By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to dip hands in the N2.1 trillion pension fund to implement infrastructural projects in the country. A committee headed by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state had in the course of the National Economic Council meeting in Abuja on […]

Clashes between Syria’s regime forces and armed groups in the country’s last major opposition bastion have killed more than 60 on both sides in the past 24 hours despite UN calls for de-escalation, a war monitoring group said Friday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 38 jihadists and allied rebels had been killed […]

…Threatens litigation By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti The crisis rocking the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State deepened further, as the leadership of the party accused former governor Ayodele Fayose of selling the party secretariat to himself by proxy. The party alleged that Fayose sold the secretariat, to one of his cronies without the […]

Sunday Adole, a security guard, on Friday appeared at the Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, after he allegedly stole his lover’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards and withdrew N1.09 million from the account. Adole, 41, who resides at No. 9, Ijeun Street, Off AD Filling Station, Agege, Lagos is arraigned for stealing to which he […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned one Kelechi Nwaturuocha before Justice Darius Khobo of State High Court Kaduna on a two-count charge bordering on impersonation and cheating Kelechi sometime in 2019 disguised himself as a lesbian named Donna Walshak on the social media and used the false identity to defraud one Vanessa […]

Doctors under the aegis of Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) are presently embarking on a peaceful protest in Osogbo over the killing of Professor Jerome Elusiyan.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on the United States not to sign a trade deal with China unless Beijing agrees to release two Canadians detained since last year, prompting a defensive response from Beijing. Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor have been held in China’s opaquCe legal system since they were apprehended […]

EX-AGITATORS under the auspices of 21st Century Youth of Niger Delta and Agitators with Conscience, on Friday, rejected the latest decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to kick out the governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and keep the Interim Management Team, IMT.  

Beijing on Friday accused the European Parliament of hypocrisy, after a resolution called for targeted sanctions against Chinese officials over the treatment of the Uighur minority. China has faced international condemnation for rounding up an estimated one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in internment camps in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. Members […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Mr. Victor: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has disbursed and presented the sum of N480 million as life insurance premium benefits to 258 families of late employees of the state. Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Mrs, Yetunde Arobieke, on behalf of the state government, on Friday, presented the premium […]

Britain on Friday named Andrew Bailey, head of the Financial Conduct Authority regulator, as governor of the Bank of England to help guide the economy through any Brexit fallout. “I am delighted to announce that the next governor of the Bank of England will be Andrew Bailey,” said finance minister Sajid Javid, adding that the […]

House of Representatives Committee on Finance has said it will commence action on the implementation of the 2020 budget (Appropriation Act) from January 16, 2020.

Sunday Adole, a security guard, on Friday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for allegedly stealing his lover’s ATM card and withdrawing N1.09 million from the account. Adole, 41, who resides at No. 9, Ijeun St., Off AD Filling Station, Cement in Agege, Lagos is charged with stealing to which he pleaded not […]

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he wanted the Senate to launch the impeachment trial immediately. Trump made this known on his Twitter page late on Thursday. “So after the Democrats gave me no Due Process in the House, no lawyers, no witnesses, no nothing, they now want to tell the Senate how to run […]

Against the backdrop of a Nigerian court that declared on Thursday that s£x work is not a crime since there is no law that forbids it, Nigerians have taken to Twitter to state their views playfully around the matter. Justice Binta Nyako of the high court in the capital, Abuja, on Thursday, awarded damages to […]