‘I didn’t betray Ali Ndume’– Bukola Saraki
The Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, yesterday, denied betraying the immediate past Senate Leader,Senator Ali Ndume. Speaking with State House correspondents after a private meeting with...
View ArticleAPC senators in fresh battle with Ike Ekweremadu
Less than 36 hours after the All Progressives Congress(APC) caucus in the Senate sacked Senator Ali Ndume as Majority Leader and replaced him with Senator Ahmed Lawan, there are reports of a plot by...
View Article‘Nigeria will get out of recession in 2017’– World Bank
The World Bank has in a statement on Wednesday predicted that Nigeria will get out of recession and grow its Gross Domestic Product(GDP) by 1% this year after plunging into its worst recession in over...
View ArticleAlleged corruption: 14 witnesses to testify against Justice Adeniyi Ademola
Not less than 14 witnesses are set to testify for the prosecution in the corruption trial of Justice Adeniyi Ademola and two others, court documents have revealed. Among the witnesses are a former...
View ArticleEFCC traces N632.2 million to ex-Chief Judge’s account
Detectives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have traced over N632.2million to former Enugu State Chief Judge Innocent Azubuike Umezulike’s account. The lodgements are said to have...
View ArticleAfter arrest, ‘Pretty Mike’ writes undertaking to stop leashing girls
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a club owner and socialite, Mike Nwogu, who is popularly known as Pretty Mike, for dehumanising young women. Nwogu was in the news recently after images...
View ArticleFULL LIST: President Buhari sends revised list of 46 non-career ambassadorial...
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent to the Senate a revised list of 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees for confirmation. In a letter sent, Thursday, to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari and...
View ArticleSouthern Kaduna: Wole Soyinka chides President Buhari, Gov. El-Rufai
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has criticized the was President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai have so far handled the mass killings in Southern Kaduna. Indigenes...
View Article‘Nigeria should break up if it’s God’s will’– Bishop David Oyedepo
The founder and presiding Bishop of the megachurch, Faith Tabernacle, Bishop David Oyedepo has invoked God’s curses on those fueling Southern Kaduna killings, saying God should break up Nigeria now if...
View ArticleSupreme Court okays appeal of Hamza Al-Mustapha’s acquittal
The Supreme Court on Thursday gave Lagos State Government the nod to appeal against the discharge and acquittal of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha over the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola. Al-Mustapha was a...
View ArticleFULL LIST: President Buhari reconstitutes management of RBDAs
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the Executive Management of River Basin Development Authorities under the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. The appointments are with...
View ArticleFreedom of Press: Premium Times replies Nigerian Army
PREMIUM TIMES has said that the Nigerian Army was not in the position to question its professionalism the online medium made this in it reply to a letter sent by the Nigerian Army, threatening legal...
View Article‘Corruption is Nigeria’s biggest problem’– President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja said corruption ranks the ‘‘very worst” of all the major problems confronting Nigeria. Receiving recipients of the 2016 Nigerian National Order of Merit...
View Article‘Nigerians should not link Boko Haram with Islam’– Justice Olountoyin-Mohammed
A former GrandKhadi of the Kwara Sharia Court of Appeal, retired Justice Salihu Olountoyin-Mohammed, on Friday, urged the people not to link Boko Haram insurgency with lslam. The Jurist made the...
View ArticleSuicide bombers strike in Madagali, Adamawa State
Several people are feared dead in an early morning bomb blast in Madagali town in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa. An eye witness who simply identified himself as Baba, said the blast...
View Article‘Why the Nigerian Police should apologize to Patience Jonathan’– Igbo youths
Comrade Nwachukwu Kachukwu David on Friday led a large number of Igbo youths in Enugu State to the Enugu State Police Command. The youths were demanding for a public apology from the Nigerian Police...
View ArticleMurder of UNIOSUN student: ‘Herbalist paid me N10,000’– Driver
A herbalist, identified simply as Jelili, and a commercial driver, Elijah Oyebode, have been arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services in Osun State for allegedly killing a 400-level...
View ArticleN754m oil subsidy: Ada Ugo-Ngadi faints in court
The Managing Director of Ontario Oil and Gas Limited, Mrs. Ada Ugo-Ngadi, fainted on Friday at the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja after being convicted of N754m oil subsidy scam by the court....
View ArticleReverend Father converts to Islam in Nasarawa mosque
Tweet News: A Catholic priest on Friday, 13th January 2017, converted to Islam. A Nigerian tweeter Ahmed Isah{@Sir_Ruffy} revealed this on Twitter saying, “At mosque where I attended yesterday’s...
View ArticleThe rise and rise of award-winning fashion designer, Kiki Kamanu
Kiki Kamanu, born to diplomatic parents, a Bostonian mother and Igbo father, is the face of her eponymous label which was birthed when she began revitalizing her twin sister’s clothes at age eleven....
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