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No fewer than 11 persons were trapped under a three storey building which collapsed in Nnewi, Anambra in the early hours of Thursday. The building was located in Okpuno, Otolo, in Nnewi North Local Government Area of the state.…

*Case against Senate, its President withdrawn The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has evaded the trouble of being subjected to trial for contempt as he conceded to the request for the payment of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’s withheld…

In the masterpiece, satiric comedy, The Trials of Brother Jero, Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, captured religious hypocrisy in the form of a con, or fraud, named Brother Jero, who preaches to his followers on Bar Beach in Lagos.…

Nigeria moved up 10 places in the Global Competitiveness Report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday. Africa’s largest economy moved from its 2017 spot of 125 to 115. According to the report, national…

Three officials of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) were on Thursday arraigned in an Abuja high court for allegedly misappropriating $9.5 million and N1. 3 million. The defendants are Christopher Andekin, NFF director of…

Senator Dino Melaye representing the Kogi West senatorial district, on Wednesday, said Governor Yahaya Bello was planning to kill him. Melaye alleged that information at his disposal points that the governor was planning to kill him…

The Nigerian Governors Forum says it is not against the upward review of the minimum wage.The Chairman of the Forum, Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, said this while briefing journalists on the outcome of the forum meeting held…

Igbo leaders in Lagos APC said on Wednesday that voting for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential elections would hasten the chances of Igbo clinching the presidency in future.The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the…

Prison inmates who have been on death row for long in Zimbabwe, are now waiting to die because executioners have not been found in the country. There has been no execution in the country since 2005, and according to the Death Penalty…

A notorious cultist and ex-convict, Ibrahim Oriyomi Balogun (AKA Small Jpron), whom the police have accused of carrying out multiple murders around Somolu and Bariga areas of Lagos, has been killed. Jpron, the leader of Eiye cult…

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His Unending Hatred for Dapo Abiodun Multiple Sins As Governor It is no longer news that Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State toyed with the idea of decamping from the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Accord Party as he was…

The Economic and Financial Crimes  Commission, EFCC, today arraigned a 35 years old suspected fraudster, Abiola Kayode Malik and his company  MIKA Resources Nigeria Limited before a Federal High Court, Lagos on a four-count charge of…

Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, has been thrown under the bus. He will not serve a second term in office not because the people of Lagos state rejected him in an election but because his godfather, Bola Tinubu, pulled the…

Ahead of today’s deadline for the submission of presidential and National Assembly candidates by political parties to Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams…

MANY of us had resigned ourselves to the second term of Muhammadu Buhari as President, until the emergence of Abubakar Atiku as candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. A year ago, whenever I peered into the…

The Zone 6 Police Headquarters, Calabar, Cross River State capital, was turned into a mini-carnival yesterday, as “investors” in a Swiss Gold Ponzi scheme turned out to get a glimpse of the scheme operator, Mrs. Lizzy Efa, arrested…

Arsene Wenger has indicated he will be back in football management at the start of 2019, but he did not disclose where it will be.I believe that I’ll start again on January 1,” he told the German newspaper Bild . “I don’t know yet where…

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari has approved six transaction parties to advise the federal government on the issuance of $2.78 billion Eurobonds and other securities at the…

Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun yesterday restated his opposition to the candidature of Dapo Abiodun. Abiodun is the candidate approved by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), but Amosun…

Suspected cult leader in Oworonshoki, Lagos, Kayode Ojo, has been arrested for alleged threat to kill a Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ifeanyi Owo, a Chief Superintendent (CSP). Ojo, said to be the leader of the Vikings in the…

The federal government has approved the implementation of no work, no pay principle when workers go on strike. The federal executive council (FEC) issued the approval during its weekly meeting in Abuja on Wednesday. Chris…

The senate has approved the $2.786 billion loan request of President Muhammadu Buhari to finance the 2018 budget. The upper legislative chamber also approved $82.54 million to refinance the balance of $500 million…

The calm that reigned in the Senate since its return from recess last week was shattered yesterday. Senator Godswill Akpabio called for the reconstitution and restructuring of the upper chamber — in line with the numerical strength…