‘FG’s CCT appeal will be a futile exercise’– Senate President
Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki on Friday said the federal government’s appeal against the ruling of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on his case was an attempt to pull him down. Recall the...
View ArticleCourt restrains Oluwo of Iwo from removing Abiola Ogundokun
An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo, the state capital has granted an order restraining the Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi from removing Chief Abiola Ogundokun as the Bashorun...
View Article‘Gov. Rauf Aregbesola is wicked’– Senator Isiaka Adeleke’s brother spits fire
The younger brother of Senator Isiaka Adeleke, who is the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the July 8 Osun West Senatorial District by-election, Ademola Adeleke, has said he will...
View ArticleLocal singer in Ondo to die by hanging for armed robbery, rape
An Akure High Court has sentenced a man, Aturoti Adeleke to death by hanging. Justice S. A. Bola while delivering the judgement said Aturoti was found guilty of armed robbery and rape. According to the...
View Article“Isiaka Adeleke will be unhappy in his grave seeing his brother and Omisore...
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC) for the Osun West Senatorial District by-election, Senator Mudasiru Hussein, has said he will defeat Ademola Adeleke, the younger brother of Senator...
View Article“Something is missing in Nigeria’s democracy; we are living dangerously”–...
Former Chief of Army Staff and prominent member of the defunct National Democratic Coalition(NADECO), Gen. Alani Akinrinade (retd.), has said Nigerians have not learnt lessons despite the country’s...
View ArticleEFCC arrests NABDA D-G, Jumeyi Ogbadu
The Director General of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Professor (Mrs) Lucy Jumeyi Ogbadu, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for her...
View ArticleHow Nigerian Army troops arrested notorious Boko Haram kingpin
Troops of 27 Task Force Brigade, deployed to Buni Gari in Borno said they have arrested another suspected Boko Haram terrorist. Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, the Director Army Public Relations, made this...
View Article‘Why President Buhari should revert to Jonathan Gas Master Plan’– PENGASSAN
The President of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) , Comrade Olabode Johnson , has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to properly implement the Gas Master Plan...
View ArticleFederal Government begins yam exports to Europe, USA
Nigeria on Thursday began to export yams to Europe and the United States, as part of moves to diversify its oil-dependent economy and earn much-needed foreign exchange. Agriculture minister Audu Ogbeh...
View ArticleIn Ekiti, former Vice Principal bags life sentence for raping 12-year-old...
A former Vice Principal of St. Mary’s Girls Grammar School, Ikole-Ekiti, Taiwo Ajayi, has been sentenced to life in jail for raping a 12-year-old student (name withheld) of the school. The court found...
View ArticleFour Nigerian widows sue Shell in Netherlands
Four Nigerian women are taking legal action in the Dutch courts against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell accusing it of complicity in the 1990s executions of their husbands by the Nigerian military, Amnesty...
View ArticleBabatunde Osotimehin’s funeral arrangements
The funeral arrangements for the immediate past Executive Director of United Nations Population Fund and former Minister of Health Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, have been announced. In a statement issued...
View ArticleEx-VP Namadi Sambo speaks on recent raid of his Kaduna home
Former Vice President, Namadi Sambo, on Saturday that there are plans by security agents to set him up. Sambo was reacting to the recent raid on his Kaduna home by security agents including the police,...
View Article“President Buhari is recovering in a very robust way”– APC chairman,John...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that only the doctors of President Muhammadu Buhari in the United Kingdom can decide when he will be fit to...
View Article“How Nigeria is slipping into a state of emergency”– Speaker Yakubu Dogara
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, has raised alarm over the deployment of military personnel in over 28 states in the country. Speaking on Monday in Abuja at a...
View ArticleFederal Government investigating teenage plane stowaway survivor
Nigerian authorities have launched an investigation into claims that a teenager survived 12 hours hidden in the wheel compartment of a plane between Lagos and London, an aviation official said...
View ArticleFULL LIST: Ag. Pres., Osinbajo’s brother Akinlolu, Keyamo, 28 others emerge SANs
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee, LLPC, has promoted 30 lawyers including prominent Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo and Akinlolu Osinbajo who is the younger brother to the Acting President,...
View ArticleMalabu oil deal: Why lawmakers want ex-president Goodluck Jonathan quizzed
Nigerian lawmakers on Wednesday said former president Goodluck Jonathan should give evidence at an inquiry into an oil block deal that has become a shorthand for endemic graft. The probe centres on the...
View ArticleHow Uloma Curry-Walker killed her husband over his $100,000 life insurance
A newlywed accused of soliciting her firefighter husband’s killing to collect $100,000 in insurance money has been convicted of aggravated murder in a scheme that was flawed from the start: His ex-wife...
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