A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra leader, Nnamdi Kanu, will on Friday release a cheque of N1m for his drugs and feeding. This was as the Special Counsel to Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, raised the alarm after visiting Kanu with his...

A former senator representing the Rivers South-East district in the National Assembly, Lee Maeba, and the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Okon Effiong, are on a collision course over an alleged attack on the former’s residence by suspected political thugs in GRA Phase 3, Port Harcourt, last Thursday. While...

The House of Representatives has demanded the relocation of a Federal Medical Centre from Daura, the hometown of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to Funtua in Katsina State. The federal parliament particularly urged the Federal Ministry of Health to “reconsider the process of converting Daura General Hospital...

The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria in the 19 Northern States and Abuja, Rev. Yakubu Pam, has called on presidential candidates of the various political parties participating in the 2023 general election not to view it as a do-or-die affair. This was as he urged Christians to...

The Department of State Services has informed Nigerians that, despite efforts to damage the service’s reputation, it will continue to carry out its duty in accordance with international best practices. Claims that suspects were being mistreated and denied access to their attorneys in detention were referred to as untrue...

Political parties’ flagbearers especially presidential candidates and other political actors have been urged to avoid using provocative language and negative profiling before, during, and after the 2023 elections. The Kaduna State Peace Commission dropped the advice on Thursday at a high-level meeting of political parties, candidates, and stakeholders for...

A skin-care therapist, Pamela Onyeagusi, and an Abuja National Industrial Court judge, Justice Zainab Bashir, have traded blame following unsuccessful cosmetic procedures which left burns on the latter’s skin. The therapist accused the judge of harassing and making life unbearable for her after she (Bashir) complained that the cosmetic...

By Temitope Ponle The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), has shared N902.053 billion to the three tiers of government as Federation Allocation for the month of November. From N902.053 billion, the Federal Government received N358.515 billion, the states received N270.836 billion, and the Local Government Councils got N204.130 billion. Meanwhile,...

The Federal Government will complete the concession of the $1.3bn Zungeru Hydroelectric Power Plant by March next year and will commence operations by the second quarter of the same year, has learnt. This follows the recent flagging off of the bid process by the Bureau of Public Enterprise. The...

By Paul Iyoghojie The Operatives of the Force Intelligence Bureau, FIB, Force Headquarters Annex, Lagos, Nigeria have arrested a Lebanese, Ahmad AL-Youssef, 65, and charged him before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court. AL-Youssef was accused of duping a customer, Alhaji Mansur J. Musa of the sum of $173,450 equivalent to...

The Oodua People Congress has advised the Federal Government to relocate the Kwara State capital from Ilorin to a neutral ground that is away from the present location if the Muslims refuse to accommodate people of other religions. The state coordinator of OPC, New Era in Kwara State, Comrade...

The La Roja of Spain have defeated the Lionesses of England to win their first FIFA Women’s World Cup hosted by Australia and New Zealand. Twenty-three-year old Olga Carmona Garcia, who plays for Real Madrid scored the only goal of the match on 29 minutes. Any potential nerves of...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA on Saturday 19th August, uncovered multi-billion naira worth of illicit drugs at a warehouse tucked in the midst of popular International Trade Fair Complex, Alaba, Ojo area of Lagos. The warehouse is owned by a wanted billionaire drug baron. Drugs...

cost the Central Bank of Nigeria and its subsidiary about N74.84bn to produce and roll out currencies, including new naira notes, in 2022. Despite the scarcity of naira that plagued the country in the latter months of 2022, the CBN spent 40.42 per cent more than the N53.29bn it...

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Segun Showunmi, has said that the 2023 presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, chose the path of legality to seek redress at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal because he is a democrat. Showunmi, who stated this in Abuja on Sunday at...