Former Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has dragged the Lagos State House of Assembly to court over its ongoing probe of the ex-governor for allegedly procuring 820 buses worth over N7 billion without budgetary approval. Ambode is due to appear…
A Councillor representing a ward in Kaduna state has been arrested the Economic and Financial Commission. According to PM News, a councillor representing Kakuri Hausa Ward in Kaduna South Local Government of Kaduna State, Theophilus Madami has been arrested by…
Nigerians have been given tips by the US embassy on how to avoid falling victim to fraudsters. The U.S Embassy in Abuja on Tuesday advised professionals and young people including students to desist from clicking on any site except those…
Emergency response in Lagos may soon grind to a halt following a fresh altercation between the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency Response Unit’s workers and a contracting company, Avantgarde Management Services, which the state government outsourced emergency response to. The…
Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has said Nigeria should maintain a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives as presently constituted. He said the adoption of a bicameral legislature by the framers of the constitution was intended to…
A photo of a Nigerian Police woman has left tongues wagging after she was spotted hanging on a bus. The woman said to have taken over the conductor’s role, hanged on the bus and refused the come down after the…
About 500,000 bags of local rice was sold by millers within one week of the border closure, the Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, has revealed. Emefiele made the revelation on Monday while briefing reporters after meeting with…
A man identified as Destiny Asuquo has been arrested for breaking into a store in Rumuodara, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State, to steal biscuits, sausage roll and soft drinks. The 25-year-old plumber who hails from Akwa-Ibom state, was arrested by…
President Muhammadu Buhari has cautioned officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force against harassing young people in their bid to arrest ‘Yahoo criminals.’ Buhari handed down this warning in his keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Conference…
Twenty-seven suspected internet fraudsters have been arrested in one fell swoop as the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission stormed Owerri, capital of Imo. The suspects were arrested on Thursday, October 24, 2019 in Eura Hostel, Naze-Obibiezena Road,…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says it stepped up work on the N6 billion 132KV transmission line and 132/33KV sub-station, which it is constructing at Okitipupa in Ondo state, to cover about 2,000 communities. According to a statement issued…
Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, says over 40 million Nigerians are unemployed. Farouq spoke when she appeared before the house committee on women affairs and social development to defend the ministry’s 2020 budget…
A woman has raised alarm in Owerri after being harassed by security operatives who arrested him. A Nigerian woman identified as @thacutearies on Instagram has pleaded for help after officers of the Police Force stormed a compound in Owerri, without…
A female fraudster who successfully defrauded US athletes millions of dollars has been sentenced by a court. A 59-year-old Malaysian-born con-artist has been sentenced to 51 months in an American prison after pleading guilty to identify theft and fraud. Washington…
A 23-year-old woman, Deborah Nwachukwu, has been arrested by the Police in Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria after she allegedly escaped with her estranged lover’s Sports Utility Vehicle, SUV and other valuables. According to a report by PM News, the incident…
A 16-year-old boy, Adewale Ayuba, has been arrested by officials of the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps (LNSC) for allegedly killing his mate during a cult clash in Ijanikin. It was gathered that the incident occurred on October 21 during…
Just two days ago, On the 26th of October, 2019, a man who apparently, was in the Catholic Priesthood for 25 years reportedly married his beautiful bride in Kaduna State. On the said date, which was on Saturday, the former…
It seems the race to 2023 Presidential election has started as Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly and Presidential hopeful recently sent out a cryptic jab to “Bourdillon”, the name of former Governor of Lagos State and National…
As part of effort to end the lingering security challenges in the country,the Nigerian Army is set to launch its first indigenous Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle designed and built by Command Engineering Depot in collaboration with the Defence…
On Sunday night, the headquarters of Federal Inland Revenue Service at Wuse Zone 5, Abuja was gutted by fire. Video of the fire incident have been circulating on media, in a short video file published by Tribune Online late on…