Steel Operators Hail Border Closure, Say Smuggling Stifling Sector
Steel sector operators have applauded the recent closure of Nigeria’s land borders, saying until the federal government took the action, the sector was on the brink of extinction.They urged the federal government…
NCoS suspends nine personnel over alleged Lagos inmate’s $1m scam
The Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB) has approved the suspension of three senior officers and six other ranks of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS)…
British Airways Abuja-bound flight loses engine after takeoff, returns to Heathrow
An Abuja-bound British Airways flight BA083 which departed London Heathrow Airport on Tuesday night made an air return when the aircraft lost one of its engines. The aircraft was already airborne when the pilot…
FG to fix roads for festive period
The federal government has expressed readiness to fix bad portions on various roads across the country. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, spoke on the issue while fielding questions from State…
Twitter to delete inactive accounts — starting December 11
Twitter has announced that it would be deleting inactive accounts on its platform to free up usernames if their owners don’t log in before…
FG to publish names of actual owners of oil and gas companies Dec 12
Waziri Adio, executive secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), says the federal government will publish the beneficial ownership…
JUST IN: Matawalle assents law banning payment of jumbo allowances to Zamfara ex-governors,…
Zamfara State Governor, Bello Muhammad Matawalle, on Wednesday signed into law a bill banning the payment of jumbo allowances to former governors, their Deputies, ex-Speakers and other past political…
‘North may rule Nigeria forever’ – Doyin Okupe
Former spokesperson on Public Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe hinted that the North may rule Nigeria forever. He stated this in reaction to the…
Zlatan Ibrahimovic now partial club owner
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is shedding football for entrepreneurship as he acquired roughly 25 percent of the shares in Stockholm-based football team Hammarby, the club said Wednesday.…
Ex-Lagos Speaker’s ‘N673m money laundering’ case starts afresh Dec 11
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday rescheduled till December 11, the re-arraignment of a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, and…
My wife sleeps with my younger brother – Man tells court
An Ibadan-based businessman, Mr Saheed Eniola, on Wednesday told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan that his wife, Kafayat, was caught at different times sleeping with his…
Onyema opens up on purported sponsored human rights case
Chairman, Air Peace Limited, Allen Onyema has dissociated himself from a purported sponsored human rights case filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja on his behalf.…
How I was kidnapped, extorted by policemen – Fashion designer
A Lagos fashion designer Joseph Ejiro has taken to social media to narrate how policemen attached to Festac Division kidnapped, tortured and fleeced him of N190,000.…
After spending 36 years in prison, court declares men not guilty of murder charge
Three men in Baltimore, United States, who spent 36 years in prison were found innocent on Monday, November 25, of the 1983 murder of a teenage boy who was shot dead over a jacket. Alfred Chestnut,…