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N4.9bn laundering charge: Femi Fani-Kayode in EFCC net 

Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and new arrival in the All Progressives Congress (APC), has again been “invited” by the Economic...

CBN retains benchmark interest rate at 11.5%

  The monetary policy committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Tuesday retained the monetary policy rate (MPR), which measures interest rate,...

Oil prices near $80 as US set to release 50mn barrels of oil to ease energy costs

Oil prices steadied near $80 a barrel on Tuesday after the United States announced plans to release up to 50 million barrels of...

Baba Suwe Dead: Nigeria’s ace actor and comedian passes on at 63

Nollywood ace actor, Alhaji King Babatunde Ayinla Nurudeen Olasunkanmi Omidina, a.k.a Baba Suwe, Nigeria’s celebrated veteran comic actor, is dead. His death has...

Water truck crashes into Max Air plane at Abuja airport

  A water bowser truck collided with a Max Air jet on Sunday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe airport, Persecondnews.com gathered. The truck during approach hit...

President Biden to host US-Africa Leaders summit in Washington, DC

  President Joe Biden  will welcome leaders from across the African continent to Washington,DC capital for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit next year,...

Global health tops agenda as G7 foreign ministers meet in Liverpool

  Global health, human rights and economic resilience after the Covid-19 pandemic will top agenda as G7 foreign and development ministers gather in...

3 passengers injured as gun goes off by accident at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

A gun accidentally went off after being discovered at an X-ray checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Saturday, Persecondnews.com gathered. Dozens of passengers went...

Nigerian Professors

Incredible! Federal Government pays professors N416,000 monthly salary, ASUU Chairman says

  Nigerian professors and other academics especially those on the employ of the Federal Government and states are poorly paid, the Academic Staff...

Ogun State Attorney general

Ogun Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniran, quits

  The Ogun State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Akingbolahan Adeniran, has quit his job. The news of his resignation dominated...

Anambra poll: Gov.-elect, Prof. Soludo, gets felicitations from South Africa

    With President Muhammadu Buhari leading the pack, another congratulatory message from South Africa has poured in for ex-CBN governor and Anambra...

End military hostilities now to pave way for dialogue, AU Special Envoy to Ethiopia, Obasanjo urges

Former Nigerian President and African Union’s Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has urged sides to the military hostilities...

2023 presidential poll: Why we want Osinbajo to succeed Buhari, by monarch

    As Nigeria gears up for the 2023 polls, another monarch of prominence and paramountcy has canvassed support for the candidacy of...

Just in: Fake Ph.D certificate: FIIRO ex-DG, Igwe, remanded in prison

  Chima Igwe, a former Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO) is currently cooling his heels in prison over...