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With his defeat in the US presidential election, Donald Trump finds himself fighting against being tagged with a label he frequently applies to rivals but which runs completely counter to his own brand: “loser.”   The Republican is pursuing legal action in several battleground states, though his lawyers have so far failed to substantiate claims […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate reinstatement of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogindipe as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos.      He also ordered the immediate dissolution of the Governing Council of the tvarsity, headed by Dr Wale Babalakin.     The orders followed Buhari’s  acceptance of the report of the Special Visitation Panel […]

Nigerian billionaire Benedict Peters has made plans to develop a platinum mine in Zimbabwe with at least a billion dollars, according to Bloomberg News.   The Platinium mine is located in Selous, the south of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital. It is also close to present platinum mines, and comprises a 3,000 hectare (7,413-acre) concession.   The […]

Contrary to reports by Bloomberg that Dangote Cement was granted sole approval to export cement through the land borders, information has emerged that other companies also got approval to export through the land borders.   Nigerian Customs Service has reportedly revealed that BUA Group and a gas company have also received presidential approval to move […]

  …accuses account owners of terrorism   The Central Bank of Nigeria was able to secure authority to freeze the accounts of #EndSARS campaigners by accusing them of engaging in acts of terrorism.   With that, the Federal Government was able to freeze the accounts of 20 #EndSARS campaigners after it told a Federal High […]

  The Lagos State Governor, Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday proposed a budget estimate of N1,155,022,413,005.82 for 2021, christened ‘budget of rekindled hope’.   The governor made the presentation at the Lagos State House of Assembly Chambers, Alausa Ikeja.   Sanwo-Olu said his administration negotiated and was able to save about N12 billion from the restructuring […]

An activist, Kenechukwu Okeke, who lost property during the recent protests in the country, has filed a criminal complaint before a Chief Magistrate’s court in Abuja against 50 persons for the part they allegedly played in the #EndSARS protests.    Okeke alleged that during the riot, his properties were destroyed and the defendants who promoted […]

A younger brother to the Deputy Governor of Edo state has been kidnapped by gunmen. The younger brother, identified as Frederick Shaibu, was kidnapped as he went to drop his children in their school near Benin City, the capital of the state. The kidnap took place on Monday, according to a family source. He was […]

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos State, in a brave move on Tuesday announced his intention to repeal the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension Law 2007), which provides for payment of pension and other entitlements to former Governors and their Deputies.   He made this known while presenting the 2021 budget to the Lagos State […]

The founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Mr. Atedo Peterside, has faulted the Federal Government’s decision to allow only Dangote Industries Limited to move goods across the country’s land borders, which have been closed for over a year.   Nigeria shut its land borders with its West African neighbours in August 2019, in the government’s […]