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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says it has arrested a suspected drug baron, Afam Emmanuel Ukatu, who is linked with the N3billion Tramadol deal involving the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari-led Intelligence Response Team.   Besides the record N3 billion tramadol deal, Ukatu is said to be operating 103 bank accounts, most […]

Scores of people have been killed in southeast Nigeria after an illegal petroleum refinery exploded, the authorities said Saturday.   The explosion, which some say might have killed over 100 people, occurred Friday night at the Abaezi forest in the Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, while the illegal refinery being operated there exploded. […]

Gov Aminu Tambuwal, a presidential aspirants on the platform of PDP has dismissed reports that northern consensus presidential candidates for the Peoples Democratic Party had been chosen.   “Northern Consensus Drive Failed. Therefore, I’m Not Part of Any Agreement. – AWT” Tambuwal stated on his twitter handle.    In the same vein, the Tambuwal Campaign […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja urged entrepreneurs and investors to channel ideas and resources into areas of the economy that stimulate growth, with long-term effect on job creation and poverty reduction, assuring that fixing infrastructure remains government’s top priority.   Receiving Chairman of Dangote Industries Ltd, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, and Board members of the […]

  Former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has been sacked by the court from the House for defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC).   Dogara represents Bogoro/Dass Federal constituency of Bauchi State.   He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives between 2015 and 2019 and was re-elected back to the House […]

Nigeria’s former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has asked his supporters to watch out for his next political moves in the country, with regard to next year’s presidential election.   Jonathan spoke as he responded to a large crowd of supporters who besieged his Abuja office on Friday, asking him to run for the office that he […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and presidential aspirant on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and a former governor of Anambra State and presidential aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi, have emerged the most preferred presidential aspirants in the upcoming Nigeria general elections scheduled for February 2023. […]

The Imo State Police Command on Friday announced it has arrested a man suspected to be the manufacturer of bombs being used by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.   The Police identified the alleged manufacturer as 50-year-old Simeon Onigbo.   Imo State has been the hotbed of IPOB fight for the independence of the […]

Nigeria cannot adopt a freely floating exchange rate system now given the perculiar challenges the country is facing, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has said.   Emefiele told journalists in an interview at the ongoing IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington DC, United States of America, that adopting such […]

Rivers State governor and a PDP presidential aspirant, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday said if elected as President, he will take the war to bandits, saying that when they hear his name, they will run away.   He also said the establishment of a State police would be one enduring approach to addressing the festering insecurity […]

 President Muhammadu Buhari mourns the tragic and unfortunate death of two officers in a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane crash in Kaduna.    Reacting to the death of Flight Lieutenant Abubakar Alkali and Flight Lieutenant Elijah Haruna Karatu, the President said:    “I am shocked beyond words by the demise of these two promising young […]

The All Progressives Congress has pegged its presidential nomination and expression of interest forms at N100 million.   The party also said its presidential candidate will be chosen through an indirect primary election. By this, APC has effectively jettisoned the much-touted consensus rule in the choice of its candidate.   These decisions were taken on […]