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The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday condemned what it described as the “unwarranted and vindictive demolition” of a property linked to former Senate President Bukola Saraki. A bulldozer accompanied by security operatives destroyed Ile Arugbo located at Iloffa Road, Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, midnight yesterday. The property belonged to the late Dr. Olusola […]

The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) yesterday insisted that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was constitutionally right in detaining former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, despite several court orders that they be released on bail pending trial. […]

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has accused the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of throwing up the idea of a third term agenda in Nigeria’s democratic space, accusing the PDP of suffering from monolithic hangover from Obasanjo’s abortive third term agenda. Oshiomhole spoke after leading members of the […]

The Department of State Services has arrested a 32-year-old man, Kabiru Mohammed for creating and distributing fake videos depicting President Muhammadu Buhari wedding the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed and Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq. The suspect, Mohammed, who admitted to creating and sharing the videos begged for forgiveness, saying it […]

President Muhammadu Buhari last night in Abuja condemned the murder of 19 persons by unknown gunmen in Tawari community in Kogi State. This was as the State Governor, Yahaya Bello directed security agencies to fish out the perpetrators of the attack and bring them to book. A statement by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, said Buhari […]

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, became $4.3 billion richer in 2019 as his fortune continued to grow on the back of investments in cement, flour and sugar.  The 62-year-old Nigerian businessman and Africa’s most prominent industrialist ended the decade with a net worth of almost $15 billion, making him the 96th wealthiest man in the […]

Gbemisola Saraki, the daughter of the late former Senate leader, Dr. Olusola Saraki, who is also Minister of State, Transportation, has condemned Thursday’s demolition of a bungalow in Ilorin, Kwara State, known as Ile Arugbo, used by her father to cater to the needs of old women; saying in a statement that it amounted to […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, placed travel restrictions on all his ministers, who can only now travel out of the country eight times in a year. Information, Culture & Tourism Minister Lai Mohammed, who disclosed the new restrictions said Buhari directed that no Minister should go on foreign trips more than twice in a quarter. […]

As the curtains are drawn on 2019, Nigerians take a rear view of the events that marked 2019 and one unmistakable conclusion is that it was undoubtedly a monumental year that was fraught with risks and uncertainties over the future of the nation; not the least of which was the general elections that saw the […]

Justice Othman Musa of an Abuja High Court yesterday said he was returning the case file of Mohammed Adoke, a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), to the chief judge of the Federal Capital Territory. Musa said this at the resumed sitting scheduled for hearing of Adoke’s bail application over the $1.2 billion Malabu […]

The Kwara State government has finally demolished the property belonging to the Second Republic Senate Leader, the late Dr. Olusola Saraki, located along Ilofa road, GRA, Ilorin. The demolition, according to eyewitness accounts, was effected early Thursday morning by the officials of the state government. It was further learnt that the demolition of the house […]

Some bank customers have frowned at their banks for not complying with the new CBN guidelines for charges on Automated Teller Machine (ATM), released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Some of the customers who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, regretted that banks had now devised a means of […]