Category: News
Alleged budget padding: ‘Your aides didn’t brief you properly’ – N’assembly to Buhari
Two days after President Muhammadu Buhari expressed reservations over some alterations in the 2018 budget, both chambers of the national assembly have [...]
Dangote Cement pays 90% of net profits as dividend
Shareholders of Dangote Cement on Wednesday at the company’s 9th Annual General Meeting (AGM), held in Lagos were full of praise for the Board, Manage [...]
OAU sacks professor over sex-for-mark scandal
The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has announced the sacking of Prof. Richard Akindele for allegedly demanding sex from a student, Monica Osagie [...]
FG orders tighter security on local flights over ISIS threat
The federal government has ordered an intensified screening of passengers and luggage on news that the Islamic State of Iraq, ISIS and Syria is planni [...]
ISIS commanders sneaking jihadists into Nigeria from Syria
Leaders of Islamic State, otherwise known as ISIS are sneaking battle-hardened extremists from Syria into Nigeria, according to UK Sun. Some of the fi [...]
CAN seeks Buhari’s intervention over youths sentenced to death
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on President Muhammdu Buhari to ask the Adamawa state government not to implement the death sent [...]
Govt to set up ranches in Oyo, Benue, Kaduna, seven others
The Federal Government and states have agreed to set up cattle ranches in 10 states — Adamawa, Benue, Ebonyi, Edo, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Oyo, Plateau, Tar [...]
FG to disburse $322m Abacha loot directly to Nigerians
The FG is making final preparation to disburse $322 million fund repatriated from the accounts of former Head of State, late General Sani Abacha in Sw [...]
Casualty figure rises to three in Ojuelegba truck accident
Three people have been confirmed dead after piles of plywood fell off a truck on the Ojuelegba Bridge, Lagos State, on Tuesday. Two people had been re [...]
Kidnapper, Evans’ lawyer, Ogunbeje withdraws from his trial
Lead counsel to Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, suspected kidnap kingpin, better known as Evans, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has withdrawn from his client’s trial. I [...]