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West Virginia Republican voters will decide Tuesday if they want an ex-con coal baron as their US senator, even though President Donald Trump himself has warned the candidate is too radical to prevail in November’s mid-term elections.…

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) spent eight years as head of state at Aso Rock. He pledged at different times in his regime to return power to “the people”. But he never did. Somehow, he always found a way to dribble himself out of the…

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), and six others as members of the board of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation. Keyamo is to represent Delta State on the board. President of the Senate,…

The abuse of drugs among youth has become a disturbing trend in Nigeria. This recently led to the federal government’s ban on codeine as an active pharmaceutical ingredient for making cough syrup.There is little information on how many…

Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), says prosecutors must be able to prove their cases beyond a reasonable doubt because the court is not Father Christmas. Onnoghen said this on Monday while speaking at a workshop for…

Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, says even if Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, is pretending, he cannot pretend forever. Dogara said this while addressing state house correspondents after a meeting…

The legal battle surrounding one of Nigeria’s most lucrative oil blocks, OPL 245, will shift to Nigeria on Tuesday when a federal high court is billed to hear a case filed by the Human Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA), a civil…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says Nigeria spent $36.3 billion on the importation of petroleum products between 2013 and 2017. Speaking on Monday at a public hearing organised by a house of representatives committee, the apex…

Shehu Sani, chairman, senate committee on local and foreign debt, has advised Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, to use the “meagre” resources available to run the state. In an interview with NAN on Monday, the senator wondered why…

Forbes list billionaire, Warren Buffett has lost $1.14 billion of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stock in the first quarter making it the company’s first net loss since 2009. The loss was caused by new accounting-rule changes made in…

Things get more “shady” even after the recently concluded BigBrother Naija: Double Wahala reality show for Bambam and Teddy A. Bambam and Teddy, whose love sparked while they were in the house, were the cause of jeers from fans and…

Not less than 22 All Progressives Congress’ governorship aspirants have signed a petitioned to the National Chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun, as well as leaders of the party, stating fresh conditions for a repeat of the…

Ali Soyode, an industrialist and founder of Europe’s first ethnic media and satellite Television, BEN TV, has declared intention to run in the 2019 presidential election. Mr Soyode, who made the declaration on Monday in Abuja, said…

A video that shows a three year old girl twerking with money tossed at her at a birthday party has sparked outrage. Location where the birthday party happened and video shot from is not exactly known at the moment but there are…

Ahmed Lawan, leader of the senate, has said that the fight against drug abuse in the country should be prosecuted the same way the fight against insurgency is being handled. The leader made this known in an interview…

Big Brother Naija first runner-up, Cee C and Davido’s girlfriend Chioma are cuties. Check them in new photos from Abuja today.   Cee c has been in Abuja since her trip to FIRS last week. Chioma and her man, Davido earlier on…

A Nigerian man, Chukwuebuka Nnaemeka Chukwuemeka, has said he doesn’t mind his children bearing his wife’s surname as well as identifying with her roots. According to Chukwuemeka, who is a language editor at Oxford University Press as…

Saboi Mundia Kalinda who traveled to India last month with her husband, Haswell Kalinda, for a liver operation, has thanked him for donating part of his to her . According to Saboi, It is amazing how God revealed to her and her…

A Lagos-based lawyer, Udeme Odibi, who allegedly stabbed her husband, Otike Odibi, to death, at their residence on Diamond Estate, Sangotedo, Ajah has allegedly confessed to the murder. According to the Lagos state police, the…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC has preferred three charges against the suspended Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mounir Gwarzo. In the charge marked…

Real Madrid are certain Cristiano Ronaldo will be fit for the Champions League final, and have not ruled out the possibility of him playing in La Liga again this season, Goal reports. The Portuguese was withdrawn at half-time of…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information (FoI) request to Babatunde Fashola (SAN) Minister of Power, Works and Housing, asking him to use his good offices and leadership position “to…

The crisis rocking the Ekiti state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) took a different dimension on Monday as police sealed the party’s secretariat. The protesters, who claimed to be sympathetic to the aspiration of…

Jide Omokore, a business associate of Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former minister of petroleum resources, has denied stealing $3 billion in connivance with the minister. Laolu Akande, spokesman of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, had…