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In what appears to be a declaration of a state of emergency through the backdoor, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday ordered the chief of defence staff, Air Chief Marshall Oluseyi Petinrin, to take absolute control of the security situation in Plate...
Gunmen bombed a police station in Misau, Bauchi State, and robbed a nearby bank yesterday. They killed six people including five policemen at the town that is located 160km north of the state capital, Bauchi. Heavy gunfire resounded throughout the town...
The House of Representatives yesterday summoned the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to appear today just as it maintained that the investigation into the N10bn single window facilitation contract will still be carried out in spite of the...
A suspected cult leader yesterday told officers of the Bayelsa State Police Command how nine members of his cult group known as “Icelanders” raped a girl in the state capital. He also explained the group’s involvement in the killing o...
Some banks recently raised their minimum account balances and also introduced different charges as part of measures to encourage the electronic system of payment in the country. These new steps have continued to generate a lot of controversy amon...
A whistle blower, WikiLeaks, has revealed that late President Umaru Yar’Adua was considering prosecuting his predecessor, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on corruption related issues, while he was assiduously working to strip his government out of Obasa...
Managing Director of LEADERSHIP Holdings, Abraham Nda-Isaiah, and five others were yesterday in Kaduna ordained as pastors of the International Praise Cathedral Church. Pastor Abraham Nda-Isaiah had served in various capacities of the church which incl...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, has said that the House will stick to the decision of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the choice of the House Majority Leader. The PDP had already zoned the post to the South-West....
The Federal Government has said it spends over N1.1trn on importation of wheat, rice, fish and sugar annually. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinnwumi Adesina, stated this in Abuja on Friday at a media briefing to commemorate f...
Saadi Gaddafi, a son of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has arrived in Niger, an official said Sunday, as Libyan fighters tried to stamp out the last pockets of the former leader’s loyalists. The son was accompanied by eight ex-Libyan offic...
The Nupe Foundation Elders Council has approved the setting up of seven committees including that of the development of the Hydro carbon and solid mineral deposit in the Nupe land with a view to improving the economic prosperity of its people. In a com...
The President of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs in Nigeria(SCIAN) and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad III, has said that traditional rulers are major stakeholders in tackling security problems in Nigeria. He added that securi...
Gombe State Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo has urged the Federal Government to make pensioners’ welfare a priority, saying that the practice of delaying their pensions for years must be stopped. Dankwambo, who spoke yesterday at a reception held in h...
A one day meeting of the South-East Governors Forum ended yesterday in Enugu without a word on the controversial minimum wage. Expectation had been rife that the governors would take a stand on the contentious minimum wage and critical issues affecting...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the last 100 days of the current administration as showing little or nothing to convince Nigerians that President Goodluck Jonathan has what it takes to transform the country as promised. Appraising th...