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The National Judicial Council (NJC) has approved the request of President Muhammadu Buhari to extend the appointment of Ibrhaim Muhammad, acting chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), by three months. Soji Oye, NJC spokesman, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. The spokesman was reacting to a report that council will meet to deliberate on extension […]

Police officer cum music artiste, Abayomi Ekundayo, aka Yomi SARS, has said that there was no time he joined the campaign to end the Special Anti-Robbery Squad. Recall that a video surfaced online where he was caught on camera, calling for an end to SARS. Yomi told Sunday Scoop that as a policeman, he couldn’t […]

Snakes have been found in Liberian President George Weah’s office, forcing him to work from his private residence. Press secretary Smith Toby told the BBC that two black snakes were found in the foreign affairs ministry building, his official place of work. All staff have been told to stay away until 22 April. “It’s just […]

A 42-year-old woman has given birth to five babies (quintuplets) at Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Lokoja, Kogi, after 18 years of barrenness. A correspondent of NAN who visited the woman and her babies at the hospital on Friday reports that both mother, Mrs Uchenna Okeigbo and her kids are in good condition. Okeigbo, an indigene […]

The Criminal Court of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced eight Nigerians to death for carrying out what it termed as “a string of armed robberies” at money exchanges and cash machines across the emirate in December 2016. Khaleej Times, a UAE medium, reported on Thursday that the ninth suspect was however sentenced to […]

With few weeks to the end of his first term in office, President Muhammadu Buhari has spent a total of 404 days (a year and 39 days) travelling to 33 countries on four continents in about four years of his first term in office. The country he visited the most was the United Kingdom where […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says some developed countries are reluctant to assist Nigeria because they have “wrong assumptions” that the nation is rich. According to a statement by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, Buhari said this on Thursday while receiving letters of credence from the newly appointed diplomats of Kuwait, India and Namibia in Abuja. The president […]

Nigeria could be spending as much as N1.86 billion on subsidy daily going by the current landing cost of petrol which is N180 per litre, TheCable Petrobarometer can report. Speaking on NTA’s Good Morning Nigeria show, Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of state for petroleum resources, said the landing cost of petrol is now N180 per […]

The Federal High Court has declared the Ebonyi South Senatorial District seat being occupied by Sonni Ogbuoji vacant and ordered him to vacate the seat immediately. The judgment was delivered on Tuesday by Justice Akintola Aluko of the Abakaliki Division of the court. It held that Mr Ogbuoji flouted section 68(1)g of the 1999 Constitution […]

The implementation of the N30, 000 minimum wage just signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari takes effect from April 18, a presidential aide, Ita Enang, has announced. Mr Enang, who is Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, told State House correspondents on Thursday in Abuja that the Minimum Wage Repel […]

A Russian Orthodox priest has been removed from his post and sent to work in a remote village after his wife took part in a beauty contest, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported. The secretary of the Magnitogorsk episcopate told RIA Novosti that the priest’s wife, Oksana Zotova, performed a Brazilian dance in carnival […]

Former Peruvian president Alan Garcia died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head as police were preparing to arrest him on Wednesday morning. His death was confirmed by current President Martin Vizcarra, who expressed his condolences over Twitter. Garcia, who served as president from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011, was under […]

As many as 150 people are missing after a passenger boat sank on Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, President Felix Tshisekedi said. The disaster happened Monday evening, but details of the incident were only just emerging Wednesday. President Tshisekedi said he was “very saddened” by the news and extended his condolences to […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of not possessing the statutory educational qualification to contest the February 23, 2019 election. In his counter-accusation, Buhari dared Atiku to produce his “educational certificates, indicating the schools attended by him, with dates,” before the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. […]

Nigerian senators on Wednesday rejected a bill aiming to phase out petrol vehicles and introduce electric cars in the country in 2035. The bill, first read on April 10, was not considered for a second reading by the lawmakers. In his lead debate, sponsor of the bill, Ben Murray-Bruce, said the move would serve two […]

After 11 years of personal and professional setbacks, one of which was a highly-publicised divorce and multiple surgeries, American golfer Tiger Woods on Sunday made a one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, winning the 2019 Golf Masters for the fifth time. This victory impressed President Donald Trump of the United States of America, […]

The Nigeria Customs Service will from Wednesday begin the process of recruiting about 3,200 personnel to fill existing vacancies within the agency The move is part of ongoing reforms being implemented in the last four years under the leadership of the Comptroller-General of Customs, Col Hameed Ali (rtd) Speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday […]

For the very first time in Nigeria’s 59-year history, the signature of a woman, Priscilla Ekwere Eleje, goes on the naira. Eleje, who has been acting director of currency and operations at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has been confirmed, substantive director of the apex bank. She is the first female director of currency […]