Category: Metro
Over 600 inmates including Boko Haram members, Abba Kyari escape as terrorists attack Kuje prison
The ministry of interior says about 600 inmates escaped from Kuje prison in the federal capital territory (FCT).
This is despite earlier wa [...]
OPEC Sec Gen, Barkindo dies after meeting with Buhari
The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Muhammad Barkindo, is dead.
Barkindo died late Tuesday.
The Group Ma [...]
FG replaces newly appointed accountant-general
Sylva Okolieaboh, a director at the Treasury Single Account (TSA) department, has replaced Chukwuyere Anamekwe as acting accountant-general of the fed [...]
Court jails Nigerian senator for seven years
Peter Nwaoboshi, senator representing Delta North senatorial district, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for money laundering.
The senat [...]
Ekweremadu’s counsel reveals how organ donor, David Ukpo refused to return to Nigeria, lied about his age
Legal counsel to senator Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, has explained how David Ukpo Nwamini, the would-be kidney donor refused [...]
Ekweremadu drags NIMC, NIS to court over controversy on organ donor’s real age
Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, have sued the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) and others over c [...]
Sterling Bank staff disappears with customers’ N300m
Fame-Eruagbere, a staff of Sterling Bank Plc, Effurun, Delta State Branch, is currently on the run after allegedly defrauding customers of the bank of [...]
Tinubu blames Senator Afikuyomi for irregularities in school certificates
The Bola Tinubu Campaign Headquarters on Saturday said the recent certificate forgery charges against the former Lagos governor stemmed from a 1999 in [...]
The heroin connection: Why APC presidential flag bearer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is unable to visit the United States
Facts have emerged that the erstwhile Governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu may have been involved in a heroin trafficking network which operat [...]
Former First Bank employees arraigned for attempting to commit N20bn fraud
The trial of three former employees with the First Bank of Nigeria facing attempted fraud charges before a Lagos state special offences court, Ikeja, [...]