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The Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP) has  recovered over N4 billion and $7 million cash as well as physical assets believed to have been illegally acquired, its chairman, Mr Okoi Obono-Obla,…

Activist lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has said that it is the right of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to support any presidential candidate of his choice. Reacting to his recent endorsement of the presidential candidate of the…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo is lobbying US authorities to withdraw the entry ban reportedly placed on Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In 2017,…

Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he picked Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, as his running mate for 2019 elections, because he has a vast knowledge of the economy. In a…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has questioned Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over his change of assessment of Atiku Abubakar, noting that he had once indicted the 2019 PDP…

The Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on Friday picked former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, as his running mate in the 2019 general elections. It was gathered that Mr Atiku made the choice…

Nigerian singer, Olawale Ashimi, popularly known as Brymo, has accused the North and the South-West of playing "ludo" with the Nigerian polity since 1960. He has also queried the zoning of the presidency to the North by some political…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday signed an executive order directing Nigerian taxpayers to voluntarily declare and pay tax on their offshore assets. The new executive order No. 8 is tagged Voluntary Offshore Assets…

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised that his administration must render accounts of what comes into the coffers of government as well as what goes out.President Buhari who stated this on Friday when he received the leadership of…

In what can be described as a response to the fourteen (14), posers raised by the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, was on Friday disclosed to newsmen by the Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir…

China’s trade surplus with the United States ballooned to a record $34.1 billion in September, despite a raft of US tariffs, official data showed Friday, adding fuel to the fire of a worsening trade war.Relations between the world’s two…

An aircraft belonging to Overland Airways ATR aircraft caught fire at the company’s hangar at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos on Friday. The fire broke out as the aircraft was being serviced.…

A former minister of information, Jerry Gana, on Thursday, called for review of the presidential primary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in which he was defeated by a former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke. Duke…

Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, has said that it is criminal to sponsor people to Hajj and other pilgrimages with government’s funds. He made the assertion at the two-day Northern Nigeria Traditional Leaders Conference on…

Barely 128 days to the 2019 general election, Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has faulted Professor Kingsley Moghalu, presidential candidate of the Young Progressive Party (YPP), on his lack of…

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has not issued certificate of return to any candidate after its primary elections across the country, Mr. Yekini Nabena, acting national publicity secretary of the party, has said. Nabena made this…

Jose Mourinho is a winner and stands alongside Manchester United legend Sir Alex Ferguson in a top three of the best bosses of the last 25 years, says Michael Carrick. The Portuguese has seen his ability to continue generating…

President Muhammadu Buhari has identified making Nigeria better as a singular objective and warned sternly that the government would deal with those toying with the unity of the country. President Buhari spoke about the nation’s…

The National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has dissociated itself from a Ponzi scheme, which was recently ascribed to it and is currently trending on the social media. The NAICOM spokesman, Mr Abdulrasaq Abdulsalami, said in a…

Unions in the aviation sector have called off their two-day industrial action at the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2 (MMA2). The strike was called-off following the signing of an agreement by the union leaders and Bi-Courtney Aviation…

Kanye West and former American football player Jim Brown visited US President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday. West, a supporter of Trump, engaged the president on a number of social issues. The Chicago rapper talked…

Festus keyamo, spokesman of the reelection campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari, has asked Nigerians not to join ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in receiving the curse he allegedly invoked on himself over former Vice-President Atiku…

Alhaji Muhammad Ribadu, Senatorial candidate, Gombe North Senatorial District under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has relinquished his candidature to Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe state. Ribadu stated this in…

Two eminent jurists, Prof.  Itse Sagay (SAN) and Prof. Akin Oyebode yesterday expressed divergent views on former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of his one-time deputy, Atiku Abubakar, for president. In separate telephone…