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Senate President Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu, deputy senate president, have arrived at the federal capital territory (FCT) high court, Abuja where their trial for alleged forgery commences. They arrived at 8:48am in company of…

Barely a day after his retirement as the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Solomon Arase, has been declared wanted by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Vanguard gathered that the leadership of the IPOB, on Thursday, said it…

A 33-year-old female church worker with a popular Pentecostal church with its headquarters in Lagos, Adefunke Afolayan, has been charged before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in the state, for allegedly stealing the sum of…

Karim Wade, the son of Senegal’s former president, was released from prison after being granted a presidential pardon, a spokesman for President Macky Sall and Wade’s lawyer said on Friday. Wade, who served three years in prison,…

Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, went spiritual on Thursday, asking officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to read a portion of the Bible. Fayose has been engaged i anti-graft agency since Monday…

Embattled Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, on Thursday shared pictures and videos showing how Zenith bank management allegedly visited him to beg him over reports that the bank denied funding  his election campaign in 2014.…

The Aisha Buhari mentioned in the bribery scandal of a former United States congressman, William Jefferson, was an impostor who was peddling influence with the name of President Muhammadu Buhari, a former chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu…

Yesterday, June 22, 2016 popular blogger, Linda Ikeji was accused of evading tax and denying her Banana Island mansion (HERE). The former model was said to be in trouble with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) for evading N75…

Justice Kabiru Auta of a Kano High Court  on Wednesday sentenced the killer of a Kano-based business tycoon, philanthropist and Yoruba leader, Alhaji Ganiyu Akanbi Bello, to death by hanging. The accused person, Abubakar…

President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Obiang Nguema has promoted his son Teodorin Nguema Obiang to the position of Vice President. Africanews reports that a state decree by the President read on Wednesday on state television…

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State says Zenith Bank Plc and other private donors funded his 2014 governorship campaign. He, therefore, stated that linking him with embattled former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki (retd.)…

The Presidency has dismissed as laughable the desperate attempt by Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State to link President Buhari's wife Aisha to US Congressman William Jefferson's bribery scandal for which the American lawmaker was…

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has blasted President Buhari, saying he cannot claim to be an angel and clean from corruption, revealing that the estate he (the President) built in Abuja is known to him (Fayose), and that the…

TRADITIONALISTS across the country weekend converged on Akure, the Ondo state capital for the burial of the President of the Reformed Ogboni Fraternity (ROF) in Nigeria, Chief Araba Ajemoju. However, his death and burial ‎elicited…

20 year old herdsman, Isa Alhassan has been arrested by officers of the Nasararwa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) for allegedly stabbing a farmer, Nasiru Mohammed, to death in…

A police sergeant, Daniel Osaimayu, has been dismissed from the Nigeria Police Force for allegedly collecting N50,000 bribe from motorists in the Oshodi area of Lagos State. Osaimayu, who was attached to the Lagos State Task Force on…

A 26-year-old man, Lucky Aigbogun, has been accused of smashing his caretaker’s head with a hammer during an argument over outstanding rent. The accused denied it on Monday, when docked by the police. Aigbogun, a resident of Shola…

One Taye Boko and his accomplice were on Wednesday apprehended for armed robbery in Lagos state. The duo was nabbed by irate mob in the early hours of today in Buari Street, in Mushin area of the state. Reports say Boko, a…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday stormed the Lagos residence of the former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro. Although the reason for the raid was yet to be ascertained, THISDAY gathered…

The House of Representatives on Tuesday sought the reversal of the validity period of the Nigerian Passport to 10 years as was the case before the introduction of the current e-Passport regime. Under the current passport policy, the…