The Plateau State House of Assembly under the leadership of the new Speaker, Yakubu Sanda, sat on Friday and relocated the assembly’s subsequent sittings to the old Government House, Jos. The assembly has been enmeshed in leadership crises following the...
Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) governorship candidate in the November 6 election in Anambra, on Friday received his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the state Governor-Elect. INEC National Commissioner Supervising...
The Department of State Services (DSS), Kano State Command, has arrested three suspected members of a notorious syndicate that specialises in trailing people to banks to rob them after withdrawing money from the banks. The Director of DSS in the...
It is possible that the first contact was made in 1601 between the French and the peoples of “Guinee” – the name for the lands we know today as Nigeria. Only a few years before, the then Protestant King...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Command, have arrested Precious Ofure Omonkhoa for an alleged $200,000 bitcoin investment scam. Upon his arrest, the suspect confessed to have laundered the proceeds of his fraudulent activities by purchasing a piece of land worth $150,000 through...
Justice Sherifat Solebo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Friday remanded Chima Igwe, a former Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO) for alleged certificate fraud. Solebo held that Igwe should be kept at the Kirikiri...
The Nigeria Police have said that the body of the missing Vanguard Newspaper reporter, Tordue Salem was found at the Wuse General Hospital Mortuary in Abuja. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr. Frank Mba, announced this at a news conference...
The Senator Andy Uba Campaign Organisation has explained why it rejected the result of the just-concluded Anambra governorship election, held on November 6. Spokesperson for the organisation, Mr. Jerry Ugokwe, in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, described the...
The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has stated that the Yoruba nation will demand substantial restructuring of Nigeria before any election could be held in 2023. Acting leader of the group, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, told newsmen in Lagos that Afenifere will...
Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has mocked critics of the administration, telling them that the market is over. Adesina in an article titled ‘They said nothing was happening...how about these?’ lampooned critics...