Indications emerged yesterday that a fresh massive fraud of an alleged N18billion illegal transactions had been unearthed by the Pension Reform Task Force at the Police Pension Office (PPO). A source close to the ministerial taskforce also confided in ...
Suspected financier of Boko Haram and serving senator, Ali Ndume, standing trial for alleged complicity in the activities of the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda'awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram, yesterday, asked a Federal High Court i...
The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of one Mustapha Adamu and one other for alleged involvement in the death of an officer of Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) Jos-Akwanga road in Jema’a Local Government Area of the State. The ...
Following the petition filed by former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dino Melaye before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Ibrahim Idris, the commission has decided to i...
No fewer than six persons were yesterday admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Ado Ekiti, and 14 others receiving treatments as a result of the various degrees of injuries they sustained, ...
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher yesterday assured Nigerians that the recommendations of the Stakeholders Judicial Reform Committee he set up on the reform of the judiciary would not be left unimplemented. The CJN who is als...
The Ministry of Education has concluded plans to organise a West African regional workshop on curriculum and teacher capacity building, in October this year, to address the problem of poor functional skills in school graduates. Inaugurating the steerin...
One of the leading contenders for the National Chairmanship of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Barrister Ibrahim Shehu Birma, has chided the leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) over his recent statement that PDP is trying to explo...
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has praised the calibre of Nigerian coaches attending the on-going CAF ‘B’ License programme being organised by the NFF, and endorsed by the Confederation of African Footbal...
Seven-time African champions Egypt want to play Nigeria in a friendly next month. Spokesman for the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ademola Olajire revealed that they have received a request from the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) for a friendl...
Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics gave out a report on the nation’s poverty index, where Katsina State ranked among the top five states with highest rate of poverty. Although states have reacted to the reports, analysts believe that it ...
Lionel Messi has broken Barcelona's 60-year-old goal-scoring record with a hat-trick in a 5-3 win over Granada at the Nou Camp in La Liga on Tuesday. Messi equalled the record with a volley off a post in the 17th minute and broke the r...
A Federal High Court in Gombe yesterday held that former Gombe State Governor Danjuma Goje and other four accused persons had a case to answer over their alleged involvement in N24.18 billion money laundering. Justice Quadri Babatunde, who ...
The bribery scandal-rocked investigation into the collapse of the Nigerian Capital Market by the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market and other institutions yesterday took another dimension as the chairman of the committee, Hon. Herman ...
In 2011, President Goodluck broke a covenant of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP with the Nigerian people, and secured the party’s ticket contrary to the gentleman zoning arrangement that power will reside in the North till 2015. The viol...