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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a former senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani for allegedly extorting $10,000 from a businessman, Alhaji Sani Dauda, owner of ASD Motors who has a case pending with the anti-graft agency. A statement by the SA Media & Publicity to Acting Chairman of EFCC, […]

Senator Rochas Okorocha has described himself as the ‘highly misunderstood’ person in Nigeria, owing to the feedback he gets from people who define him from different angles. Okorocha who is representing Imo West Senatorial district said this on Channels Television programme Newsnight. The former governor of Imo stressed that since he ruled the state for eight […]

A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced 29 intelligence officers to death for torturing and killing a teacher. Ahmad al-Khair, 36, died in custody in February following his arrest for taking part in protests against former President Omar al-Bashir’s administration. These were the first sentences handed down over the crackdown on pro-democracy activists in the months […]

Shehu Sani, former senator representing Kaduna central, says Nigerians will face “more hardship” under President Muhammadu Buhari in 2020. According to Nation, Sani said this during a radio programme on Invicta FM Radio in Kaduna  on Sunday. Urging the current administration to stop blaming past governments for the situation of the country, Sani said things […]

Ministers can only travel out of the country eight times in a year, Information, Culture & Tourism Minister Lai Mohammed has disclosed. He said President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that no minister should go on foreign trips more than twice in a quarter. Besides, no minister on a trip outside the shores of the land […]

Motorists will have to endure additional 12 months of  nerve-racking traffic on the 35-kilometre Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonsoki-Ojota highway  in Lagos for its  reconstruction to be completed. Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, who inspected work on the road in company with President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, said on Sunday that the road would be delivered end of […]

Pastor Tunde Bakare has revealed that the last time he stepped into a banking hall for transaction purposes in 1985. The Senior Pastor of Latter Rain Ministry said the other times he had stepped into a banking hall would be either to sanctify a new branch. Pastor Bakare said the banks had always come to […]

Lagos State Government on Sunday appealed to health care providers, including public and private health facilities operating in the state, to stop rejecting gunshot victims and other trauma patients for not providing police report or provide evidence of funds before commencing treatment. Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, in a statement yesterday while reacting to […]

An Igbo based group, Igbo Presidency Project Movement 2023 has warned people of northern Nigeria to respect the zoning of the presidency and relinquish power to the south in 2023. The group described the calls by the Leader of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Yerima Shettima for the north to produce the president for the […]

A former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that Nigeria’s current debt situation is closer to the prevalent situation in the 70’s and 80’s that led the country and the African continent as a whole into unserviceable debts. Mr Obasanjo said this on Friday in Lagos at the first edition of the Nigerian Story organised by […]

Former Brazil international Hulk has reportedly been dating the niece of his wife following the end of their marriage. Hulk, real name Givanildo Vieira de Sousa, is currently plying his trade with Shanghai SIPG in China. The 33-year-old split from his wife Iran in July 2019 after 12 years together. The couple have three children […]

A teacher at a private primary school in Lagos, Jacinta Igboke, is being held in police custody for the murder of her estranged lover, Arinze Ani. Igboke reportedly stabbed Ani to death on Tuesday during an altercation at his shop on Old Ojo Road, Satellite Town area of the state. City Round learnt that Ani, who […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians not to let terrorists divide the country along religious lines, following execution of some Christians and Muslims by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). President Buhari said: “I am profoundly saddened and shocked by the death of innocent hostages in the hands of remorseless, godless, callous gangs […]

The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has projected a high cost of doing business in 2020. Muda Yusuf, the LCCI Director-General, made the projection in the LCCI 2019 Economic Review and Outlook For 2020 made available to journalists on Thursday in Lagos. He attributed the projected high cost to poor infrastructure, multiplicity of […]