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SERAP raps INEC over unpunished vote-buying, unpublished parties’ account since 2015

Living up to its billing, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prosecute vote...

ExxonMobil reverses Omo-Ojo, veteran image-maker’s sack three years after

After three years of his sack by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, reprieve has come the way of a veteran image-maker, Ernest Omo-Ojo, following...

Protest rocks Abuja over six Council Chairmen tenure elongation, refusal to swear in new ones

Protest has continued to trail the suspension of the inauguration of newly elected six area council chairmen in the Federal Capital Territory. Supporters...

Malnutrition looms as acute food insecurity hits 14.5 million Nigerians

Due to the rising food prices as a result of insecurity and other factors, 14.5 million Nigerians currently suffer from acute food insecurity,...

Nigeria Exchange Group ranks Dangote Cement as 2021 best performing stock

Africa’s largest cement manufacturer, Dangote Cement Plc, has emerged the Best Performing Stock of the Year 2021 by the Nigeria Exchange Group (NGX)....

Magu was promoted to AIG after retirement — Police Affairs Minister, Dingyadi

Facts have emerged that the erstwhile sacked Chairman of the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC), CP lbrahim Magu, was actually promoted to Assistant...

BREAKING: Two days after Patricia Etteh’s arrest, ex-NDDC MD, Nsima Ekere, picked up by EFCC

Barely two days after the arrest of Nigeria’s first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, for NDDC contract...

Tension as traders, motorcyclists engage in bloody clash in Abuja satellite community

By Sam Ogbeifun Pandemonium reigned in Dei-Dei, a local community of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, following a bloody clash between commercial motorcyclists...

Alleged N80bn fraud: FG places Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, on indefinite suspension

The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, who was busted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over N80 billion fraud, has...

Detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, denied bail

  The embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has been denied bail by the Federal High Court, Abuja....

Buhari yet to confirm statuses of returning ministers, says Information Minister, Mohammed

President Muhammadu Buhari has yet to take a decision on the returning ministers after they backtracked on their ambitions to contest the primaries...

Sen. Adeleke is PDP’s governorship candidate for Osun July 16 poll, court rules

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the July 16 governorship poll in Osun State, Sen. Ademola Adeleke on Wednesday got a reprieve...

Sylva, Malami, Tallen return as ministers, attend FEC meeting

Three of the 10 ministers who were bade farewell last week by President Muhammadu Buhari,  featured prominently at Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC)....

Nigeria’s first woman Speaker, House of Representatives, Etteh, nabbed for fraud

Nigeria’s first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Patricia Olubunmi Etteh, has been arrested over a shady contract worth N240m awarded...

Why we killed NYSC member, Terungwa Stephanie — female abductor, other suspects confess

Fresh facts have emerged why the 26-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Terungwa Stephanie, was killed in Abuja and her mutilated body...