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Obinwanne Okeke has been ordered to restitute about $10.7million which he fraudulently obtained from identified victims of his at least five years of wire fraud in the U.S and other places, Premium Times reports. A judge of the Eastern District of Virginia, Rebecca Smith, while sentencing him to 10 years in jail on February 16, also […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria is witnessing a rise in threats posed by cybercriminals, online financial fraudsters and cyber terrorists who use the internet to cause apprehension. He said this during the launch of the National Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy 2021 at the Council Chamber of the State House, Abuja. He called for an overhaul […]

President Muhammadu Buhari received Hope Uzodinma, Imo state governor, in Aso Rock, Abuja, on  Tuesday. Buhari held a closed-door meeting with Uzodinma alongside Ibrahim Gambari, chief of staff to the president. The sit-down is coming amid a heated feud between the Imo governor and his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha. The latter was arrested by the Imo police on […]

Chairman National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Buba Marwa, said no fewer than 15 million Nigerians are using illicit drugs. Marwa disclosed this on Monday in Port Harcourt during his first familiarisation tour to sister security agencies and stakeholders in Rivers state. According to him, the country is getting destroyed with the drug scourge. He […]

Hundreds of members of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos on Friday crowded into a street in Agege for a sensitisation rally, in clear violation of the state’s COVID-19 law. In a video obtained by Premium Times, top party members of the party, including Mudashiru Obasa, the speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, were in […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Monday said a new variant of COVID-19 had been detected in Nigeria and 15 other countries. The new strain, B.1.2.5 which is different from the highly infectious B.1.1.7 has, however, not been described as a variant of concern. Disclosing this at the press briefing of the Presidential Task […]

Former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has been arrested by the operatives of the State Police Command. Okorocha was arrested on Sunday after unsealing Royal Spring Palm Estate reportedly linked to his wife, Nkechi. He was said to have gone to the estate with his supporters, policemen, soldiers and personnel of National Security and Civil […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday regretted that Nigerians had shed enough blood over issues that could have been peacefully resolved. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President spoke while reacting to the violence in Gombe State arising from the Billiri chieftaincy tussle. The statement was […]

Former Minister of Education, Public Analyst/Senior Economic Advisor, Oby Ezekwesili has condemned the high rate of insecurity in the country while accusing the Buhari-led administration of bandits a thriving environment. Ezekwesili said this while condemning the abduction of 27 Kagara students from Niger State, adding that a strange incestuous relationship now exists between the government […]

Nigeria has never aspired to make the Republic of Benin or any other country a part of its territory, the spokesman of the nation’s foreign ministry, Ferdinand Nwonye, said Saturday. Reactions have trailed the statement earlier made by Nigeria’s foreign minister, Godfrey Onyeama, who suggested that Benin wanted to become Nigeria’s 37th state after a meeting […]

The Imo State Government has defended the ongoing joint military and police operation in Orlu Local Government Area of the state, aimed at clearing camps allegedly built by members of the IPOB’s Eastern Security Network. Briefing journalists on Friday in Owerri, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Cyprian Akaolisa, said the state government invited […]

Nigeria’s economy exited recession in the fourth quarter of 2020, recording its first growth in three quarters as coronavirus-linked lockdown was lifted across the country, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a report Thursday. The report said Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 0.11 per cent in the three months between October and December from a year […]

Tension has enveloped communities in the Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State following the decision of soldiers to indiscriminately fire gunshots ostensibly to stop alleged planned attacks by men of the Eastern Security Network in the area. Members of the ESN, being sponsored by the Indigenous People of Biafra, were said to have regrouped […]

The long absence of the wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, from the Presidential Villa, Abuja, and the country became more pronounced on Wednesday, when she attained the age of 50. Outspoken Mrs Buhari had gone off the radar around September 2020 shortly after the wedding of her daughter, Hanan. An online newspaper, SaharaReporters, had reported […]

The Senate on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency on insecurity in the country. The resolution follows a motion by Senator Sani Musa on the abduction of students from the Government Science College Kagara Niger state. Senator Bima Enagi from Niger State in his contribution, accused the President of incompetence […]

The General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, says he bought his third jet during the raging COVID-19 pandemic, which pushed the country into economic recession. Suleman said this in a recent sermon. Although the date of the sermon could not be verified, the video has gone viral on social media. […]