FG to spend N4.8bn on Villa maintenance in 2018
Ifeanyi Onuba and Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Federal Government is proposing to spend N4.86bn in the 2018 fiscal year on maintenance of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The budgeted amount for next year...
View Article18 die as suicide bombers attack Borno
Kayode Idowu, Maiduguri Fourteen persons were on Wednesday killed in Borno State as four suicide bombers launched attacks on the troubled town. Twenty-nine persons were injured in the attack that...
View ArticleBVN: Court relaxes conditions to unfreeze unlinked accounts
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday modified its orders made on October 17, 2017 directing the 19 commercial banks in the country to freeze all accounts without Bank...
View ArticleJAMB fixes March 9 to 17 for 2018 UTME
Olaleye Aluko, Abuja The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in 2018 will hold from March 9 to March 17 in about 620 computer-based test...
View ArticleWe are not fooled by President’s visit, says MASSOB
Ihuoma Chiedozie, Enugu The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra on Wednesday said ‘Biafrans’ were not fooled by President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the South-East. The...
View ArticleDisplaced Otodo Gbame residents protest at Ambode’s office
Samson Folarin Some of the former dwellers of Otodo Gbame, a slum in the Lekki area of Lagos State, on Wednesday stormed the Lagos House, Ikeja, to demand the resettlement of over 30,000 displaced...
View ArticleBaba Sala down with a stroke, cries for help
Sodiq Oyeleke Veteran comedian, Moses Olaiya, popularly known as Baba Sala, has solicited the financial support of well-meaning Nigerians for him to be able to take care of his health. The comedian,...
View Article$21.7bn missing from NNPC since 1999, says Falana
A human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN), on Wednesday accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation of failing to remit over $21.7bn and N376bn since 1999. The human rights activist said instead...
View ArticleZimbabwean military places Mugabe under house arrest
Zimbabwe’s military said on Wednesday that it was holding President Robert Mugabe and his family safe while targeting “criminals” in the entourage of Mugabe who has ruled the South African nation for...
View ArticleNdume resumes, Senate ignores lawmaker’s ‘special request’
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja Lawmaker representing Borno South Senatorial District, Senator Ali Ndume, resumed on Wednesday from his six-month suspension by the Senate. Ndume, at the plenary on Wednesday,...
View ArticleNo pay, no vote for you, ex-councillors tell Obiano
Tony Okafor, Awka Former local government councillors in Anambra State on Wednesday protested in Awka, the state capital, over alleged arrears of entitlements owed them by the state government. They...
View ArticleMugabe resisting army pressure to quit: senior source
President Robert Mugabe is insisting he remains Zimbabwe’s only legitimate ruler, an intelligence source said on Thursday. The source said Mugabe is resisting mediation by a Catholic priest to allow...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Catholic priest mediating potential Mugabe exit
A Catholic priest is mediating a potential political exit for Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, although the 93-year-old is insisting he can only be removed via a party leadership vote, political and...
View ArticleIran quake survivors spend second night in the open
Tens of thousands of Iranians spent a second night in the open after a 7.3-magnitude quake struck near the border with Iraq, killing more than 400 people. Residents who had fled their homes when...
View ArticleLondon tower blaze killed 70 – Police
Seventy people died when a ferocious fire ripped through their London apartment block in June, British police concluded Thursday after a probe which “pushed the boundaries” of scientific investigation....
View ArticleBenin joins MNJTF, deploys 150 troops to fight Boko Haram
The Republic of Benin has deployed 150 soldiers to the Multinational Joint Task Force to fight Boko Haram insurgents in the Lake Chad region, an official has disclosed. The Chief Military Public...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Oxfam expresses hope democracy will hold after military takeover
International charity Oxfam has expressed hope that democracy in Zimbabwe would hold, after the country’s military took over. Stewart Muchapera, Oxfam’s media and communications adviser for Southern...
View ArticleRivers lawmakers beg FG to redeploy SARS Commander
Lawmakers in Nigeria’s oil rich state, Rivers, have urged the Federal Government to redeploy the state Commander of the Special Anti-rubbery Squad as part of efforts to stem insecurity. The members of...
View ArticleLagos police disperse evicted Otodo-Gbame protesters
Police broke up a sit-in protest in Lagos early Thursday, dispersing hundreds of former slum-dwellers demanding compensation after being evicted from their waterfront homes. Some 600 people from the...
View ArticlePhone thief jailed 12 months
An Ojo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday sentenced a phone thief, Kelvin Yahaya, to 12 months imprisonment for stealing three phones belonging to students of Lagos State University. The convict,...
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