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Two persons were killed when aggrieved members of a cult in Umutogume, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, invaded the village to avenge their colleague, who died during a festival at the weekend. Among the victims were an octogenarian, Priscilla...

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC ) in Borno said it had arrested a 27 year-old spinster, Zainab Abdullahi, over alleged theft of N12, 000 at a wedding ceremony in Maiduguri. Abdullahi said that the suspect was usually dressing in...

The Federal Government approved N280.1m cash payments to former Presidents and Heads of State in 2017 to buy cars. Out of the money, N40m had already been released, but final releases would tally at “100 per cent.” There is an outstanding balance of N240.1m...

Below are the list of the dreaded felons, cultists and criminals on the heads of whom Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has put a record bounty of N640 million, far more than the N200m he offered for the Omoku killer, Don Wani. The men according to their...

The two best players in Africa will engage each other at the 2018 ITTF Africa Top 16 Cup as Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri and Egypt’s Omar Assar will be aiming for the ITTF World Cup slot in astern African nation of Kenya. As the defending champion, Aruna Quadri...

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted hazy conditions over the central States of the county on Wednesday. NiMet’s Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Tuesday also predicted day and night temperatures in the range...

Nigeria has authorised Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to start the repayment of 76 million dollars polio eradication facility to Japan. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday when she received a delegation of...

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Tuesday disclosed that he washed dead bodies as a youth to pay his tuition fees while schooling abroad. Ajimobi said this at a South-West Youths Regional Summit in Osogbo. While urging the youth to have a positive...

It has been said for an umpteenth time that Local Government effectiveness and efficiency cannot be restored until the third tier of government is purely democratically autonomous against the interference of other tiers, particularly state government....

The National Examination Council has announced the release of the 2017 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination results. The Registrar of the Council, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, announced the results on Tuesday at its headquarters in Minna....

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OPEN grazing of cattle was banned yesterday by the Federal Government – to stem the growing anger sparked by the killings in Benue and other states. All herdsmen must henceforth ranch their cattle. The decision was taken at the end of a six-hour meeting...

Foreign reserves have hit a three-year high at $40.4 billion, data from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) have shown. The figure indicated an increase of about $1 billion between December 2017 and January 2018. The CBN said the new reserves level was...

North Korea is to send a delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games taking place in South Korea in February, officials from the South said. The breakthrough announcement came as the countries met for their first high-level talks in more than two years,...

The Katsina State Police Command says it recorded 210 cases of rape and unnatural acts in the state in 2017. The command’s spokesman, DSP Isa Gambo, said on Tuesday in Katsina that 275 persons allegedly involved in the various rape cases were arrested...

Lawyers for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanayhu, tried to stop the broadcast of an embarrassing audiotape in which Netanyahu’s son Yair suggested his father helped push through a $20bn deal to the benefit of a gas tycoon. The recording of the...

A pan Nigerian pressure group, National Vanguard for Good Governance in Nigeria has joined Father Ejike Mbaka in calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to shelve his ambition of running for second term. Father Mbaka in his new year message yesterday had...

The former presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati (SAN) recalls his warning to Nigerians to avoid President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) and they remained adamant. In his latest article ‘Buhari: Between yesterday and tomorrow’, Abati said...

The Bayelsa State Governor, Henry Seriake Dickson, on Monday in Yenagoa urged security agencies to treat political leaders who sponsor criminals as criminals themselves. According to Dickson, such political leaders should be arrested and prosecuted like...

Estimated revenue of N112.09 billion is to be generated by Ministries, Departments and Agencies as well as the Board of Internal Revenue (IGR) in Oyo state in 2018. The breakdown of the 2018 appropriation proposal of N267.4billion, made available to Nigerian...

Nigeria's electoral commission, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the 2019 general elections timetable and schedule of activities today, 9th January 2018. According to the timetable, the Presidential and National Assembly primaries...

Only in a state of nature that a festive period is greeted with unimaginable catastrophe. The first day in the fledgling year 2018 will remain an unforgettable disastrous day for the family and friends of the victims of the monstrous cultists in Rivers,...

The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ( JAMB ), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, on Monday, has released that the examination body will remit less than N7.8billion it remitted to Federal Government coffers in 2017 this year. He noted although...

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Monday declared three days of mourning for those killed in recent attacks on communities in Logo and Guma local government areas of the state. The mourning period will be from Tuesday to Thursday this week and ends...

Workers refused to resume on Monday despite the announcement of resumption by the management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan. The strikings workers on Monday insisted that the gates of the institution remain closed until the demands of the workers are met...