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OPL 245: Probe Adoke’s alleged forged legal request, anti-corruption group pressures UK

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh One of the leading anti-corruption groups in the UK, the Corner House, has asked the United Kingdom (UK)...

Youth restiveness, a ticking time bomb, says Elumelu

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh Africa’s leading investor, philanthropist founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Tony Elumelu, has called for multi-level and aggressive...

NNPC Signs $1.5bn Contract for PH Refinery Rehabilitation

NNPC Signs $1.5bn Contract for PH Refinery Rehabilitation

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Tuesday signed contract for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning (EPCIC) for the rehabilitation of...

Buhari’s official driver dies at State House clinic

President Muhammadu Buhari’s official driver, MWO Sa’idu Afaka has died. He died on Tuesday at the State House Clinic, Abuja, during an illness,...

The Judge as a Street Fighter by Reuben Abati

      I would never have believed that a day would come when a Nigerian judge would engage in street fighting no...

VP Osinbajo expected in Imo state today, inaugurates projects

VP Osinbajo expected in Imo state today, inaugurates projects 

  Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) will arrive in Owerri later today to inaugurate the Dick Tiger Road. Persecondnews learnt that VP Yemi Osinbajo,...

49 year old man arrested for defiling 12 year old daughter in ogun state

My Father Has Been Sleeping With Me Since Age Seven, Teenage Girl Tells Police

By Boye Ajayi A 12-year-old girl (name withheld) has stormed a police station to report her defilement by her biological father since age...

Gunmen ravage Owerri prisons, state police headquarters,

Gunmen ravage Owerri prisons, state police headquarters, free hundreds of prisoners

Unidentified gunmen have launched a devastating attack on a correctional facility (prisons) in Owerri, Imo State Capital, torching it and freeing about 1,...

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

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

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   To connect people to accurate information and reduce misinformation on its platforms, Facebook is launching a new...

Obasanjo, Northern, Southern leaders, clerics meet over heightening insecurity in Nigeria

“Federal Government must be proactive, secure necessary and updated intelligence to deal with organised crimes and have common policy for the nation”  ...

Buhari sued for his inaction over missing or theft of N3.8bn Health Ministry funds

“Corruption in the health sector exacerbates inequality in already unequal and unfair political, social, and economic environments, and produces a ‘cash and carry’...

Nigeria Football Supporters Club NFSC Rev. Samuel Ikpea

Nigeria Football Supporters Club Chairman, Ikpea, bags National Merit Award

The Rev. Samuel Ikpea, the National Chairman, Nigeria Football Supporters Club, has added another feather to his cap — the “National Development Merit...

Late Yinka Odumakin

Breaking: COVID-19 claims Afenifere Spokesman, Yinka Odumakin

Mr Yinka Odumakin, the spokesman for Pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has died of complications from COVID-19. According to report, the social critic has...

Fulani herdsmen on a farmland

Probe terrorist activities diguised as farmers/herders conflict, ECWA tells Buhari

  The Federal Government has been told to expeditiously treat Fulani killer-herdsmen as terrorists in a bid to clear itself of any complicity...

Women Empowerment: Dangote gives N160m to rural women in Kwara

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has empowered 16,000 women with N160 million across the 16 local government...

Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami

Any Nigerian without National Identity Number (NIN) risks 7 or 14 years imprisonment, says Minister

  Any Nigerian who fails to obtain his or her National Identity Number (NIN) risks seven or 14 years imprisonment, the Minister of...