The EFCC re-arrested the embattled former speaker Dimeji Bankole and his deputy, Alhaji Usman Bayero Nafada, over the following fresh charges

Nigeria’s diplomatic dexterity saved the situation in Lusaka at the weekend as Ethiopia and Cameroon lurched at each other over which of them would hold the next ministerial forum of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

An Ikeja High Court in Lagos, Monday, granted bail to a former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola and his associate, Bayo Dada.

Dayo Johnson Akure SIX persons including two blood brothers have been arrested by Police intelligent officers in Ondo state over the discovery of ten hectares of farmland where substances suspected to be Indian hemp worth about N2billion were planted. Led by the state Police Commissioner Alhaji Sani Mogaji, the police officers numbering about fifty invaded […]

Barely 10 minutes after Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, Monday, released the embattled former speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole on bail, he was immediately re-arrested by security operatives from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

FIRST Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, is among five eminent Nigerians to be conferred with honorary doctorate degrees at this year’s convocation ceremony of the University of Port Harcourt.

The Nigerian Immigration Service has so far generated N45, 365, 545, 500 from the issuance of e-passport due to formally take effect as Nigeria’s official travel document in December 2011.

THERE are indications that Coca-Cola International, employers to Mr. Segun Ogunsanya, who was appointed Chief of Staff to Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, may not release him to assume his new office.

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, after a meeting, weekend, refused to pay ransom for the release of five corps members kidnapped in Rivers State.

Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Maharazu Tsiga, weekend, warned against supply of sub-standard kits for Batch B corpers, insisting on strict adherence to stipulated standards by contractors.

As part of measures to forestall an outbreak of reported cases of the E-coli infections in parts of Europe and Asia in Nigeria, the Lagos State government has called the attention of relevant authorities, especially at the nation’s ports and borders to ensure that the deadly disease was prevented from coming into the country.

THE push for who to be appointed as minister and other federal slots from Enugu State has resulted in a face_off between the state Governor, Sullivan Chime, and the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.

MEMBERS of the House of Representatives are spoiling for a fight with the Presidency over the sale of the official residential quarters of principal officers of the National Assembly to the Senate President, David Mark, former Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and former Deputy Speaker Usman Bayero Nafada.

VICE-Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Pastor Tunde Bakare, in the April presidential election has exonerated the presidential candidate of the party, General Mohammadu Buhari, from the post-election violence allegedly perpetrated by CPC supporters, noting that the party is not a group of killers.

The dispute between the former Governor of Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki and his father, Dr. Olusola Saraki, over who called the shots in the state has been resolved.