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War against cultism: Lagos Police nab 19 suspects at Alakuko
In its relentless war to rout cultists and other bandits, the Lagos State Police Command on Monday captured 19 suspected cultists during...
N7bn corruption charge: Reprieve as ex-Gov. Kalu’s retrial halted by Abuja court
A former Abia Governor, Orji Kalu, on Monday got a reprieve as a Federal High Court in Abuja temporarily halted his re-trial...
Thieving pastor bolts with Winners’ Chapel’s $90,000 and N4.5m, bags 36 months in jail
For snitching Winners’ Chapel’s $90,000 and N4.5 million, a pastor/accountant of the church at the headquarters, Ota in Ogun, Afolabi Samuel, is...
NNPC makes $108.84m Crude Oil, Gas Export Sales, ₦8.71bn surplus in November 2020
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it recorded export sales of crude oil and gas for November 2020 to the tune...
SERAP flays World Bank’s $500m electricity fund approved for Nigeria
The $500 million funds approved to improve access to electricity in Nigeria between 1999 and 2020 has drawn the ire of the...
U S. Pres. Biden’s endorsement of Okonjo-Iweala for WTO DG excites Buhari
The United States endorsement of Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director-General’s position...
Lagos Police Commissioner’s Special Squad smokes out cultists, bandits from hideouts, nabs five
A special strike force of the Lagos State Police Command has whupped some criminals after a successful smoking of some black...
Nigeria receives 16m doses of COVID-19 vaccines
Contrary to some media reports, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says about 16 million AstraZeneca doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been received...
Herdsmen killings: ECOWAS Court reserves judgment in SERAP’s suit against Buhari administration
The suit filed by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) against the Federal Government for its failure to prevent, account for...
Fashion designer bags four months of community service for Cybercrime
By Boye Ajayi A 32-year-old, Oyelakin Babatunde, a self-acclaimed fashion designer, has been sentenced to four months of intensive community service for...
Breaking: Tragedy: Ekweremadu slumps, dies
A former Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, has lost his elder brother, Chief Mathias Ekweremadu, the Enugu State Commissioner for Transport....
Retired IG-P Adamu’s tenure elongation: An illegality, breach of Police Act, Constitution — Senior lawyers
President Muhammadu Buhari’s elongation of the tenure of retired Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, for three months has received a swipe...
Breaking: Buhari rewards Buratai, Olonisakin, other ex-Service Chiefs with ambassadorial jobs
Barely two weeks after their retirement, the five immediate past Service Chiefs have been nominated as non-career Ambassadors-designate. Well-meaning Nigerians, governors and...
Breaking: Retired IG-P Adamu gets 3-month tenure elongation
Mr Mohammed Adamu, who attained retirement age on February 1, 2021, has been given three months tenure extension as the Inspector-General of...
Faisal, Maina’s son, jumps N60m bail, bolts to U.S.
Faisal, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, who is standing trial alongside his father, for laundering pensioners’ money to the tune of billions, has...
United Nations says eating less meat can help reduce risk of pandemic
The United Nations Environment Programme says eating less meat can help reduce the risk of a pandemic, and also save the environment....
