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Military aircraft in fatal crash in Abuja, passengers, crew burnt to death

  A military aircraft, King Air 350, has crashed a few yards off the runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja. Passengers...

Flush out criminal herders, bandits from nation’s forests, Gov. Abiodun urges Pres. Buhari

  Nigerian forests have become the hideouts of criminals including intinerant foreign herders stoking ethnic crisis and killings in the country, Ogun Gov....

NIRSAL unveils scorecard, facilitates N148bn in finance, investments for agriculture and agribusiness in 2020

  The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) says it facilitated over N148 billion in finance and investments for agriculture...

BREAKING: Ex-Customs Controller-General, Dikko Inde, passes on

The immediate past Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Dikko Inde, is dead.Dikko died at an expatriate hospital in Abuja, according to family...

Rising crude price: NNPC rules out petrol price increase in February

    “The decision not to increase the price was to allow for the conclusion of the ongoing engagements with the organized labour...

Two months after Kastina students abduction, gunmen again kidnap students, teachers in Niger State

  Some gunmen have kidnapped unspecified number of students and teachers of Government Science College, Kagara in Niger State. The gunmen invaded the...

Buhari to new ambassadors: Fight hard for Nigeria, Nigerians abroad

  President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the new set of ambassadors to protect the interests of Nigerians living abroad and also fight hard...

BREAKING: 40-Year-Old Bawa ls New EFCC Boss

BREAKING: 40-Year-Old Bawa ls New EFCC Boss

A new Chairman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been appointed. He is Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, an EFCC investigator. President...

Okonjo-Iweala’s WTO appointment: Buhari, Atiku, Barkindo excited, felicitate with her

  Congratulatory messages have continued to poured in for Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Leading the...

Breaking: Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala named WTO Director-General

  Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the first African...

For his dedication, serving in Boko Haram territory, Ogun-born medical doctor gets N13.9m Borno Gov. largesse

  By Boye Ajayi   The Borno State Government has compensated a 65-year-old medical doctor from Ogun State, Dr Isa Akinbode with N13.9...

Carrying of AK 47 by herdsmen: Gov. Akeredolu blasts Bauchi Governor, says he is lawless, an unrepentant anarchist

  Outraged by Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed’s justifying Fulani herdsmen carrying guns, Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has described him as an...

Lagos Lekki Toll Plaza: Police Crush, Arrest 10 Protesters, Haul them Into Black Maria

  By Boye Ajayi   No fewer than 10 people including four girls have been arrested by security operatives at the Lekki toll...

Fulani herdsmen on a farmland

Fresh herdsmen attack in Ogun: Two killed, schools, hospitals shut

  Owode-Ketu and Ijoun communities in the Yewa North Council Area of Ogun State have been turned into a theatre of war following...

Gov. Bello lets cat out of the bag, says Fani-Kayode has joined APC

A former Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, known for his vitriolic attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, may...

Abuja court unfreezes accounts linked with promoters of EndSARS protests

  High Court in Abuja has unfrozen accounts linked with some promoters of the October 2020 #EndSARS protest that rocked the country to...