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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 […]

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 […]

The House of Representatives has resolved to probe all the roads constructed by the Federal Government across the country between 2007 and present time. The House adopted a motion of urgent public importance titled “Motion on the Daily Death of Nigerians as result of Bad Roads in Nigeria,” was moved by Hon. Dachung Musa Bagus. […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned the duo of Brig.Gen. Tarelah Paul Boroh (rtd) and Hanafi Musa Moriki, before Justice O. O. Goodluck of the FCT High Court, Abuja.   They are being tried on a nine-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust and financial misconduct amounting to the tune of […]

Barring any change of plans for the presentation of the 2020 budget proposal to the National Assembly next week, President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday preside over an emergency Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the presidential villa, Abuja.   It was gathered Wednesday night that the Extraordinary FEC will be presided by the President […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa have endorsed the establishment of an early warning mechanism as part of efforts being put in place by both countries to forestall further xenophobic attacks in the rainbow nation. The two leaders also directed their foreign ministers to give practical expression to the Early Warning […]

Ahead of the November 16 gubernatorial election in Kogi State, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, has waded into the crisis in the state’s chapter of the party, saying unity among the warring factions is needed to win the general election.    […]