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A female banker Gladys Udia, has been docked in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, charged with seven-counts of conspiracy, stealing, forgery and alteration to the tune of N3,476,700. Udia was arraigned today by the EFCC before Justice M. L Abubakar of the Federal High Court. Udia’s trouble started when a petitioner, Benjamin Akerele, a customer of […]

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, says he and his wife are lucky to have Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, as a friend and partner in battling development issues in Africa. In a note via his blog, Gates said Dangote Foundation is the largest organization in sub-Saharan Africa tackling health and education. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said efforts to repatriate another tranche of $300 million in Abacha loot had reached an advanced stage with the United States government. The president said a memorandum of understanding would be ratified by both countries to return the trapped fund back to Nigeria. The $300 million was traced to bank […]

Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, says there are more poor people in Nigeria than in India and China. Obi said this at The Platform, an annual conference organised by Covenant Christian Centre in Lagos. Citing the “Stress Index”, Obi said Nigeria is the most stressful country in the world. “Today, we are the most stressful […]

A former military ruler, Abdulsalami Abubakar, has suggested that ex-president Goodluck Jonathan has not been given enough credit for conceding defeat after the 2015 presidential election. Mr Jonathan in 2015 became Nigeria’s first incumbent president to lose re-election. He promptly accepted defeat to incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari and congratulated him. Mr Abubakar’s stance is contained […]

The Nigerian Government is planning to borrow fresh N4.6tn within the next three years, covering 2020 to 2022, to finance its programmes, figures obtained from the Ministry of Budget and National Planning have revealed. If the N4.6tn new borrowings scale through legislative scrutiny and get executed, then Nigeria’s indebtedness to local and foreign creditors would […]

Parents and Christian groups in Ghana have pushed back against a planned introduction of Comprehensive Sexuality Education to primary school children aged four. Education officials in Ghana say the UNESCO programme will empower children with information on their sexuality and reproductive health issues, according to BBC Africa report. Director of the Ghana Education Service says CSE will […]

A high court in Zamfara State (Nigeria) has sentenced a father and his son to death by hanging for committing culpable homicide in the state. Culpable homicide is an act which has resulted in a person’s death but is held not to amount to murder. The convicted father Hamida Ibrahim and his son and Ashiru […]

The presiding Pastor of Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, on Sunday clarified that there was never a time he commented about recent developments relating to the office of the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, contrary to insinuations in a recent trending video. Bakare said the trending video about the 16th presidency suggesting that he would be the […]

Aisha, wife of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has been out of the spotlight for weeks, conspicuously absent in several events she ought to have attended, making tongues wag about her whereabouts. There are some speculations that she is in London. Aso Rock has not confirmed this. But she was known to have jetted out of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he decided not to hand over power to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo when he travelled to the United Kingdom on a private visit from April 25 to May 5, 2019 because there was no constitutional requirement for him to do so. The President further stated that the only time […]

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised Nigerians who were evacuated from South Africa to be ready to go back to the country if a bilateral commission meeting scheduled between President Muhammadu Buhari and South African  President, Cyril  Ramaphosa yielded a positive outcome. The former President also enjoined the leadership of South Africa and Nigeria to […]

Tacha of Big Brother Naija was disqualified on Friday night following physical violence she indulged into with a fellow housemate, Mercy on Friday morning, 27 September. According to Pulse.ng the spunky 23-year-old Rivers State native lives her life like her favourite musician Cardi B does; “Do no harm but take no mess”. Talented at making […]

A magistrates’ court sitting in Ogba, Lagos State, on Friday sentenced six sex workers into three months’ imprisonment for prostitution. The women, Joy Emmanuel, Tonia Ogini, Sandra Abraham, Joy Joe, Athani Therish and Nwachukwu Vera, were charged with exposing themselves to “public prostitution and conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace.” They were […]

National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Rev Supo Ayokunle on Friday declared Vice President Yemi Osinbajo innocent of the alleged N90 billion allegation against him. He spoke during a visit to the Vice President in Abuja. Ayokunle, who spoke with reporters at the Christian Ecumenical Centre, where he is meeting with top […]

A businessman, Onyekachi Nwosu, has died while having sex with his lover, identified simply as Chima, in the Aguda area of Surulere, Lagos State. Punch gathered that Nwosu and Chima visited the Alfredo Suites around 10pm for a short-time rest, but the 36-year-old man suddenly started gasping for air. Chima, who was jolted by her lover’s […]