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Osinbajo like Awolowo, his in-law, walking the tight presidential rope

The luminosity of the solar-powered streetlights had welcomed Persecondnews team to the serener Ikenne, a congenial atmosphere pervading the entire town, home to...

Breaking: Lai Mohammed’s son denied APC ticket for third term bid in Lagos Assembly

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, appears to be losing political grounds in Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s camp as his son,...

Breaking: ex-President Jonathan eligible to contest in 2023, court rules

The coast is now clear for former President Goodluck Jonathan as a Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa has ruled that he...

Just in: APC guber primaries: Omo-Agege, Abiodun, Sanwo-Olu emerge candidates

Senate Deputy President Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege has emerged the Delta state governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 general...

Finally, EFCC closes in on ex-Gov. Okorocha, arrests him amid sporadic gunshots

    After about seven hours after laying siege to Sen. Rochas Okorocha’s house in Maitama area of Abuja, operatives of EFCC eventually...

Just in: Ex-Imo Gov. Okorocha’s Abuja residence under EFCC siege

In a tactical strike to arrest him, the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have swooped on the Abuja residence...

We will waste Abuja-Kaduna train abductees unless our demands are met, threaten terrorists

With the time ticking, restive terrorists who attacked and kidnapped passengers on the Abuja-Kaduna train two months ago, have threatened to kill all...

BREAKING: ln one fell swoop, Rivers Gov. Wike sacks commissioners, other cabinet members

  Just a year to the end of his tenure, Rivers Gov. Nyesom Wike, has sent packing members of the State Executive Council...

Breaking: Nwabuoku appointed Acting Accountant-General of the Federation

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr Anamekwe Chukwunyere Nwabuoku as the acting Accountant-General of the Federation. Nwabuoku is to oversee the Office of...

Just in: Abducted Anambra lawmaker beheaded

A lawmaker in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Okechukwu Okoye, who was kidnapped last week, has been beheaded by some unknown gunmen....

Danish national’s daredevil stunts finally end in disaster, to be hanged in Lagos for killing wife, daughter

A dare-devil Danish national, Peter Nielsen, who smothered his wife and three-year-old daughter in the wee-hours in 2018, has a date with the...

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Just in: Pres. Buhari departs Abuja for UAE on condolence visit, felicitations to new President

President Muhammadu Buhari will later  on Thursday fly to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to meet the new President of the country, His...

BREAKING: Two days after Patricia Etteh’s arrest, ex-NDDC MD, Nsima Ekere, picked up by EFCC

Barely two days after the arrest of Nigeria’s first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, for NDDC contract...

Just in: : EFCC busts Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, with N80bn fraud

The Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Ahmed Idris, was on Monday arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged...

BREAKING: Sacked EFCC boss, Magu, elevated from CP to AIG

Police Commissioner Ibrahim Magu, the sacked Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),  has been promoted to the Assistant Inspector-General of...

Saudi Aramco’s quarterly profit up 81% to $40bn

  The world’s largest oil producing company, said first-quarter net profit surged about 82 per cent on higher oil prices as well as...