A man, who claimed to be a pastor, Rev. Praise Bassey, has been arrested by the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, for allegedly duping a contractor (name withheld) of N3m. Bassey, who runs his church, Household of Destiny, from his three-bedroom apartment at Gani Dabiri Street, Ajao Estate, was said to have collected the money […]
Femi Makinde writes on the dispute between Governor Kayode Fayemi and the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele The Action Congress of Nigeria in Ekiti State has been polarised by the insistence of the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, […]
Operatives of the Joint Task Force have made a breakthrough in the campaign against terrorism by arresting in-laws of the Boko Haram leader, Sheik Abubakar Shekau. The Defence Spokesman, Brig. Gen Chris Olukolade, made this known during a press briefing by the Joint Security Services Public Information Committee in Abuja on Monday. Olukolade however did […]
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party took a new turn on Monday with the party’s National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, asking members of the National Convention Committee headed by Prof. Jerry Gana to stay action on the plan. The decision to suspend the action of the committee, which had earlier fixed the national convention […]
Wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, on Monday faulted the contributions of some unnamed persons she referred to as “otherwise respected elders” who, by their views, had been contributing to the crisis in Rivers State. While describing their utterances as unfortunate, she called on all feuding parties in the state to sheathe their swords […]
WHEN Nigeria dispatched a jet from its Presidential Air Fleet late last month to fetch Malawi’s President, Joyce Banda, to Abuja, it unwittingly drew attention to our government’s fiscal recklessness. It was lost on President Goodluck Jonathan that while Banda had sold her cash-strapped country’s only presidential jet to save costs, he has, in three […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday arraigned one Omoike Emmanuel, a suspected internet fraudster before Justice E. F. Ikponmwen of Edo State High Court, Benin, on an 8-count charge bordering on internet fraud and obtaining by false pretence. One of the counts read; “that you, Omoike Emmanuel on or about the 29th […]
NIGERIANS living in Turkey have appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately recall the country’s ambassador to that country, Ambassador Mallam Muderi for his alleged inability to address the issues concerning Nigerians in that country. Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian community in Turkey, Johnson Iwedinauwa regretted that all the effort made by the community […]
Abia governor, chief Theodore Orji has urged people of the state residing in China to be good ambassadors while in the Asian country. In a statement by the chief press secretary, Ugochukwu Emezue,the governor in a town hall meeting told them to be law abiding and shun the urge to push hard drugs. According to […]
The leader of Islamist militants group, Boko Haram, has denied reaching a cease fire deal with the federal government saying “we will not enter into any truce with the Nigerian government.” Also, the group claimed responsibility for the last weekend attack on Yobe School where 29 students were massacred. The Minister of Special Duties, Kabiru […]
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