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Nigeria’s former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki has denied ever been invited before any panel to render his stewardship during the last administration. He made the statement on Wednesday in response to the interim report of the investigative committee on arms procurement during the administrations of former Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan in […]

Company secretary and legal adviser of Dangote Flour Plc, Aisha Ladi Isa has notified the Management of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), of the company’s change of name to Tiger Branded Consumer Goods Plc. The new name is to better reflect the new ownership of the company as the change in the substantial ownership and […]

Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown for the first time in 2015, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed. According to the latest dater from the NBS Nigeria has recorded a GDP growth of 2.84percent in real terms during the month of July to September 2015. This reflects a 0.49percent increase from the […]

Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki  has said the Assembly will in investigating the alleged N25 billion Treasury Single Account (TSA) fraud, despite intimidations from many quarters. Saraki made the statement on Tuesday in response to a motion moved by Sen. Dino Melaye in respect of a newspaper article allegedly blackmailing the Senate for pointing out […]

The immediate past Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Lamorde has travelled abroad for medical treatment. The revelation was made by Larmorde’s attorney, Festus Keyamo at a meeting with members of the Senate Committee on Ethics on Tuesday. Lamorde was scheduled to appear before the Senate committee over allegations of mismanagement […]

President Mohammadu Buhari, Tuesday received interim report of the 13 man committee set up by the Office of  the National Security Adviser to audit the procurement of arms and equipment in the Armed Forces and Defence sector from 2007 to date. A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on media, said that […]

Madam Ogere Siasia, Coach Samson Siasia’s aged mother has been kidnapped. The mother of the Dream Team VI Coach was abducted by heavily armed gunmen who stormed her house in Odoni village, Saghama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Monday, according to sources close to the coach. The abductors were said to have laid […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has dismissed as a contrived distraction the alleged fraud in the Treasury Single Account (TSA) and the rumoured diversion of the TSA funds to bankroll elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States. In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, the Minister said if those behind the […]

The Save Nigeria Group (SNG) has warned that it will mobilise Nigerians for a torrential protest march, if President Muhammadu Buhari does not remove the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Justice Danladi Umar, within the next 72 hours. The group issued the warning at a press conference it held in Abuja on […]

Notwithstanding the amount of publication to convince lawmakers of the importance of social media presence, no single one of the 109 Senators attended the online  training organised on Monday by the office of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. None of the lawmakers’ aides also attended. The workshop was organised for the senators and their aides and […]

First term lawmakers of the Lagos State House of Assembly are to be given a car each by the state government which has secured the approval of N352,973,986 from the state House of Assembly for the purpose. The approval for the amount was unanimously passed with a voice vote after the Speaker of the House, […]

Troops of 7 Division Garrison Nigerian Army in the Operation Lafiya Dole, have arrested a Boko Haram terror kingpin named John Trankil. Trankil, one of those declared wanted by the Army, was nabbed at Kasuwar Shanu in Maiduguri metropolis. According to Colonel Tukur Ismail Gusau, Media Coordinator of Operation Lafiya Dole, the suspect confessed that […]