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In this statement released on Sunday, Senator Tinubu accused Oyegun of sabotaging the will of democracy in Ondo state by overriding the decision of the appeal panel that asked for a fresh governorship primary following investigations…

A National Executive member of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Issa Aremu, has kicked against the plan by the Federal Government to sell some national assets to finance the country out of economic recession. Mr Aremu, in a…

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, has rewarded three gold medalists who are indigenes of the state at the just concluded Rio Paralympics in Brazil. Each athlete received the sum of one million naira each, a plot of land…

Clamour for the sole ownership of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, by the Oyo State government revved up on Thursday, as the state House of Assembly demanded a review of the Memorandum of Understanding…

THE Kano State Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (SERERA) said three persons lost their lives as a result of flood in the state in 2016. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Alhaji Aliyu Bashir, disclosed this in an…

They converged from different parts of the United States of America, top rate professionals all, Nigerians whom Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora Matters and International Relations, described…

Nigeria has hunted down 700,000 firms that have never paid taxes, as the country seeks new revenue sources to offset low oil prices that have pushed Africa’s biggest economy into its first recession in more than 20 years, its tax chief…

Rice Farmers at Ndi Oji Abam in Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State are calling on the government to provide adequate conducive environment to enable them cultivate more rice that would assist in cushioning the effect of…

An Australian woman has called wildlife wranglers to evict a 1m-long venomous and "horny" snake from her Ugg boot. Snake catcher Rolly Burrell caught the eastern brown snake at the woman's home in Adelaide, South Australia. She had…

In furtherance of its avowed commitment to upholding the integrity of its officers, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, September 15, 2016 arrested one of its operatives, Uzodinma Kingsley Agbazue for offences…

The Niger Delta Peoples Professional Volunteer Force (NDPPVF), a group which says its members are workers in the oil and gas industry, has threatened to bomb the headquarters of the NNPC if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…

Four ritualists were allegedly arrested with fresh human hearts in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun state. The suspects Nurudeen Adeniyi, 34, Tunde Banjo, 29, Temitope Alaba 20, and Tobi Olukoya , 20, all confessed to commiting the crime. The…

A young man has been stabbed to death by three friends due to a disagreement over a girlfriend at Eku in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State. In a tragic incident which occurred on Sunday morning at a popular bar, Blue…

Anxiety has taken over concerned people after some students of the Osun State Univerity suddenly went missing. Two final year students of the Osun State University, identified as Robert Akinduro and Samuel Eke, have gone missing.…

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele and some media chiefs at the weekend met to discuss the economy, recession and how the misapplication of the country’s foreign reserves. The apex bank chief spoke on the measures being…

Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Saturday, kicked off a week-long commissioning of 114 roads newly constructed in all the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) in the state, with a pledge…

1,161 graduates have benefited from the scheme, with 68 per cent males, 31 per cent females and 1 per cent vulnerable. The Federal Government’s Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS) has empowered not fewer than 41, 161 graduates,…

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has urged the Federal Government to declare Nigeria’s economic recession a national emergency. This is contained in a three-point communiqué read by the Chairman of the Forum and Zamfara Governor…

It has been noted that part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech at the ‘Change Begins with Me’ campaign on September 8th in Abuja has a shocking resemblance to Barack Obama’s “This Is Your Victory” speech from 2008. A part of Buhari’s…

There was pandemonium at Oke Fia area of Osogbo, Osun State, on Tuesday when a commercial motorcyclist stabbed a young cyclist, Remi Gbadamosi, following a head-on collision between the two of them. As at the time of filing this…