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*How He Secured A Multi-Billion Naira Loan To Finance The Revival Of Moribund Government-Owned NITEL and Yola Disco  + How government’s refusal to honour contractual agreements ran him into monumental debt It wouldn’t be hyperbolic to…

Can Ambode Get a Second Term Without Tinubu’s Approval? (Naij.com )

The late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola was arguably the richest Nigerian of his time. A brilliant mind with impeccable antecedents, Abiola was a tycoon and the biggest philanthropist in Africa. He was an African pillar with…

Chelsea’s Eden Hazard wants his reputation as one of the world’s great players to be based on titles rather than goal records as he embraced being put on the same pedestal as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Hazard scored what…

The naira has been firming up in the last few days as politicians pumped stockpiled dollars into the economy for campaigns, The Nationhas learnt. The naira, which exchanging at N361 to dollar early last week, firmed at N357 in the…

Senate President Bukola Saraki has narrated how the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was disrupted on Sunday. TheCable had reported that the PDP cancelled its guber primary following a confrontation…

Senator David Dafinone is dead. He died yesterday morning in Lagos. He was 91. Dafinone was a Senator in the Second Republic from 1979-1983. He was chairman of the board of trustees  of the Nigerian International Biographical Center,…

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chinedu Eya, has declared that Lagos residents were prepared to re-elect Governor Akinwunmi Ambode if the latter could simply dump the All Progressives Congress (APC).The governor is…

The All Progressives Congress in Oyo State on Sunday held its governorship congress at the Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan, with former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria,  Adebayo Adelabu, emerging the party’s governorship…

President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the resignation of Aisha Alhassan as Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development. Garba Shehu, the presidential spokesman, stated this in a statement on Sunday, where he noted that the…

AMERICAN Express said it decided to remove Nigeria from its blacklist and return its card services to Nigeria in recognition of the huge number of honest Nigerians angling for its services. Meanwhile, UP, also known as Unified Payments,…

Chief Sunny Okogwu, the Ojise of Asaba and elder brother to Maryam, late wife of former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, is dead.The Kaduna-based businessman and philanthropist reportedly died in a hospital in Abuja of an…

Nigerian rapper, Olamide, has thrown his weight behind the second term ambition of Akinwunmi Ambode, Governor of Lagos State, under the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ambode, who is currently embroiled in internal party crisis on his…

The Lagos APC governorship primary is set to be moved again following the intervention of the national secretariat in the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party, TheCable understands. Akinwunmi Ambode, the governor, is being…

Hundreds of desperate people in the tsunami-struck Indonesian city of Palu looted supermarkets and petrol stations Sunday, as an initial trickle of aid into the devastated area failed to relieve an acute shortage of water, food and…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is conducting statewide primaries to choose its governorship candidates in 27 states this Sunday. Today will bring a verdict for hundreds of political gladiators who have been lobbying to get the…

The battle for the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State is clearly between a billionaire businessman, Tonye Cole, and Magnus Abe, a senator representing Rivers South East District. Mr Abe has,…

We see different things even when we are looking at the same picture. When CBN asked MTN to return the $8.1 billion dividends it “illegally” repatriated between 2007 and 2015, I was not thinking about MTN or CBN. Rather, my mind was on…

Some few days backs, photos of Tonto Dikeh and Tiwa Savage kneeling before veteran Juju music maestro, Sir Shina Peters at an event surfaced on the internet and immediately generated mixed reactions. However, while speaking with …

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has not endorsed any aspirant for the governorship ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos state. Akinwunmi Ambode, the incumbent governor, and Babajide Sanwo-Olu, a former…

Gov’s insistence on primary foils Sanwo-Olu’s adoption as consensus candidate Support group condemns call for governor to step down Osinbajo did not endorse anyone As high-wired intrigues continue to play out in Lagos State…

Tinsel star actress, Damilola Adegbite has hinted that she might write a book about her crashed marriage to Ghanaian star, Chris Attoh, to give her fans first hand information on what transpired between the duo. In a chat with …

Love is a beautiful thing but some emotions can be mistaken for love. Sometimes, in hindsight, we may sigh, beat ourselves up, and shake our heads when we remember the people we dated or thought we loved in the past. To avoid such…

Tennis superstar Serena Williams caused an internet sensation Sunday by posing topless for a video while singing “I Touch Myself” to raise awareness for breast cancer.In the Instagram video, Williams covers her breasts with her hands…