The Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday approved the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN’s) cashless economy proposal, seeking to use Lagos to test run the policy. The FEC added that the policy would help reduce cost of running banks by 30...
The political lobbying and jostling for ministerial appointment may have come and gone but the aftermath have continued to plague the crisis-ridden Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP). Aggrieved members have vowed to destroy the pa...
Tiger Woods has revealed that rushing back from injury was one of the biggest mistakes of his career. He lasted just nine holes at The Players Championship at Sawgrass in May, before suffering a recurrence of his troublesome knee and Achilles injuries....
For demanding and accepting bribe, operatives of the ICPC have arrested a Magistrate Court Judge in Enugu, Judge Joseph Sunday Edeh of the Enugu North Local Government Council Magistrate Court. Edeh was brought to the commission’s headquarters in...
Workers in Edo State yesterday commenced an indefinite strike following breakdown in negotiations between the government and the state chapters of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC). The strike, expectedly paralysed activities...
Three former Oyo State Commissioners in the administration of Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala were yesterday quizzed by operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in connection with an alleged N6.2billion frau...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday released a timetable for staggered governorship elections in six states -Sokoto, Bayelsa, Edo, Adamawa, Cross River and Kogi. The INEC commissioner in charge of Information and Publicity, P...
The manner in which the nation’s tertiary institutions conduct admission for new entrants is marred with irregularities. The situation is not getting any better and those seeking admission are the worst for it. However, at the second combined pol...
Cross River State Government might be on a collision course with its sister states, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as it refuted publications credited to their respective governors, Chief Rotimi Amaechi and Obong Godswill Akpabio. The first refutal was over the...
Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, has accepted responsibility for two devastating oil spills in Ogoniland in Rivers State. The Bodo fishing community in Ogoni, sued Shell in the United Kingdom (UK), alleging that oil spills in 2008 and 2009 had destroyed t...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal yesterday pleaded with foreign countries to help fight corruption in Nigeria by legislating against receiving and keeping rogue money. He said that such legislations would criminali...
The Association of Muslim Brotherhood of Nigeria (AMBON) has argued that there is no prohibition of Western education in Islam. In a communiqué issued in Kaduna at the end of its meeting, which was signed by its national president, Abu-sufyan Ibn Abub...
A 26-year-old final year student of the University of Jos, Nnamdi Nwocha, yesterday appeared before a Kaswar-Nama Upper Area Court for allegedly raping a minor.Nnamdi, a resident of Zarama Close, Farin-gada, Jos, appeared before Malam Mustapha Hassan o...
Niger State governor, Muazu Babagida Aliyu, has said that only the judiciary arm of government could rescue the nation from the incessant manipulations of the nation’s polity by few individuals to suit their purposes. Aliyu who presided over the ...
The 15th batch of ex-militants numbering 1,500, the highest single figure, have started receiving lectures at the Federal Government Amnesty rehabilitation Camp at Obubra, Cross River State. The batch which comprised mainly, ex-militants from Bayelsa S...