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The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has announced on Wednesday that the federal government has suspended the sack of members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), pending the conclusion of the ongoing negotiations on the matter. This decision was reached at the mediatory meeting initiated by the Speaker of the House of […]

Business Mogul, Jimoh Ibrahim, has appeared before the Senate Committee on Aviation and Anti-corruption on Wednesday, and said he neither got any loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria through Bank of Industry in the name of Air Nigeria nor diverted N35.5billion Aviation intervention funds to his businesses in Ghana as being alleged. Ibrahim who […]

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has Wednesday unveiled a three day burial programme for late Super Eagles handler, Stephen Keshi. The soccer federation after a meeting with the Keshi family yesterday in Abuja agreed that the burial rites of the coach would run from  27th -29th July. According to a competent source at the meeting, the […]

A coalition of militant groups under the aegis of  Ultimate Warriors of the Niger Delta (UWND) on Wednesday said their patience was running out over failure of the government to open negotiation with them, two weeks after declaring a ceasefire. A statement by the group’s Media Director, Sibiri Taiowoh, titled, ‘If you make the peaceful […]

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has on Wednesday appointed Mr Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo as its Head of Media and Public Affairs. The appointment was communicated in a statement signed by the acting Director-General of the Forum, Alhaji Abdullatif Shittu. According to the statement  Director-General anticipates that Bello-Barkindo would bring to the forum, his several decades of […]

A Non-Governmental Organization, Coalition Against Political Victimization, has strongly condemned what it termed as political victimization and persecution of the leadership of the Senate, stressing that it is a major threat to democracy if allowed to continue. President of the coalition, Abdulsamad Amadi in a statement issued and made available to Journalists in Kaduna on […]

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has revealed  how his election was funded two years ago by the Zenith Bank Plc, fund raising, donations from friends and associates as well as sales of campaign souvenirs. “I have no financial transaction whatsoever with the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) under Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) […]

‎The decomposing body of the The Vicar General of Catholic Diocese of Otukpo and Parish Priest of Catholic Church, Okpoga, Rev Fr John Adeyi who was kidnapped on Sunday 24th April by unknown gunmen, was found in Otukpa, Ogbadibo local government of Benue State. His remains was discovered behind the local government council secretariat this […]

The “Aisha Buhari “Halliburton confusion has taken a dramatic twist, as the lady who shares the same name with the President’s wife, and whose passport was circulated, said she was not the person referred to in the bribery scandal. According to her, some persons in government in Nigeria forged her passport. Ex EFCC boss, Ibrahim […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the forthcoming Edo State governorship election, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, has picked Prince Odi Okojie, Mercy Johnson’s husband as his running mate. Before his announcement, Prince Odi’s deputy governor’s flyer under PDP had flooded Edo state. Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu who defeated two other aspirants during PDP primary election […]

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, has said the Aisha Buhari mention in the bribery scandal involving a United States of America Congressman, Williams Jefferson, is not President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife. Lamorde, in an interview with our correspondent on Tuesday, said as one of those involved in the case […]

Justice Yusuf Halilu of an Abuja High Court sitting in Jabi, on Tuesday, deferred the arraignment of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and forgery, till June 27. The court also ordered substituted service of the charge on the defendants by pasting it […]