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Of late, the British Broadcasting Corporation has not scored a single goal against Nigeria but we have scored four. Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed, was the fourth Nigerian that I took note of...
View ArticleG7 countries commit $382m to averting famine in North-East –Envoy
G7 Countries have made commitments of $382 million US dollars to immediately avert the looming famine in Nigeria’s North East and to tackle its root causes, according to Catriona Laing, the British...
View ArticleWorld number one Barty to face Pliskova in Wimbledon final
World number one Ashleigh Barty of Australia and eighth seed Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic won in the women’s singles semi-finals at the Wimbledon Championships on Thursday. The 25-year-old...
View ArticleNigeria has no housing deficit, says Fashola
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday said that there was nothing like housing deficit in Nigeria. Operators in the built environment as well as government officials had...
View ArticleAlleged kidnapping: I fainted because of hunger, says man after two-month...
A middle-aged man, Basoene Wariboko, who spent about two months in a cell after being arrested by operatives of the anti-kidnapping unit of the police in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on trumped-up...
View ArticleDefections: PDP must hold members together, says Makinde
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has said the Peoples Democratic Party must do everything to hold its members and chieftains together following the gale of defections which hit the party. Makinde said...
View ArticleEFCC arraigns Rivers doctor over alleged N2.1m job scam
THE Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a medical practitioner, Dr Eze Ekwealor, over suspected employment scam to the tune of N2,180,000. A...
View Article14-year-old’s death: Police summon activist ahead of FCT mass protest today
• Autopsy result didn’t indict us, says school The controversy surrounding the death of Keren Akpagher, a student of the Premiere Academy in the Lugbe area of Abuja, took a new twist on Thursday, as...
View ArticleReps to meet police on SEDI DG, Ndubuisi’s murder
The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Police Affairs to liaise with the Nigeria Police Force to “investigate, apprehend and prosecute” those who assassinated the Director-General...
View ArticleReps demand FG support for Abuja IDPs
THE House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, recognise Durumi and New-Kuchingoro Camps as camps for the Internally Displaced Persons in Abuja and provide...
View ArticleCourt to decide AGF takeover of ex-gov Ohakim’s case Sept 27
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday fixed September 27 to decide on the application brought before it by the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice to...
View ArticleReps fault FG report on Kebbi farmers’ registration
The House of Representatives, on Thursday, faulted the Federal Government over the number of farmers said to have been registered in Kebbi State under the ongoing nationwide registration. The House...
View ArticleBuhari-Must-Go protesters drag DSS, Enenche to court, to storm Dunamis Sunday
The leader of Take It Back Movement , Damilare Adenola, has vowed that his group and other protesters would storm the headquarters of Dunamis Church in Lugbe, Abuja on Sunday if the detained...
View ArticleTwitter Ban: ECOWAS Court merges four suits against FG, adjourns till Sept 29
The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States has made an order consolidating all the four cases brought before it by different applicants against the Federal...
View ArticleWorkers stranded as FIRS seals NDDC headquarters in Rivers
This is certainly not the best of times for the Niger Delta Development Commission, as its corporate headquarters in Port Harcourt, was reportedly sealed by the Federal Inland Revenue Service. The...
View ArticleMass burial: Time running out for abandoned corpses of 99 children, 25 adults...
•Hospital slashes mortuary bills, begs families to claim bodies •Why parents, relatives abandon corpses in morgueS –Experts Abandoned 124 corpses at LUTH mortuary risk mass burial unless relatives...
View ArticleFAAN owes MMA2 over N200bn, says Bi-Courtney
Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, operator of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos Terminal Two, says the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria owes the company over N200bn. This was said in a...
View ArticlePolice ask court to dismiss FUOYE VC’s suit
The Police Special Fraud Unit has asked the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos to dismiss a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by Professor Abayomi Fasina, the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal...
View ArticleFG, G7 launch N59.9bn North-East hunger prevention programme
The Federal Government, in collaboration with the World Bank and the G7 countries, on Thursday, launched the famine prevention programme for the North-East. The G7 countries, comprising Canada, France,...
View ArticleI don’t need scandals to be popular –Mo Bimpe
Personalities in the movie industry are not strangers to controversies and scandals. However, actress, Adebimpe Oyebade, better known as Mo Bimpe, has said she likes to stay off that ‘zone’. In an...
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