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Former Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, his company, Dextra Investment Ltd, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on November 26 adopt their final written addresses in the trial of Metuh and his company for alleged N400m fraud.   Trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, on Tuesday fixed […]

A meeting convened by governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with the leadership of the National Assembly to promote government’s policies that require legislative support was yesterday disrupted in Abuja when the lingering feud between Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki and APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole was mentioned.   House Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, announced […]

South Africa has increased its minimum wage to N126,480 per month. The news is coming at a time Nigerian workers are planning to go on strike amid uncertainty over the federal government’s pussy-footing over the N30, 000 minimum wage. The Global Wage Report 2018/19 released yesterday reveals that the world’s wage growth also hit a […]

An FCT High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed December 11, for hearing in the trial of rtd Col. Sambo Dasuki and four others over alleged misappropriation of N19.4 billion arms funds. Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf adjourned the trial after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Counsel, Mr Oluwaleken Atolegbe, holding the brief for […]

The 2019 BBNaija PepperDem officially has a winner and it is no other than Mercy Lambo. The battle for the N60million prize money which began 99 days ago is one that saw many fights, raised questions on morals and was the most controversial yet.   Mercy, the last woman standing, won with a wide margin […]

Arguing that Nigerians already knew the story of former president Goodluck Jonathan’s habitual negligence to importance matters of state, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), in an unprecedented display of Nigeria’s dog-eat politics, ripped Jonathan over claims by former British prime minister, David Cameron that the Jonathan administration rejected an offer by the United Kingdom […]

The Presidency says the extraordinary Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, originally scheduled to hold on Saturday, has been shifted to 12 noon on Monday, October, 7. Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja, Friday night. According to him, the meeting is to […]

The apex Ogoni socio-cultural group, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has described the purported acquisition of Oil Mining License (OML) 11 by the Rivers State government and other parties involved as “null and void.” It should be recalled that Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, in an Independence Day broadcast, announced that […]

Dangote Tomatoes Processing Plant has established a N3 billion Green House nursery in Kano, designed to process over 300 to 350 million tons of hybrid tomato seedlings expected to make Nigeria self-sufficient in tomatoes production. The Managing-Director of the Farm, Mr. Abdulkarim Lawal Kaita, said that the nursery would facilitate increased production of high quality […]

Abductors of the six female students and two staff of Engravers College, Kakau Daji, in Chikun LGA of Kaduna state have demanded for a N50 million ransom. The students and the staff were abducted on Thursday at about 12:10am when the bandits invaded the school.   One of the two security guards in the school […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja Friday granted Omoyele Sowore, convener of the nationwide #RevolutionNow protests and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, bail. The trial judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu imposed a N100 million bail on Sowore, with two sureties in a like sum. Bakare got a N50 million bail. Ojukwu ordered that the duo be […]

The Supreme Court yesterday struck out the appeal filed by the presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party (HDP), Chief Ambrose Owuru, seeking the nullification of President Muhammadu Buhari’s election in the February 23 election. The appeal was thrown out on the ground that Owuru and HDP engaged in gross abuse of court processes by filing […]