Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, Thursday secured the approval of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to arraign Ifeanyi Ubah and his Capital Oil and Gas Limited over the fraudulent value of assets tendered to offset N132 billion owed the corporation.

Amnesty International has said the Army, police, other security agents and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, must exercise restraint at today’s funeral of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu’s parents.

Gunmen killed seven persons and injured five in Southern Kaduna on Wednesday evening. They invaded  Maro village near Kajuru in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The Executive Chairman Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Muhammad Nami, has blamed non-discretionary tax waivers, illicit financial outflows and high overhead costs for the organisation’s failure to meet its tax revenue targets in recent times.

In a bid to reduce demand pressure in the foreign exchange market, and enhance dollar inflow into the economy, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday introduced the longest Naira-settled Forwards contract. 

By Donu Kogbara I WAS minding my business in my Abuja residence yesterday – and feeling depressed about the state of the nation – when my phone rang. It was an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain friend. “The Supreme Court has just returned Bayelsa to PDP (Peoples Democratic Party)!” he told me. “It’s a lie!” I […]

•What the Arab League, allies must do By Ishola Balogun The increased instability in Yemen, Syria and Libya underscores a need for a more realistic solution path to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one that is far from the United States President Donald Trump’s peace plan tagged “Deal of the century.” The plan which was handed down […]

*Reiterate commitment to reduction of hajj fares *Commends Mohammed on giant strides The new Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, National Hajj Commission, NAHCON, Barrister Dhikirullah Hassan has reiterated his commitment to bringing down the cost of Hajj, saying he would harness new ideas to drive this initiative. Barrister Hassan who stated this during handing over ceremony at […]

Says college expended 2.181bn TETFund allocation without due process The Commission of Inquiry set up by the Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, to investigate activities of four tertiary institutions in the state in the last 10 years, has uncovered how the law establishing one of the colleges was altered, and funds expended by circumventing […]

Muslim Association of Nigeria (MAN) has described the inclusion of a birth certificate from a Church in the requirement for enlisting into the Amotekun security outfit as superfluous. The group in a press release signed by the President and Public Relation Officer, Alhaji J. O Ojikutu and Alhaja Nurat Adebayo respectively at the end of […]

*Urges him to address hajj challenges The Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) has described the appointment of Alhaji Dhikrullah Olakunle Hassan as the new Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) as apt. In a congratulatory message to the new Chairman which was signed by Abdur-Rahman Balogun and Tajudeen Adebanjo, National President […]

The Coalition for Human Rights Monitoring Groups in Nigeria (CHRMGN) has fingered British journalist, Conor Fortune and Amnesty International to be behind a new sponsored plot to blackmail the Nigerian military in the war against terrorism.

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned food vendors and others against the use of paracetamol as tenderiser in cooking meat and beans, saying it can cause kidney and liver failure. Mrs Roseline Ajayi, the Kwara Coordinator of NAFDAC, said this on Thursday in Ilorin during sensitisation programme for […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) describes the comments of the factional National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on the ruling of the Supreme Court on the Bayelsa State Governorship election as an empty and inconsequential ranting.

National Chairman,  All Progressives Congress (APC)  Adams Oshiomhole has faulted the Supreme Court judgment declaring the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Douye Diri as new Governor-elect in Bayelsa.