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Yahaya Bello wins Kogi governorship election marred by suspicion, bloodshed

  After days of increasingly restive waiting, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has officially declared governor Yahaya Bello of the APC has...

Future of oil and gas bright, world’s 7bn people can’t do away with it, says NNPC

  By Kunle Akinsola   …global oil decline forecast not a threat     Notwithstanding the forecasted global oil decline, the Nigerian National...

APC’s David Lyon coasts to victory in Bayelsa gov. poll

    …polls 352, 552 votes to beat PDP’s Diri     Mr Dvid Lyon of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been...

LASG seizes, tranquilizes lion in Victoria Island home of an Indian national

  Following a tip-off, the Lagos State Government says a cub has been seized at the Victoria Island residence of an Indian.  ...

Kogi elections: We are alarmed by the fatalities, violence, say EU, U.S., UK others

    With the violence that trailed the Kogi elections, the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other countries under...

Busola Dakolo’s rape case against COZA pastor dismissed

    …case is empty, frivolous, awards N1m cost against Dakolo   After months of media-hyped allegations of rape against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo...

Kyari Tasks NNPC Retail Board on Sustenance of Unadulterated Petroleum Products

  The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has urged the Board of Directors and Management...

Hate Speech: Nigerian Senate reintroduces death penalty bill

    Barely a week after the Nigerian Senate reintroduced a bill on social media regulation, the country’s Upper Chamber has resurrected another...

Ban on petrol sale at borders: House of Reps fumes, says it’s unacceptable

  Unimpressed by the ban on the sale of petrol about 20km to the country’s borders, the House of Representatives has asked the...

Free Sowore protesters: Lethal weapons, pepper spray used to disperse Abuja sit-in

    Scores of Free-Omoyele Sowore-protesters, who had massed near the precincts of the Department of State Services (DSS) headquarters office in Abuja...

Money-for-mark: Polytechnic lecturer bags 20 years

  A gratification-for-mark examiner at the Polytechnic, Ibadan, has reached the dead end and is to spend the next 20 years behind bars....

SERAP writes to Archbishop of Canterbury, seeks his intervention in Sowore’s release

  Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has sent an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Portal Welby urging...

Bayelsa Poll: APC won’t tolerate ballot snatching, rigging, Badaru warns

  Jigawa State Governor, Abubakar Badaru, on Friday warned that the All Progressives Congress (APC), would not tolerate any form of rigging and...

Vanguard photojournalist beaten up, dragged on floor, camera damaged by Osinbajo’s security aides

A photojournalist with the Vanguard Newspapers, attached to the Aso Rock Villa, Mr. Abayomi Adeshida, was beaten up by security details attached to...

Corruption cases: FG strips EFCC, others of seizure of assets power, transfers authority to AGF

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other allied bodies have been stripped of the powers to seize assets of people...

Finally, Appeal Court sacks Adeyeye, Senate spokesman

The Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna has upheld the  nullification of election of spokesman of the Senate, Dayo Adeyeye and ordered the...