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Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has accused the UK authorities of being too slow with the prosecution of Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum. Speaking on Wednesday while receiving a team of International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, Magu said the case has […]

The Nigerian government has introduced a new Federal Marriage Certificate for all types of marriages in the country. The permanent secretary of the Ministry of Interior, Georgina Ehuriah, disclosed this on Wednesday at a stakeholders conference on the conduct of statutory marriage in Abuja. She said existing couples who do not have their certificate issued […]

Tanko Muhammad, the new head of Nigeria’s judiciary, has said that vicious termites destroyed his primary school certificate. Mr Muhammad said the termites invaded his home in Bauchi State in 1998 and devoured all documents inside beyond recovery. “No portion of the certificate was salvaged,” Mr Muhammad said. The claim was contained in an affidavit […]

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, says the statement by the United States that it was placing visa restriction on some Nigerians has vindicated his claim that the elections were rigged. Premium Times on Wednesday reported that U.S. State Department, through its spokesperson, Morgan Ortagus, said […]

The EFCC on Wednesday said its Enugu Zonal Office has marked some properties traced to the former Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha, and some of his family members. The EFCC noted that Mr Okorocha’s properties were marked not sealed. However, the ex-governor’s spokesperson, Sam Onwuemodo, in a telephone interview, told Premium Times that the EFCC sealed […]

The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had imposed visa restrictions on Nigerians it said were involved in trying to undermine democracy in presidential and parliamentary elections this year. However, the department did not name the individuals or say how many were affected by the visa restrictions. President Muhammadu Buhari won a second term […]

President Buhari sent a ministerial list of names to the Senate on Tuesday. The following are seven principal facts about the President’s list of suggested names for ministerial appointments. 1. There are 43 nominees in all, comprising seven women and 36 men. 2. Seven states comprising Edo, Anambra, Bauchi, Kaduna, Kano, Lagos, and Kwara have […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday announced names of 12 former ministers who worked with him in his first term for reappointment. They are Babatunde Fashola (Lagos State), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers State) Hadi Sirika (Katsina State), Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna State), Lai Mohammed (Kwara State) Chris Ngige (Anambra State),  Adamu Adamu (Bauchi State), Abubakar Malami (Jigawa State),  Godfrey […]

Human right lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, has denied reports that his chambers has taken up the Dakolo’s rape case against Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA). There were reports that Falana had taken over the brief as their legal counsel. But Falana explained that he only prevailed […]

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has certified Dolutegravir (DTG) as a safe and preferred first-line and second-line treatment drug for HIV/AIDS, adding that pregnant women can also use it. In a statement posted on its official website on Monday, it said initial studies had flagged DTG as having a possible link with neural tube defects […]

The Channels Television reporter shot at the scene of the clash between members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), better known as Shiites, and the police is dead. His death was announced during the 10pm news bulletin of the station. He was identified as Precious Owolabi, a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Security operatives […]

Donna, the beautiful daughter of ex-presidential candidate, Donald Duke, graduated from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom yesterday, July 22nd. Duke and his wife attended the graduation ceremony.

As Nigerians mourn Obianuju Ndubuisi-Chukwu, a Nigerian insurance chief who was murdered in South Africa, the country again is grappling with the ruthless assassination of a teenager in that country. The latest killing brings to about 200, Nigerians killed in xenophobic attacks between 2016 and this year. South Africa is home to about 800,000 Nigerians, […]