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Bizzare ! Dare-devil robbers launch botched attempt at Aso Rock

An attempt by armed robbers to burgle the residence of the Chief of Staff to the President,  Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, on Monday night...

Real reasons why Amaechi is going for Bala-Usman’s jugular: $1.5bn Channel Management, INTELS Contracts

  Fresh facts have emerged why the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi is going all-out for the suspended Managing Director of the Nigerian...

Federal Government announces May 12-13 as Eid-il-Fitr holidays

The Federal Government has declared May 12 and May 13 as public holidays for this year’s Eid-il-Fitr celebration. Persecondnews reports that Eid-il-Fitr is...

COVID-19: FG reintroduces restrictions on churches, mosques, lockdown

  Curfew is back, now from midnight to 4.00am In response to the spiking of the new variant of COVID-19 in some countries,...

Alleged award of Coastline Terminals to Dangote’s proxy company: Bala Usman denies report, says its figment of some wild imagination  

“To start with, the Nigerian Ports Authority has an executive management team, which always considers and takes business decisions on all assets of the...

Past injustices reason for current security challenges — Kebbi Senator

  Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, member of the Senate Committee on Electoral Matters,  has attributed the current high level of insecurity in the country...

Probe N39.5bn duplicated, phoney projects in 2021 budget, SERAP tells Buhari

  With irrepressible high spirits, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has again called on President Muhammadu Buhari to launch an investigation...

International Container Terminal Services says it is not owned by Dangote

  Contrary to claims by an online publication, a global port management company, International Container Terminal Services Inc, says it is not owned...

Catholic Bishops to Buhari: Save Nigeria from imminent collapse, disintegration

“A country where students are no longer safe in schools nor farmers safe in their farms does not have a future to look...

NPA did not have operating surpluses of N133.084b in 2017, N88.79b in 2018, says Bala-Usman

Suspended Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman has clarified what the Authority received...

FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Australia-based Nigerian donates 55’’ TV set to Nigeria Football Supporters Club

FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Australia-based Nigerian donates 55’’ TV set to Nigeria Football Supporters Club

Donations have continued to stream into the Nigeria Football Supporters Club (NFSC) from its members in the Diaspora with the latest, a 55...

Suspension of NPA boss, Bala-Usman: Pres. Buhari, Ameachi breach Public Service Rules, govt’s own circular – PSN investigation

  The suspension of the Managing Director/CEO of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, by President Muhammadu Buhari, is a flagrant breach...

COVID-19 Misinformation: Facebook, WHO launch new campaign across Africa

Facebook bans News website after reporting deaths from US gov’t vaccine database

A news website has been permanently booted from Facebook after the social media giant accused it of publishing “false information about COVID-19 that...

Mama Taraba, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan dead at 60

A former Minister of Women Affairs during the first tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan, has died at the age...

Ameachi battles Hadiza Bala Usman, hoodwinks President Buhari for carte blanche to “roast’’ her for being her own woman

  Nigerians were shocked and petrified to the marrow when the news of the suspension of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports...

COVID-19 forces postponement of FIFA 2022 World Cup Qualifiers in Africa

  By Boye Ajayi The 2022 World Cup qualifiers in Africa have been rescheduled as a result of COVID-19, the World Soccer ruling...