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January 11, 2016

Despite calls for his arrest in the $2.1 billion arms deal involving his National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki...

Police corporal, friend shot dead in Lagos

January 11, 2016

The Lagos State Police Command has begun investigation into the deaths of a police corporal and one other person in...

$14bn refinery investment: CBN assures Dangote Group of support to get forex

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that it would assist the Dangote Group to access foreign exchange to...

For attempting to defraud Fayose, two fake security agents arrested in Ekiti

Two men, who claimed to be President Muhammadu Buhari’s private security aides, were on Saturday, arrested at the Afao-Ekiti country...

Dickson: No celebration because of those killed

Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, has thanked the electorate for their gallantry in ensuring his re-election for another...

Bayelsa: PDP jubilates, says it’s ‘a painful victory’

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated the people of Bayelsa State for their support for its candidate, Governor Henry...

Fayose hails Dickson’s victory, salutes Bayelsans for resisting ‘agents of darkness’

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has hailed the re-election of his Bayelsa State counterpart, Seriake Dickson, describing it as...

Jubilation in Bayelsa as Sylva fails in bid to unseat Dickson; PDP 134,998, APC 86,852

The hope of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Bayelsa State governorship election, Timipre Sylva, of governing the...

APC rejects Adamawa governorship supplementary election date

Akwa Ibom PDP tired of elections, says Gov. Emmanuel

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State on Saturday declared that the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...

Lai Mohammed visits Soyinka, says FG will make National Theatre ‘a magnet for creative arts’

The Federal Government has expressed its readiness to make the National Theatre what it should be - a magnet for...

Bayelsa: Four policemen, two soldiers, eight others feared killed; Dickson leads; hoodlums on the rampage, arrested

Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, on Saturday, condemned the electoral malpractice and violence which disrupted the supplementary elections...

After seven hours, DSS releases Faleke, Audu’s son

Kogi State Deputy Governor-elect, Mr James Faleke, has been released by operatives of the Directorate of the State Services (DSS)....

If drug cartel kingpin, El Chapo stays in Mexico, ‘absolutely nothing’ will change

The recapture of cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán will have no impact on Mexico’s multibillion-dollar drug trade unless he...

In NLC, it is crisis unlimited as reconciliation committee fails to resolve leadership crisis

by Robby Akeju

The Reconciliation Committee of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has failed to resolve the leadership crisis rocking the congress. The...

SIM registration: Knocks for MTN

As MTN continues to register SIM cards to upgrade data of subscribers in Abuja, many of them, on Friday, expressed...

Supplementary election: Guns boom in Bayelsa; hoodlums invade Gov’s Lodge, shoot ex-speaker, council chair; disarm policemen

Twenty four hours to the supplementary election in Bayelsa State, hoodlums went on the rampage on Friday, unleashing violence in...

Arraign Metuh if you have evidence of fraud against him, Family, Fayose, Ekweremadu tell EFCC, Buhari

The Obi-Ezeani family in Nnewi, Anambra State has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to release or...

FG to introduce death insurance for soldiers fighting insurgency

Minister of Defence, Brig.-Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali (rtd), said on Friday that the Federal Government would introduce insurance package for soldiers...

Ex-Customs CG’s nephew: How EFCC operatives stormed our house, held us hostage for five hours without a search warrant

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday raided the residence of the former Comptroller-General of Customs,...

Caudillo’s way and the road to despotism, by Uthman Shodipe