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Ex Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, aides killed in Abuja

IMMEDIATE past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh was shot dea...
Houses, cars, burnt as explosion rocks Abule -Egba, Lagos

Tragedy occurred in the early hours of Wednesday, December 19, 2018, in the heav...
What is the fate of common Nigerians? If Alex Badeh can be assassinated – NANS

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), on Wednesday condemned the...
Alex Badeh 1957 to 2018

The Nigerian Air Force last night announced the shocking death of a former Chief...
FG facing serious financial challenges – Akabueze, Budget boss

Less than two weeks to the end of the year, Director-General of the Budget Offic...
Banks to jerk up lending rate for corporates in Q1’19

Banks will increase lending rates for corporate organisations in the first quart...
Buhari accuses NASS of increasing FG’s debt to states

President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the National Assembly of inflating the d...
PDP alleges fresh plot to remove Saraki

he Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has raised an alarm over an alleged fresh plot...
Yuletide: FG opens Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Sagamu road to traffic

Ahead of the Yuletide and to ensure smooth travelling experience for motorists,...
2019: Buhari, a poor student of history- Atiku

ABUJA- Ahead of the 2019 general elections, Presidential candidate of the Peop...

Crime Guard

Alleged N1.4bn fraud: NBA President, Usoro arraigned, gets N250m bail

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arraigned President of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr Paul Usoro, SAN, before a Federal...
Kidnappers give family of Ondo civil servants deadline to raise ransom
Octogenarian, 3 clerics, another, arrested with human heart, flesh

Law & Human Rights

Businesswoman, 39, docked for allegedly issuing N4.1m dud cheque

A 39-year-old businesswoman, Shodiyan Bisoye, was on Monday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly issuing N4.1 million...
2019: CJN orders appointment of fresh Judges to handle election cases
Apapa-Oshodi Expressway Gridlock: Falana has no right to sue FG, Fashola tells court

Health

Stakeholders in Bayelsa call for efforts to end drug abuse

YENAGOA—BAYELSA State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr Daniel Iworiso-Markson, weekend, advocated the setting up of a special committe...
How failure to tackle injection drug use harms Nigeria’s health
Ambode Launches Lagos Health Insurance Scheme

Education

Buhari urges ASUU to end strike

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria Universities to call off the industrial action embarked upon by its membe...
Ooni of Ife, Olu of Warri, set for LBM awards
Buhari urges ASUU to suspend strike in national interest

Just Human

Monarchs join forces against Osu caste system in Igbo land

A group of traditional rulers from the South East has thrown their weight behind the effort to eradicate the discriminatory Osu Caste system in some p...
Why would you reduce my age by one?, Buhari protest
Pastor buys $200,000 Lamborghini car for wife

Woman

Mrs Obaseki tasks women on unity, support for govt programmes

Wife of Edo State Governor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, has urged women in the state to stay focused in the pursuit of a better life, noting that the Obaseki-...
Yuletide: Obaseki celebrates Edo market women
Founder, flying doctors pens book on healthcare improvement in Nigeria

Interview

Import license regime, cause of shipping cost differential — Nwokeoji

Immediate past Deputy National President of the Association of Nigeria Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Emenike Nwokeoji, in this interview with Godfre...
How Kiriji war captives brought Islam to Erinmo – Oba Ajayi
Kano, Jigawa have more local govts than all Igbo States — Senator Umeh

Metro

Why SDG projects failed in oil communities of South-East, South-South

Lack of funding and neglect on the side of the government have been identified as some of the reasons forestalling the actualisation of the Sustainabl...
How over 30 prison inmates regained freedom in Imo
Yuletide: FG opens Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Sagamu road to traffic

Article of Faith

The blessing of trouble

Nobody likes trouble. Nevertheless, it habitually confronts us. In lamentation, Job says: “Man who is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble...
Putting God under house arrest
The prayer of faith

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