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Jan 23, 2020

Call for gender equality, threat to marriages – Lawyer

An Ilorin based legal practitioner, Mr Johnson Ekundayo has said campaign for gender equality would become a threat to marriage in Nigeria if not properly handl...

Jan 23, 2020

ITF set to graduate 11,000 youths -DG

The Director-General of the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Mr Joseph Ari, says the Fund is set to graduate 11,000 youths that it has trained under one of its...

Jan 23, 2020

FG faults Nigeria’s rating as most corrupt country in West Africa

The Federal Government has berated Transparency International for naming Nigeria as the most corrupt country in West Africa. The Attorney-General of the Fede...

Jan 23, 2020

Court stops INEC, Senate from enforcing judgment sacking Ubah as senator

The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission and others from giving effect to the April 11, 2019 judgment...

Jan 23, 2020

BREAKING: Dasuki makes first court appearance after release from detention

The immediate-past former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, on Thursday, made his first court appearance after his release from four-year-long detention....

Jan 23, 2020

Osinbajo presides as Uzodinma, Tambuwal, Ortom, others arrive for NEC meeting

An expanded meeting of the National Economic Council has opened in Abuja. It is presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. It is the first NEC meeting...

Jan 23, 2020

Defence counsel’s absence stalls Fani-Kayode’s N4.9bn fraud case

The N4.9bn fraud trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, scheduled to continue on Thursday before the Federal High Court in Lagos was stalled...

Jan 23, 2020

Two robbers burnt to ashes after robbing pregnant woman

There was pandemonium in Uyo Akwa Ibom state capital Wednesday as residents of Abak Road, Uyo, by the flyover caught two armed robbers that robbed a pregnant wo...

Jan 23, 2020

Police arrest 1,527 kidnap suspects, recover 2,037 firearms in 2019 – I-G

Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has said that the force had arrested 1, 527 kidnap suspects and recovered 2,037 firearms across the country in 2019....

Jan 23, 2020

Court orders interim forfeiture of $376,120 traced to Army Chief, Otiki

The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Wednesday, ordered the interim forfeiture of the sum of $376, 120 allegedly seized from Major General Hakeem Ot...

Jan 22, 2020

BREAKING: Death toll from coronavirus rises to 17 in China

The death toll from a new SARS-like China virus that has infected hundreds rose to 17, authorities said on Wednesday. Officials in Hubei, the central Chinese...

Jan 22, 2020

Breaking: Arraignment of Adoke stalled

The arraignment of former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke was on Wednesday stalled in an FCT High Court in Gwagwalada over confusion fr...

Jan 22, 2020

[BREAKING] Malabu oil deal: Adoke arrives court for trial

The immediate past Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, has arrived the Gwagwalada Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territor...

Jan 22, 2020

Greece elects first woman president

Greece’s parliament on Wednesday elected the first woman president in the country’s history, a senior judge with expertise in environmental and constitutional l...

Jan 22, 2020

BREAKING: Lassa Fever Kills Pregnant Woman, Two Doctors In Kano

The Kano State government has confirmed the outbreak of Lassa fever in the state with three victims killed. The State Commissioner for Health, Aminu Tsanyaw...

Jan 22, 2020

BREAKING: Tinubu breaks silence, says Amotekun not threat to national unity

National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has debunked claims that a security outfit launched by South-West governors, Amotekun, is a...

Jan 22, 2020

US to place visa restriction on Nigeria, others

United States President, Donald Trump, is set to add Nigeria and six others to a new list of countries on America’s visa restriction, Wall Street Journal report...

Jan 22, 2020

I killed Chief Odunukwe to take over his N900m property ― Suspect

Emotion ran high at Ogombo forest, Ajah, Lagos, where the decomposing body of popular Abuja businessman, Chief Hyginus Odunukwe, was recovered, following a star...

Jan 22, 2020

BREAKING: Kano PDP chairman dumps party for APC

Rabiu Sulaiman Bichi, the caretaker committee Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano state has dumped the party and joined the ruling All Progr...

Jan 22, 2020

Coronavirus hits United States

The new coronavirus, which originated in China recently, has found its way to the shores of the United States, according to authorities. The U.S. Centers for...