France pays tribute to former president Jacques Chirac
France’s National Assembly and Senate stood in silence on Thursday to mark the death of former president Jacques Chirac. Chirac, who ruled France from 1995 ...
Month: September 2019
Buhari Speaks On Probe Of Corrupt Persons, Says Nigeria Lost $157.5bn In 10 Years
President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that Nigeria lost an estimated US$157.5 billion to illicit financial flows between 2003 and 2012. He spoke at a High-Level ...
Two Nigerian Nationals Arrested With 75.4 Grams Of Drugs In India
The Anti-Narcotics Cell of Goa Police has nabbed two Nigerian men for being in possession of 60.1 grams of cocaine and 15.3 grams of MDMA ...
NNPC: Oil Will Remain Relevant Beyond 2040
Contrary to assumptions in some quarters that oil would soon lose its value, Mallam Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) ...
Super Eagles Striker, Kelechi Iheanacho Breaks 12-month Goal Drought On Leicester City Return
Kelechi Iheanacho, Tuesday night, scored his first competitive goal for Leicester City in just over a year as the Foxes advanced to the fourth round ...
Buhari: I’m Aware 54% Of Nigerians Live Below Poverty Line
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in New York, said he was aware that 54 per cent of Nigerians live below poverty line. This is coming as ...
RCCG Assistant General Overseer Is Dead
The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG has announced the passing on of the Assistant General Overseer of the church, Pastor Elijah Daramola who died ...
How We Caught Headteachers Collecting Levies In Ogun Public Schools – Gov Abiodun’s Aide
Some principals and headteachers who allegedly disobeyed Governor Dapo Abiodun’s order suspending the collection of levies or fees from pupils in Ogun State public schools ...
Independence: FG Declares Tuesday Public Holiday
The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, Oct.1, as public holiday to mark Nigeria’s 59th Independence Anniversary. The Permanent Secretary,Ministry of Interior, Mrs Georgina Ehuriah, announced ...
Bill Gates Turned Me Into A Different Person – Dangote
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has said that his meeting with billionaire philanthropist, Bill Gates, turned him into a different person. Dangote said this on ...
Police Arrest Military Officer With Large Quantity Of Indian Hemp [PHOTOS]
Police in Jigawa State have arrested a military personal with 169 blocks of herbs suspected to be Indian hemp. He was nabbed in Ringim Local ...
Trump complains again of harassment after impeachment probe launched
Donald Trump described himself Wednesday as the worst-treated president ever after Democrats announced a formal impeachment inquiry against him. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in ...
India’s investments in Nigeria hit $15b
INDIA, through her companies operating in the country has invested $15billion in Nigeria, its High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Abhay Thakur on Tuesday. The envoy ...
Nobody must maltreat Osinbajo – Northern youths
The coalition of Northern Nigerian Youth has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to halt any attempt that can lead to maltreatment or embarrassment of any kind ...
Protesters demand Ambode’s probe
SCORES of protesters under the aegis of Lagos Youth Vanguard (LYV) on Tuesday protested at the Lagos State House of Assembly complex demanding the probe ...
Xenophobia: ECOWAS citizens seek access to African Court
Following reports that the Nigerian government plans to sue South Africa at the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Court) over the renewed ...
Navy nabs 12 rice ‘smugglers’
The Nigerian Navy, Forward Operating Base, Ibaka, Mbo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, has nabbed 12 suspected rice smugglers. According to the Commanding Officer ...
Oba Oniru dies at 82
The Oniru of Iruland, Oba Idowu Abiodun Oniru, is dead. Oniru died yesterday in Lagos after a brief illness. He was 82. The first-class monarch’s ...
Xenophobia: Six Nigerian students cancel trip for robotics competition in South Africa
Six Nigerian students who will represent the country at the Africa Robotics Challenge (ARC) in South Africa on September 28 have cancelled their trip to ...
Saving Nigerian girls from sex slavery
There were startling revelations recently on how Nigeria girls were used as sex slaves in some West African countries. The Director-General of National Agency for ...