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Finally some good news for Giuliana and Bill Rancic: they're expecting! The couple, who married in 2007, will be first-time parents this summer via a gestational surrogate who is carrying the couple's biological child. "We are so thrilled ...
Politicians on Monday said that for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct successful general elections in 2015, it should disengage some of its officials found to be corrupt. They made the call in separate interviews with the ...
Controversy is still trailing the Hon. Farouk Lawan-chaired House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee Report on fuel subsidy, as no fewer than 17 oil companies have faulted their indictment by the report. The oil firms have also threatened to file N100...
Kidnappers of the former Minister of Interior, Captain Emmauel Iheanacho and Mrs Rachael Nkwuorgu have demanded for a ransom payment of N20m for each of them. Meanwhile fresh facts have emerged on the circumstance that led to the kidnap of the former m...
The joint security patrol team in Kogi State has discovered another bomb making factory in the central axis of the state. The state director of the State Security Service,Mr. Mike Fubara, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lokoja,said the factory w...
Vice-President Namadi Sambo yesterday led a Presidential delegation to Ilorin, the Kwara State capital to commiserate with the Belgore family over the death of the wife of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Alfa Belgore, Alhaja Fatimoh ...
A Non Governmental Organisation, Initiative for Mass Education Against Corruption, MEAC, yesterday said its investigations into the alleged corruption charges leveled against former Kogi State governor, Ibrahim Idris by Dino Melaye, an ex-lawmake...
Disturbed by the increasing rate of social vices occasioned by the consumption of Indian Hemp, the Ohom Orba Autonomous Community in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State has warned that henceforth, anybody caught with the hard drug wo...
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), has said that it will resist any attempt to kill the report submitted by the Farouk Lawan Committee on Fuel Subsidy Fund. Chairman of TUC in Rivers State, Comrade Hyginus Chika Onuegbu, who disclosed this in a...
Gombe State government has spent over N19billion on the construction of 50 township roads and six highways. The Governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo, disclosed this while flagging-off township road construction in Billiri Local Government Giving a breakdown of ...
The Director-General of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC),Ms Aruma Oteh, honoured the invitation by the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC) on March 24 to clarify the alleged N44m bribery allegation. This was contrary to ...
The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has declared that, but for the intervention of God and the unflinching support of the people of the state and beyond, the state would have been disrupted by political adversaries. The gov...
Lagos State House of Assembly has reiterated the dangers associated with the dreaded Lassa fever, insisting that it kills as fast as possible, especially if the patient was not quickly taken to the hospital. The Chairman House Committee on Information ...
Voice of Widows Association in Nigeria [VOWAN] has advocated for stiffer penalties that will discourage men from divorcing their wives at will. President of the association, Hajiya Atine Abdullahi made the call in Kano, yesterday, at a lecture organise...
Former Governor of defunct Bendel and Midwest states, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia, at the weekend in Benin City, Edo State called on the leadership of the party at various levels to work assiduously in the task of unseating incumbent Governor Adams Oshiomhole...