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The Nigeria Immigration Service has introduced an online-based application for visitors to the country seeking visa on arrival. An NIS source on Tuesday said the new process was introduced to eliminate hitches associated with the manual process for potential investors, tourists and others seeking to come into the country. The source added that the new […]

Detectives on Tuesday grilled the founder and Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo, for over eight hours in connection with the rape allegations levelled against him by a photographer, Busola Dakolo. The cleric had allegedly raped Dakolo when she was a teenager at her parents’ residence in Ilorin, Kwara State. Fatoyinbo […]

The Lagos State House Assembly on Tuesday set up a committee to investigate the purchase of 820 buses by the administration of former governor Akinwunmi Ambode in the state. The House said it was important to investigate the purchase of the 820 buses out of the 5,000 buses proposed by Mr Ambode for mass transit […]

The United States Embassy in Nigeria says effective from Thursday, August 29, 2019, Nigerians applying for tourism, student and business visas will not only pay the N59, 200 fee but will have to pay an extra $110 (N40, 700) after the visa has been issued to them bringing the total cost to N99, 900. However, […]

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) says it will begin to impose value-added tax (VAT) on online transactions, both domestic and international, with effective from January 2020. Babatunde Fowler, FIRS executive chairman, made this known on Monday at the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) technical workshop that held in Abuja. Fowler said a lot of […]

There is no respite for the 63 Nigerians on the United States (U.S.) watch list. Seventy seven Nigerians were among 80 suspects named by the U.S. Attorney for Central District of California Mr Nick Hanna on August 22 for conniving with others to dupe unsuspecting victims. The Federal Government on Monday pledged to support the […]

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the February 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday raised the alarm that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government was desperately plotting to frame former President Olusegun Obasanjo to stop him from criticising Buhari’s administration. Atiku, in a statement by his media office, also alleged that the Economic and […]

Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr says he feels loved by Nigerians, a major reason he’s attached to the country and the national team. But the German, who holds a French passport, admits that there’s a section of Nigerians from whom he “doesn’t feel this love.” The German led the Eagles to a third-place finish at last […]

The police in Enugu confirmed yesterday said a schoolgirl reported by her father as kidnapped in Enugu on Thursday has been found with her boyfriend in Owerri, Imo State. According to police spokesperson, Ebere Amaraizu, Kosisochukwu Anioma, 14, said she faked her kidnap so she could travel to meet her school boyfriend. Miss Kosisochukwu, who is […]

Violent crimes continued to make the headlines in Nigeria last week with at least 14 persons killed and no fewer than eight others kidnapped in the reported cases. The cases in this report were confirmed by security agencies, government officials or victims’ relations. Top of the news was the incident on Thursday when Boko Haram […]

Adebayo Shittu, the immediate-past Minister of Communication, said that he was shocked when his name was not included in President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list. Mr Shittu, who made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said although he did not expect that he would not be reappointed, as […]

The Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan; the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, and several other lawmakers risk losing their seats following a recent ruling by an Ondo State Election Petitions Tribunal, Sunday Punch has learnt. The tribunal on July 31, 2019, sacked Mr Ikengboju Gboluga, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party representing […]

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, has ordered IPOB members to attack Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari in Japan. President Buhari will be travelling to Japan on Sunday to attend Tokyo International Conference on African Development, in the City of Yokohama from August 28 to 30. Daring Buhari on Friday, Kanu […]

Galactica Star, a super yacht belonging to oil magnate, Kola Aluko, fingered in multi-billion dollar petrol import and crude export deals has been sold. The yacht, valued at $50 million, was sold after the Nigerian government and U.S. Department of Justice secured a court order to forfeit the property. Mrs Alison-Madueke, Mr Aluko and another […]

Nigerian soldiers manning a checkpoint in Adamawa State have intercepted six mine resistance vehicles that seemed to have been transported into Nigeria without due process. The military personnel, attached to the Nigerian Army 23 Armoured Brigade in Yola, seized the equipment in Fufore Local Government Area this week. The Nigerian Army could not immediately verify […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Sunday for Japan to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) holding in the City of Yokohama from Aug. 28 to Aug. 30. A statement by Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Friday, said […]

The governors of the south-eastern states are currently reluctant to travel abroad following the threat by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra to attack them and other Igbo politicians whenever they are sighted outside the country, Punch findings have revealed. Findings have also shown that the South-East governors are very unlikely to make any trip […]

Senator Dino Melaye has been sacked as the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District. The National Assembly/State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Lokoja, Kogi State handed down the sack yesterday and ordered a fresh election. Melaye was dragged to the tribunal by the All Progressives Congress candidate, Senator Smart Adeyemi. In the now annulled election, […]