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FCTA moves to ban ‘Okada’
Like Lagos State, the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has disclosed that commercial motorcycle operators, popularly known as ‘okada’, will stop operating in...
Police High Command orders aerial surveillance on Abuja-Kaduna road, mobilizes for Ekiti, Osun polls
Miffed by the incessant banditry and kidnappings on Abuja-Kaduna highway, the Police High Command said in Abuja that it has strengthened patrol and...
Tambuwal not wired to be a national leader, remains an ethnic chauvinist, champion — Bayo Onanuga ex-NAN MD
Sokoto Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal is a hegemonist and a betrayal of a national cause, unworthy of being Nigeria’s president, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s...
Saudi Arabia’s foreign reserves to hit $581bn by end of 2022
Saudi Arabia’s foreign exchange currency reserves are expected to climb to $581 billion by the end of this year, from $451.7bn in...
Just in: Two sons of Chief Justice Tanko, emerge APC, PDP candidates in Bauchi National Assembly primaries
The family of the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Ibrahim Tanko, appears to be embracing the two main political parties in the...
CBN’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme disbursement hits N1.01trn in May 2022
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has distributed a total of N1.01 trillion to over 4.2 million smallholder farmers under the...
Buhari to APC governors, party leadership: Allow me to choose my successor
As the primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) draws nearer, President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the party and the governors to...
I was beaten black and blue, N100m ransom to secure our release, says Methodist Church Prelate
The Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Samuel Kanu Uche on Tuesday gave a gory detailed account of his ordeal in the...
African Union chairman fears ‘catastrophic’ food crisis from Ukraine war
Macky Sall, chairman of the African Union and president of Senegal, has revealed a worrying food crisis saying “the worst may be...
BREAKING: N2.9bn fraud: Ex-Imo Gov. Okorocha gets reprieve
...to remain in EFCC custody untill bail conditions are fulfilled
Breaking: Methodist Church Prelate, bishop, chaplain breath air of freedom
After about 12 hours, abducted Prelate of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, His Eminence Samuel Kanu-Uche, and the Bishop of Owerri, the Rt. Rev....
Okorocha to cool his heels in custody, hires four SANs
Rochas Okorocha, former lmo Governor and APC presidential aspirant, was on Monday remanded in EFCC custody untill May 31 pending the hearing of...
Ex-lmo Gov. Okorocha hauled up in court over N2.9bn corruption charges
Few days after his arrest from his Abuja residence, former Imo Governor and presidential aspirant, Rochas Okorocha, was on Monday, brought before a...
Southeast kidnappers go haywire again, seize head of Methodist Church in Nigeria, bishop, assistant in Abia
Insecurity in the Southeast has again claimed a senior Christian cleric, the head of Methodist Church in Nigeria, Prelate Samuel Kanu Uche, who...
Just in: Accountant-General’s probe: EFCC reveals another stolen N90bn
As the the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) continues investigation into the snitching of N80 billion by the suspended Accountant-General of the...
EFFC links ex-Zamfara Gov. Yari to AGF’s N84bn fraud, busted
One of the suspected accomplices in the N84 billion fraud for which the detained Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, is being...
