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NBC fines Arise TV, TVC N2m each over breach of National Broadcasting Code

For alleged infractions, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has imposed a fine of N2 million on Arise News and TVC. The two stations...

IGP orders full-scale crack down on new Naira notes violators

The Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has charged officers and men to go all out to arrest and prosecute people involved in...

Cash crunch: Give me seven days to resolve it, Pres. Buhari urges Nigerians

Following request by APC governors, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday pleaded with Nigerians to give him maximum seven days to resolve the ongoing...

Gunmen desecrate temple of justice in Imo State, shoot dead sitting judge

Ceaseless gory violence and bloodletting sweeping Imo State and other parts of Southeast Nigeria took another turn for the worse as a judge...

Buhari’ll go down in history as Nigeria’s worst President — Femi Branch

Apparently frustrated by the biting economic conditions of the country amid scarcity of fuel and redesigned naira notes, actor Femi Branch, says President...

APC’s Muslim-muslim ticket: U.S Congress wants Nigeria relisted among countries with egregious violations of religious freedom

"The House finds the Department of State’s decision to delist Nigeria ‘‘inexplicable’’, and a result of ‘‘turning a blind eye’’ to that country’s...

Queues: CBN directs banks to start cash payment across the counters

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed deposit money banks (DMBs) to commence the payment of the redesigned Naira notes over the...

Old Naira notes swap: Pres. Buhari unhappy about Nigerians’ sufferings, passing phase — Minister

...CBN directs banks to commence the payment of the new Naira notes over the counter, subject to a maximum daily payout limi of...

Lagos records another container-laden articulated vehicle mishap, the eighth in five days

Lagos metropolis and emerging mega city again on Wednesday recorded another accident involving a containerised truck at the ever busy Oshodi, the state’s...

Teenager killed, another in critical condition as hoodlums petrol bombed INEC office in Anambra

With 24 days to the general elections, another office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and a Police station have been attacked...

Buhari urges new Ministry of Finance Incorporated board to raise current value from N18tn to N100tn

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday inaugurated the Board of Directors, Governing Council and Executive Management Team of the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI)...

Just in: Some forces in Aso Rock trying to scuttle Tinubu’s presidential ambition – el-Rufai

Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai on Wednesday, disclosed that some powerful elements in Aso Rock are working assiduously to jeopardize the chances...

At least 100 killed in Pakistani Mosque bombing – Officials

The death toll in a bomb attack on a Pakistani Mosque rose to 100 as local officials acknowledged a security lapse led to one...

Three days after the container tragedy in Lagos, petrol tanker rams into four tricycles, two dead

Three days after a container fell off and crushed eight passengers in Lagos, an accident involving a petrol-laden truck and four tricycles (Keke...

Is this what I should get for serving Nigeria? Corps member laments as robbers gang-rape his mother

A Twitter user known as KingAhmed26 and a National Youth Service Corps member (name withheld) has narrated how robbers attacked and raped his...

Protesting youths hurl stones, dangerous objects at Buhari’s convoy in Kano

Ignoring warning from Kano Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Kano State yesterday was marred by violent protest by youths as...