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Youth restiveness, mass poverty: Ijebu monarch doles out N50, 000, N100, 000 soft loans

  …300 trained in vocational skills   In a bold step towards addressing youth restiveness, idleness and mass poverty, a traditional ruler in...

Royal father punished for unroyal public conduct, disrespect to colleagues 

   Embattled Oluwo of Iwo in Osun State, Southwest Nigeria, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, was on Friday suspended for six months for misconduct...

Four Civil Defence Corps officers abducted

    … N30m ransom being negotiated for their release   Again, gunmen who have been on the prowl in Kogi have kidnapped...

Ogun Gov seeks transfer of Sagamu, Ikorodu, Ota roads to state

  Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun on Thursday sought the transfer of Shagamu to Ikorodu road, Epe to Ijebu-Ode road, Lagos -Ota-Abeokuta to...

Uzodinma seeks Buhari’s intervention in refund of N32bn

  Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, Thursday met with President Muhammadu Buhari, seeking his intervention in the refund of over N32 billion his...

Slain Aso Rock Director of Administration for burial on Feb. 21

  The assassinated Laetitia Naankang Dagan, Assistant Director of Administration in Presidential Villa, Abuja,will be buried in Jos, Plateau State on Friday, February...

Nonplussed traffic wardens watch helplessly as deer-footed thief disappears with their loot

    It was a wild goose chase for a police traffic warden whose bribes collected from motorists were spirited away by a yet-to-be apprended...

Human Rights Abuses: Lagos NBA deploys lawyers to police stations for free legal services

  In a bid to check human rights abuses by the police, rhe Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Lagos State branch, says it is...

FG declares DisCos have failed, to decide fate soon

  The Federal Government has declared that Distribution Companies (DisCos) have failed in distributing power across the country. The Federal government also disclosed...

Buhari appoints Professor Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei acting MD NDDC

  President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the enlargement of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from three...

Commonwealth Secretary-General Condemns Killings in Cameroon

  The Commonwealth Secretary-General has denounced the killings in north-west Cameroon on 14 February which left 23 people dead, the majority of them...

British Airways, Delta Airlines’ diverted flights: Stranded passengers return to Lagos by road

  Some Nigerians and other passengers whose flight were diverted to Ghana following poor visibility caused by haze at the Murtala Muhammed International...

2.5bn laundering: Magu wants Diezani extradited to face trial

    For allegedly plundering Nigeria’s whopping $2.5 billion, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani K. Alison-Madueke, should be extradited to face trial without...

Northern Nigeria gradually destroying itself, warns Emir Sanusi

    ….says quota system favouring the region has sunset clause A foremost traditional ruler in the country has  raised the alarm that...

Buhari vows to secure release of all captives of terrorists

  President Muhammadu Buhari pledged a new national effort to secure the release of children and all captives of terrorists, on the second...

Protesters storm Abuja APC National Secretariat, want Oshiomhole sacked

    Anti-Adams Oshiomhole protest has shut down the national secretariat  of the All Progressives Congress (APC), demanding the sack of the embattled...