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Plan to scrap Amnesty Programme: Don’t wake sleeping lion, Clark cautions FG

    Elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has cautioned the Federal Government not  to scrap the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), for ex-militants, saying it rupture...

Alleged come-back bid as APC chair, Oshiomhole calls DG Governors Forum empty brain 

  Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ex-Gov. Adams Oshiomhole, has taken a swipe at the Director-General of Nigeria Governors...

Breaking: Bayelsa Governor Diri sacked

    The Bayelsa State Elections  Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Monday nullified the election of Governor Duoye Diri of the Peoples...

Nigeria: World Bank to give 36 states pills for speedy economic recovery

In a bid mitigate the crushing effect of  COVID-19 pandemic on businesses and individual taxpayers and ensure the speedy recovery of economies of...

2021-2023 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework: FG introduces fiscal measures, interventions

  In a bid to cushon the financial crisis occasioned by the global COVID-19 pandemic and reflate the economy, the Federal Government says...

Withdraw NBC ‘insult code’ in 7 days, SERAP urges Buhari

  Irked by the new National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) Code and memo threatening to sanction any broadcast that denigrates, disrespects, insults, and abuses...

FG commences operation on new Lagos-Ibadan standard guage rail line mid-September

  With effect from mid-September this  year, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it will commence skeletal operations on the new Lagos-Ibadan Standard...

President Trump’s brother Robert Trump dies in New York hospital at 72

  Robert S. Trump, the younger brother of President Trump, died on Saturday night at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. He was 72. The...

Foreign loans: FG says we borrow for Infrastructure development 

  The Federal Government said on Saturday assured Nigerians that the loans it borrowed from China and other sources were being effectively utilised...

Lanre Rasaq, a.k.a KLM, died from COVID-19, says Osiyemi

  A Lagos APC leader, Chief Lanre Razak, died of COVID-19, a senior journalist and an ally of Rasaq has disclosed. Aged 74, Rasaq,...

How my immigrant parents shaped my politics – Kamala Harris

    Rolling out her historic candidacy as America’s first Indian American African vice presidential candidate, Kamala Harris has revealed that her immigrant...

Tinubu extols Carrington, says he fought repressive government in Nigeria

  All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described the late former United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington, as a...

Trent Alexander-Arnold wins Premier League young player of the season award

    Trent Alexander-Arnold was named Premier League young player of the season for 2019/20 on Friday.   He claimed the award after...

SPDC appeals judgment for its asset sale 

  SPDC says it has filed an appeal and an application for a stay of execution of enforcement of the purported sale of interests...

PDP to Embattled Lagos Speaker: Show your law degree certificate to authenticate claim as lawyer

  The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, has been asked to show proof of his qualification as...

Nigerian lawmaker murdered, wives, toddler abducted 

  A lawmaker, Musa Mante Baraza, has been felled by assassins’ bullet at his Bauchi State home. Baraza, a member representing Dass constituency in...