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Jan 29, 2020

‘Nigeria on track to commence rice exportation by 2022’

ncreased production and capacity utilisation by rice millers across the country, may have boosted Nigeria’s quest to commence exportation of Rice by 2022. Th...

Jan 29, 2020

INEC rejects Akwa Ibom rerun results, PDP wins in Imo

The Independent National Electoral Commission has rejected rerun results in areas that recorded violence and disruption on Saturday. INEC stated that the iso...

Jan 29, 2020

Mother, son jailed three years for Internet fraud

The Federal High Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, sentenced one Mrs. Damilola Adeyeri and her son, Alaba, to three years’ imprisonment for defrauding an American of...

Jan 29, 2020

Lalong spits fire over Jos killings as Reps accuse FG of complacency

Plateau State Governor, Simon Bako Lalong, yesterday spat fire over the recent killings in the state, declaring that he is not taking the matter lying low. H...

Jan 29, 2020

NAF to deploy jet, special forces in North-West

The Nigerian Air Force has said it will deploy additional air assets as well as NAF Regiment and Special Forces personnel to troubled areas in the north-western...

Jan 29, 2020

PDP reports APC govt to US Consul General

The Peoples Democratic Party said it had held a meeting with the United States Consul General, Ms Claire Pierangelo, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, and re...

Jan 29, 2020

Lassa fever killed my witness’ brother, Lawan tells court

Ex-chairman of the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee that investigated the fuel subsidy regime in 2012, Farouk Lawan, told the High Court of the Fed...

Jan 29, 2020

MTN budgets $1.6bn for investment in Nigeria

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has expressed delight as the Mobile Telephone Network (MTN) budgeted 1.6 billion dollars to...

Jan 29, 2020

Brexit to be sealed with final Brussels vote

Brexit Day is to be set in stone Wednesday when the European Parliament in Brussels casts a vote ratifying the terms of Britain’s divorce deal from the EU. T...

Jan 29, 2020

Coronavirus: FG to strengthen surveillance at 5 international airports

Federal Government has assured Nigerians of its readiness to strengthening surveillance at five international airports in the country to prevent the spread of C...

Jan 29, 2020

Major quake hits Caribbean, triggering evacuations

A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday in the Caribbean between Jamaica and Cuba, triggering a brief tsunami alert and sending hundreds of people pouri...

Jan 29, 2020

Update: New virus infects more than 6,000 in China, other countries

A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 6,000 people in the mainland and more than a dozen other countries. Some details on cases confirm...

Jan 29, 2020

Herders attack Nollywood actors, kill one

One person was reportedly killed by robbers suspected to be Fulani herdsmen who attacked some motorists, including some Nollywood actors along the Ogbomoso-Ilor...

Jan 29, 2020

Insecurity worsening, we must act now, National Assembly warns

• Afenifere warns against Amotekun, IG’s model merger The two chambers of the National Assembly on their resumption from a five-week recess on Tuesday revie...

Jan 29, 2020

Rerun victory: Ganduje, Doguwa meet Oshiomhole

The Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, and the former majority leader of the House of Representatives, Al-Hassan Doguwa, met the National Chairman of th...

Jan 28, 2020

SIM card: Court to hear suit against DSS, Buhari’s daughter Feb 12

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of a Federal High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State, has fixed February 12, 2020, for the hearing of a suit filed by a trader, Anthony O...

Jan 28, 2020

UPDATED: Buhari seeks confirmation of appointments into CBN, NCC, NCAA

he Senate has received a request from The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for the confirmation of Dr. Kingsley Isitua Obiora and Professor Ad...

Jan 28, 2020

Court varies Maina's N1bn bail sum to N500m, reduces sureties to one senator

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, reduced the bail conditions it earlier imposed on a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulr...

Jan 28, 2020

Offa bank robbery: Absence of witnesses stalls trial

The absence of prosecution witnesses in court on Tuesday stalled the continuation of hearing in the April 5, 2018, Offa bank robbery trial of five suspects alle...

Jan 28, 2020

$500,000 bribery case: My witness' brother killed by Lassa fever, Farouk Lawan tells court

Ex-Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on an investigation into fuel subsidy regime in 2012, Farouk Lawan, told the High Court of the Fede...