FURTHER details have emerged as to the reasons that led President Goodluck Jonathan to relieve the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, of her position. Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the final straw that compelled President Jonathan to effect the removal had to do with a representation of […]
THE Kano State police command has arrested one Shu’abiu Jibrin (80), for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl, just as the command also paraded a 65-year-old man, Ado Shehu, for allegedly raping another four-year-old girl. This is just as the command also nabbed a dismissed police corporal for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl. Disclosing this on Wednesday […]
A self-acclaimed man of God, Pastor Chukwudi Ibe, of Divine Power Ministry in Onitsha, is currently cooling his feet in a police cell over gross abuse of his ward. The pastor, with a hot electric iron, had inflicted severe burns on the 11-year-old boy, identified as Friday, who he accused of stealing N200 and keeping bad […]
Residents of Oremeji at Aradagun near Badagry, Lagos State, were, on Sunday, thrown into shock when a man presumed dead suddenly woke up after three days in the mortuary. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the man, simply identified as Mr Agosu, died of an undisclosed illness on Friday in a hospital and his […]
The Senate Ad hoc Committee on Privatisation has indicted former Directors-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises for their roles in the sale of Federal Government enterprises from 1999 to date. The former BPE bosses, namely Dr. Julius Bala, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and Mrs. Irene Chigbue were recommended for reprimand by the committee for seeking […]
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Wednesday in Zaria, Kaduna State, warned that Nigeria had started drifting. Abubakar expressed fears about the fate of the Nigerian nation and stressed that the country appeared to have lost direction. The Sultan, who is also the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic […]
The United Nations, the World Bank, governors and prominent Nigerians on Wednesday joined others to mourn and extol the virtues of the late The Guardian publisher, Alex Ibru, who died on Sunday. Empowered Newswire reported that the AU-UN Joint Special Representative in Darfur, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari; Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Prof. Joy Ogwu; […]
Sylva File The dust raised by the governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State on Saturday has not settled. MIKE ODIEGWUin this report asks whether indeed there was a contest. AN entertainment mogul and entrepreneur, Ben Bruce, may have been tricked into joining the race for the governorship ticket […]
Chief Bola Tinubu File The National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Chief Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday said his party would “capitalise on the crisis” rocking the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State. Tinubu, who spoke to journalists at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, said his party […]
A Lagos High Court in Ikeja will on Thursday (today), deliver judgement in the N100m suit filed by popular actor, Mr. Babatunde Omidina, also known as Baba Suwe, against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. In the suit, Baba Suwe is demanding N100m from the NDLEA as compensation for allegedly denying him of his rights […]
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