CBN, EFCC may bar culprits from opening bank accounts
Officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria and their counterparts in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission met on Thursday, with the aim of strengthening the country’s fight against economic crimes.A statement from the…
Card reader malfunctions at Sanwo-Olu polling unit
Voting has yet to begin at Lateef Jakande/Femi Okunnu polling unit in Ikoyi where the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, is expected to vote.The delay is as a result of a…
SENATE PRESIDENCY: Ahmad Lawan On The March
With the conduct of February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections and the results declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the next stage of battle and permutations would be who becomes…
APC Omitted From INEC Results Sheet in Zamfara
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed regrets over the omission of the acronym of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the results sheet for Saturday’s Governorship and House of…
Don’t Waste Money On Tribunal – Guru Maharaji Advises Atiku
Founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, has joined the party counselling, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, against going to court to challenge the outcome of the…
EFCC arrests Kwara accountant-general over ‘N1.5bn vote buying’
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested Suaiman Ishola, accountant-general of Kwara state, for allegedly setting aside N1.5 billion for vote buying. A source at the commission…
Ojukwu speaks on Buhari’s victory, apportionment of Igbos
Mr Emeka Ojukwu jnr, Son of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to be magnanimous in victory and appoint Igbos in strategic positions during his second term. Ojukwu jnr made…
President Trump says former attorney Cohen lied, asked for a pardon
U.S. President Donald Trump is accusing his former personal attorney of again lying under oath, saying Michael Cohen personally asked him for a pardon. He said that had put the credibility of the lawyer back under…
Presidential poll: Buhari, Atiku set for epic legal battle
The main opposition candidate in the just concluded presidential election, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, will launch a strong legal challenge against President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling APC over allegations of…
To Atiku, an open letter
I met with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Saturday, 27th January 2018, at his residence in Asokoro Abuja, exactly at 1:57pm, after a scheduled appointment from Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, (Talban Minna), former governor of…
Football Coach, Leonel Alvarez Sacked For Sleeping With His Star Player, Edgar’s Wife (PHOTOS)
A top football manager has been sacked after sleeping with his star player’s wife, it has been sensationally claimed. Paraguayan club Libertad de Paraguay have fired their head coach Leonel Alvarez despite winning…
Otedola Celebrates International Women’s Day With Photo Of His 3 Daughters When He Was Poor
Otedola was not always a billionaire as you are seeing today, he was once a commoner like everyone else, but he has always had his family at all times, today he celebrates international women's day with his three daughters, Tolani, Florence…
Polls: Military jets, soldiers take over Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Kwara, Adamawa
There was palpable panic among residents in some key states of the country on Friday as the Nigerian Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance jets began air patrols over perceived flashpoints in the North-East,…
KWARA: Saraki at the precipice, Abdulrazaq sails on
The conclusion of last presidential and National Assembly polls has inevitably recast the political permutations in Kwara State.Elections: New commissioner of police deployed to BenueThe long political domination of…
GUBER RACE: Upsets, surprise loom
How Governors may emergeIn politics, anything can happen. Or who would have imagined that the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, regarded as political warlord and kingmaker in his state, Kwara would lose an election to return…
Anxiety, Fear Grip Voters As Election Holds For Governorship, State Assembly Seats
Security agencies in the country are believed to be in possession of intelligence purporting that political parties vying for seats in the nationwide governorship and state assembly elections today have drawn up demographic maps…
At 85, God Has Given Me Everything – Subomi Balogun
Otunba Subomi Balogun is the founder of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Group and Olori Omoba of Ijebuland. Balogun, an accomplished banker and philanthropist, who also is the head, Christain laities in…
Olanipekun, Osinbajo’s brother, Keyamo, 15 others to defend Buhari’s victory
A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), will lead the legal team assembled by President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress to defend the President’s mandate in court, The…
We Have Resorted to Self-defence Because Ogun CP Can’t Protect Us – Osoba
Chief Olusegun Osoba, a veteran journalist and a national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), first governed Ogun State under the botched Third Republic between January 1992 and November 1993. Again, in 1999, he was…
Kwara Guber poll: Issa Aremu directs Labour Party supporters to vote for APC’s Abdulrazaq
The gubernatorial candidate of Labour party, LP, in Kwara State, Comrade Issa Aremu, has directed his supporters to vote for the candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in Saturday’s election.He…
Equity group tips Kalu for Senate presidency
As Nigerians await inauguration of the 9th Senate, following the near expiration of the 8th Senate, a pressure group, Movement for Justice and Equity/Solidarity for Election of President of Igbo Extraction has tipped the former…
A Hedge Fund Steps Into Nigeria’s $9 Billion Corporate Dispute
Nigeria potentially faces the largest financial liability in its history, and a hedge fund is coming to collect. The legal and political drama involves a deal between the country and a tiny natural gas…
UEFA explain controversial Champions League VAR calls
UEFA took the unusual step on Friday to explain a series of controversial Video Assistant Referees (VAR) calls in this week’s Champions League last 16 ties.European football’s governing body bowed to pressure by bringing forward…
Court sentences Lekan Shonde to death for killing wife
The Lagos State High Court on Friday sentenced Lekan Shonde to death by hanging for killing his wife, Ronke.Lekan Shonde, a depot worker in the Apapa area of Lagos State, was found guilty of the murder of his wife.PUNCH Metro…