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The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola over the weekend said he was misquoted on the claim that federal roads were not as deplorable as the public portrayed them. He maintained that he did not use the word ‘exaggeration’. The minister made the clarification in Ilara- Mokin,Ifedore local government area of Ondo state while […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has celebrated his influential nephew, Mamman Daura, as he clocked 80 on Saturday. Mr Daura, the son of the president’s late sister, is known to be one of the closest individuals to Mr Buhari, having a relationship dating to their childhood days, according to both families. He has been long rumoured as […]

The Finance Act (amendment) Bill seeking  incremental changes to Nigeria’s tax and fiscal law, which passed second reading on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, may not be plain  sailing  to become a law as some senators have vowed to shoot down the bill. Specifically, they  said  they would mobilise stakeholders to reject the […]

Detained political activist and publisher of Sahara Reporter online news platform, Omoyele Sowore, has embarked on a hunger strike over the refusal of the DSS to set him free after meeting his bail conditions. In a text message to Premium Times on Friday, his lawyer, Femi Falana, said Mr Sowore has refused to eat or […]

A woman accused of sneaking into the lion and giraffe exhibits at the Bronx Zoo in late September has been arrested, the New York Police Department announced. Myah Autry, 30, who’d previously been identified by the NYPD as the woman who went into the enclosures, was arrested Wednesday night and charged with two counts of criminal trespass, […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has promised to protect the investments made by Nigerians in Diaspora in the country. Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of EFCC, stated this at the 2019 Nigeria Diaspora Investment Summit with the theme “Leveraging Diaspora Resources for Economic Growth“ on Wednesday in Abuja. Magu said that the EFCC mandate was […]

A former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, Mr Bayo Onanuga, has advised that President Muhammadu Buhari should order all his ministers to stop travelling by air within the country. He said Buhari should order the ministers to instead travel by road for one year. This way, Onanuga said, the President and his […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria has given a directive to banks and other finance institutions to stop the sale of treasury bills to individuals and small firms with effect from November 29. Some bank officials who disclosed this to Punch said only big corporate organisations would be allowed to do treasury bills investments. Punch correspondents […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the dismissal of some of his aides who were attached to the Office of the Vice-President, according to Punch.  Daily Nigerian had reported on Wednesday that about 35 of the aides were sacked. However, Punch could not independently confirm the exact number as of the time of filing the report. […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has claimed that the former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, is not a responsible citizen but a fugitive of law. The agency said he allegedly stole about N3billion pensioners’ fund in what it described as an elaborate grand scam. The commission said the ex-pension chief […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has temporarily relocated the Presidency to the United Kingdom where he signed the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract (PSC) Amendment Bill into law Monday. Buhari, who left Saudi Arabia on Saturday where he spent five days on an official trip, moved to the UK for a private visit which […]

A 48-year-old woman, accused of causing four deaths after faking her medical qualifications, has been arrested in Germany. The woman also allegedly caused eight long-term injuries while working as an assistant doctor at a hospital in Fritzlar in Schwalm-Eder district in the center of the country, according to a statement from state prosecutors published October 31. Prosecutors […]

Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, says it is impossible to put an end to kidnapping in the country because it has become a business. Wike said this on Monday when received a delegation of Rotary International District 9141 in his office in Port Harcourt. The governor said the menace is “negatively affecting all states […]

Nuhu Ribadu, pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says no one has become an oil billionaire since President Muhammadu Buhari became minister of petroleum. Timipre Sylva is the junior minister of petroleum resources while the president is the senior minister — a first in the country. Ribadu said this while making […]

Wife of late Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu has expressed reservation over absence of Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra at the second memorial lecture of her husband. Mrs Ojukwu spoke during the lecture at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU) Igbariam, Anambra State on Monday. Obiano was represented at the event by his deputy, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of the closure of Nigeria’s border with neighbouring countries to January 31, next year. The exercise code-named operation Exercise Swift Response had resulted in joint border operations by a combined team of security agencies. The Deputy Comptroller of Customs in charge of Enforcement, Investigation and Inspectorate, Victor Dimka, […]