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Kogi court grant Dino compassionate bail
Justice Naair Ajanah of a court in Kogi has granted Senator Dino Melaye bail in N10 milion and one surety in like sum....
Oni confirms Per Second News report : Money played role in Ekiti APC primary election
Former governor of Ekiti state, and governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Chief Segun Oni, on Tuesday essentially...
Sudan arrests killers of Nigerian diplomat
The Sudanese authorities has announced the arrest of a woman accused of killing an Immigration Attaché at the Nigerian embassy in Khartoum. The...
Two shot dead at Lagos APC local govt congress
No fewer than two members of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos has been shot dead at the party’s local government congress in...
Kwara APC disassociates itself from nPDP’s 7-day ultimatum to Buhari
A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that is loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari in Kwara state has disassociated itself from the...
An Arms Deal Won’t Heal What Ails Muhammadu Buhari
Nigeria’s president is trying to prove he can get from Washington what his predecessor couldn’t, but it might not be enough to get...
Nigeria embassy official attacked, killed in Sudan
Diplomacy can be dangerous. Nigerian diplomats have come under attack in various places in the last few decades. The Nigerian Immigration Attache I...
Dangote topples U.S Vice President Pence in Forbes magazine’s list of 75 most powerful people
Nigeria’s foremost entrepreneur, Aliko Dangote, is now more powerful than US Vice President Mike Pence, at least according to Forbes Magazine, which has published...
$500m Abacha Loot: Malami’s traducers should stop chasing shadows, APC group advises
By Stella Igwe-Adesoga, Per Second News In the wildness of our gutter politics, the players are moving in circles, chasing themselves in a...
OPL 245: The most popular oil block by Reuben Abati
The Petroleum Act 1969 (as amended) grants powers to the Ministry of Petroleum, acting through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to...
Buhari approves new security measures to curb killings
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday approved the establishment of a new Battalion of the Nigerian Army, as well as a new Police Area Command,...
Account for post-privatisation spending on the power sector, SERAP tells Fashola
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a Freedom of Information request to Babatunde Fashola, SAN, Minister of Power, Works and...
Okorocha, Yari brief Buhari after turbulent APC ward congress
The Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum, Rochas Okorocha, as well as Zamfara State Governor, Abdullaziz Yari, on Sunday paid a visit to...
Abacha loot and a dismantled cartel
By Sufuyan Ojeifo Through a Swiss lawyer, Mr. Enrico Monfrini, contracted in 1999, the Nigerian government was able to trace and confiscate staggering...
Aspirants alleges election irregularities as APC governorship primaries suspended indefinitely
The Tanko Al-Makura-led organising committee has suspended the Ekiti governorship primaries indefinitely following the violent disruption of the exercise. Former governor Kayode Fayemi...
What Is Codeine? The most abused drug in Nigeria
….Codeine linked to life-threatening, fatal respiratory problems in children In order to fully understand the dangers of codeine addiction, it’s important to answer...
