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A 56-year-old man, Clinton Kanu, has said he will demand a N20bn compensation for spending 27 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Kanu, who was sentenced to death in 1992 for murder, was freed by the Supreme Court on April 5, 2019. The Okigwe, Imo State-born consultant criminologist explained that though […]

The Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday alleged that N14tn had been stolen under the All Progressives Congress-led Presidency. It said the party and President Muhammadu Buhari were desperate to remain in power in order to prevent investigations into the matter. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, made the allegations in a statement made […]

About two weeks after police officers arrested 30 women at different night clubs in Abuja, another 70 women have been arrested. The latest arrests were done on Saturday night and the victims were taken to and detained at a police station, a witness said. Martin Obono, a lawyer and activist, said he witnessed when the […]

Nigeria’s electricity generation dropped further last Tuesday by 312 megawatts (MW) after the Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) reported a cut in gas supply to four key power plants in the country. The gas supply company said the cut followed the emergency maintenance works it was carrying out on the pipeline supplying gas to Egbin, Omotosho, […]

Security operatives in the United States of America have arrested nine Nigerians for allegedly defrauding individuals and businesses of more than $3.5 million. This was disclosed in a statement published on the website of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, and Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) Special Agent-in-Charge of the Tampa, […]

The Nigerians Citizens Association in South Africa (NICASA) says another Nigerian, Tony Elochukwu, from Nnobi Anambra State has been killed by an unidentified gunman in South Africa. The president of NICASA, Ben Okoli, said this in a letter sent to the Consular General, Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg. Three Nigerians were killed between April 6 and […]

A 69-year-old Sunday school teacher and nurse from Arkansas, United States, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for killing her husband after discovering he had reordered a pornography channel. Patricia Hill ‘flew into a rage’ and killed her husband after seeing that a pornography channel had been added to their satellite television subscription. Frank […]

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has denounced a newspaper report that 70 per cent of medicines in Nigeria are fake. A press statement by Moji Adeyeye, a professor and Director General of the agency on Friday, said that the report was published by Vanguard Newspaper. Ms Adeyeye said that […]

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Fire Service has warned residents to desist from storing fuel in vehicles. Mr Timveh Jerry, agency’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) gave the warning in an interview with newsmen on Friday in Abuja. He said that it had been observed that people were in the habit of buying and storing fuel […]

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, says Nigerians have the right to believe that President Muhammadu Buhari’s trip to the United Kingdom is to seek medical attention. He stated this on Thursday while featuring on Politics Today which aired on Channels Television. “Those who want to interpret everything, those who […]

Chris Ngige, minister of labour, says being a medical doctor since 1979 puts him in a position to know the situation of things in the health sector. In a statement issued by Nwachukwu Obidiwe, his spokesman, Ngige said the truth hurts but it must be told. He also denied making the statement on medical doctors […]

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that there is no plan to dissolve the federal cabinet. President Muhammadu Buhari had last week asked ministers to submit a comprehensive “status reports on policies, programmes and projects” from their respective ministries, departments and agencies. He asked them to make the submissions to the office of […]

The Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, says the police are in the process of acquiring and deploying less lethal weaponry during operations. Mr Adamu made this known on Thursday in Osogbo, the state capital, at the inauguration of a Zonal Security Stakeholders’ Forum, a community policing concept for the Police Zone XI comprising […]

Two Chinese nationals, Sun Zhixin and Wang Quing Hu, have been kidnapped in Ebonyi State, South-east Nigeria. The two men are workers of Tongyi construction company. They were working on a road project in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State when they were forcefully whisked away by armed gunmen. They were taken off the […]

National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has dismissed as fake news reports making the rounds on social media that serving corps members will be paid N31,800 as monthly stipends following the signing of the new minimum wage into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. A Deputy Director at the NYSC headquarters Abuja, Eddy Megwa told Vanguard on […]

The Nigerian Government has solicited the cooperation of Russia to eliminate the Boko Haram insurgents from Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin countries. The Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali made the appeal on Wednesday at the 8th Moscow “Conference on International Security.’’ Dan-Ali also sought Russia’s cooperation in securing the maritime domain of the Gulf of […]

A branch manager with a popular retail store, Addide, Samson Oluwaseyi, has been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly forging a discharge certificate of the National Youth Service Corps and a statement of result of the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa. The 36-year-old Gbongan, Osun State indigene, was alleged to have defrauded Addide of N7.79m […]

Despite official data showing that Nigeria ‘gravely’ lacks an adequate number of doctors, a minister has claimed otherwise. The World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics, as of 2013, showed there were about four doctors for every 10,000 Nigerians (one for 2,500), far below the organisation’s recommendation of one doctor to 600 patients. Also, according to official […]