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Feb 26, 2020

BREAKING: Court to deliver judgment in APC’s request to review Bayelsa judgment

The Supreme Court has fixed judgment for Wednesday in the application by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for a review of its judgment in the Bayelsa State g...

Feb 26, 2020

BREAKING: Buhari inaugurates new NASS Service Commission

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated Engr. Ahmed Kadi Amshi and 11 others as chairman and members of the National Assembly Service Commission. The cere...

Feb 26, 2020

UPDATES: Supreme Court Hears Application For Review Of Judgment Sacking Lyon

The Supreme Court is currently hearing the application for review of the judgment which sacked the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC)...

Feb 26, 2020

Bayelsa gov: Tight security as Supreme Court hears APC’s motion to review judgment

There is tight security in and around the Supreme Court on Wednesday as it hears an application by the All Progressives Congress to review its Feb. 13 judgment...

Feb 26, 2020

Police need 250,000 rifles, 1,000 APCs, 774 drones – IG

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday said apart from inadequate personnel, the Nigeria Police Force needed no fewer than 1,000 armoured...

Feb 26, 2020

Senate seeks military base in Sambisa borders

THE Senate is seeking the re-establishment of a military base at the Sambisa forest borders. This resolution was the unanimously adopted following the debate...

Feb 26, 2020

Rohr parleys with Eagles over Sierra Leone • To finalize Eagles list on Monday • Impressed with Heracles striker Cyriel Dessers

Barring any last minute alterations, the 23-man Super Eagles list for the March double header against Sierra Leone will be delivered by Coach Gernot Rohr on Mon...

Feb 26, 2020

My boyfriend introduced me to kidnapping, suspect tells police

A 32-YEAR-old woman identified as Hassana Bala has been arrested by police in Niger State for attempting to kidnap a 23-year-old man, Umar Sarkin Turaku of Kaw...

Feb 26, 2020

EFCC signs pact with ABU

THE Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, yesterday said the agency’s academy will offer courses on how to...

Feb 26, 2020

Minimum wage: NLC state councils to take action against erring govts

Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has directed its state councils to go on strike if any state government fails to implement the N30,000 new national minimum wage....

Feb 26, 2020

Niger Delta students thank Buhari

NIGER Delta Students Union Government (NIDSUG) has hailled President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing Prof. Kememabradikumo Pondei as acting managing director of...

Feb 26, 2020

Gbajabiamila: we won’t accept extrajudicial killings

SPEAKER of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila has said that the House would not accept extra-judicial killings, harassment, intimidation or any othe...

Feb 26, 2020

Beggars protest ‘harassment’ by govt officials

FOR the second time within the last one month, thousands of beggars yesterday laid siege to the entrance of the Lagos State House of Assembly and the Governor’s...

Feb 26, 2020

Boy, 16, hides in bank overnight to steal N340,000

A 16-YEAR-old boy, who allegedly hid in a bank toilet overnight and stole N340,000, was yesterday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The...

Feb 25, 2020

Bill on immunity for presiding officers of legislature passes second reading

A bill to alter the constitution to extend constitutional immunity to Presiding Officers of the Legislature narrowly scaled through second reading on the floor...

Feb 25, 2020

Buhari approves NHCC membership

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the constitution of a National Humanitarian Coordination Committee (NHCC) to oversee humanitarian activities in the coun...

Feb 25, 2020

BREAKING: New Speaker, Deputy emerge in Kaduna

Hon. Yusuf Ibrahim Zailani has been elected as the new Kaduna Speaker. His election came barely an hour after Hon Amknu Abdullahi Shagali resigned as Speaker...

Feb 25, 2020

BREAKING: Why Kaduna Speaker resigned

Reasons why Kaduna Speaker, Hon. Aminu Abdullahi Shagali resigned his position have started emerging. The ex-Speaker, who represents Sabon-Gari Constituency in...

Feb 25, 2020

BREAKING: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak dies at 91

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s president for almost 30 years who stepped down after a popular revolution in 2011, has died. He was 91. Mubarak served as Egypt’s four...

Feb 25, 2020

Five JAMB staff, NSCDC operatives kidnapped in Kogi released

The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the release of all the five Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) staffs kidnapped along the Obajana-Kabba...