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The Nigeria Immigration Service in Niger says it has repatriated 18 immigrants to the Republic of Niger. The Comptroller of Immigration Service in the state, Mrs Tamuno Oyedeji, said in Minna on Saturday that the service and Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development provided vehicles for the transportation of the illegal immigrants to […]

Former Chief of Army Staff during the Second Republic, Lt. Gen.  Alani Akinrinade (retd), has criticised members of the the National Assembly, saying they are a “bunch of clowns.” According to the 77-year-old, the federal lawmakers “are the most dishonourable people I knew in the world”. Gen. Akinrinade, who was also the Chief of Defence Staff […]

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe says his country is the “most highly developed country in Africa” after South Africa, putting the country ahead of  Nigeria and Egypt. Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Durban, South Africa, Mugabe said “After South Africa, I want to see what country has the level of development […]

Manchester United boss, Jose Mourinho has enforced a social media ban on his players in order to limit the extent of information going out of the first-team squad. Various United players have hit the headlines for posts made on their various social media accounts this season. And the Portuguese has grown increasingly frustrated with the […]

A shocking video footage has emerged showing Zimbabwean police rough-handling two naked women. The women were seen stripped and dragged to an open van with their children by some Police officers. The children were heard crying while their mothers carried to the vehicle. The video was shared on Twitter by a Zimbabwean journalist identified simply […]

The Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani has advocated N145,000 as minimum wage for Nigerian civil servants. He described the current N18,000 minimum wage as ‘a big insult’ to Nigerian workers, adding that the amount was not even enough to feed a politician’s dog in a month. Sani said this on Monday when he entered […]

The police in Lagos have commenced an investigation into a case involving one Oladele, 45, a prophet at a church in Oke Ira, in the Ogba area of the state. The police at the Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, said the prophet was being held for allegedly defrauding a businesswoman of N70m, a duplex, two five-bedroomed […]

Angry workers in their thousand disrupted the 2017 May Day celebrations at the Eagle Square, Abuja, over the failure of the Federal Government to give them a new minimum wage in the country. The workers insisted that the Federal Government had a responsibility to give them a definite position on the lingering issue of a […]

Nigeria’s internal secret service, the State Security Service (SSS), is enmeshed in a recruitment scandal following the exposure of a shocking lopsidedness in the composition of the new officers recently absorbed into the agency. The agency commissioned 479 cadet officers after their passing-out parade in Lagos on March 5, at a ceremony attended by the […]