In Lagos, soldiers got themselves arrested and paid fines for riding on BRT lane
Nine soldiers who plied the lane designated for the Bus Rapid Transit in Lagos State on Tuesday have paid fines to the state government, PUNCH Metro has learnt. PUNCH Metro had reported that some...
View ArticlePolice capture two more Boko Haram kingpins
The Nigerian army has announced the capture of two more Boko Haram leaders who were on the list of the 100 recently declared wanted by Army chief Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai. One of the sect’s factories...
View ArticlePaying fines, everywhere they go: Uganda slams MTN with $622,000 fine
The Commercial court has ordered telecom giant MTN Uganda to pay a sum of Shs 2.3bn (about $662,000) in damages to EzeeMoney Limited for sabotaging its business. Justice Henry Peter Adonyo on November...
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That moment when Remi Tinubu became Deputy Senate President (Pictures)
Ok, go ahead and judge us all you want, because we aren’t about to let this story go. Not yet. Senator Oluremi Tinubu (who represents Lagos Central in the upper legislative chamber) caused quite a...
View ArticleRufus Kayode: Dear Diezani, before you leave, kindly return our money
Nigeria is supposedly a rich nation whose wealth rather than being kept in a national portfolio or evident in some state-of-the-art public infrastructures and social amenities, is illicitly tucked in...
View ArticleEFCC picks up one of the recently fired permanent secretaries
Recall that we had filed a report a few days ago that some of the former permanent secretaries who were relieved of their roles on the eve of the inauguration of Buhari’s cabinet, may have corruption...
View ArticleREPORT: 105 Nigerian soldiers are nowhere to be found
The Nigerian Army has confirmed a PREMIUM TIMES exclusive report on Boko Haram’s attack on Nigeria’s 157 Battalion attached to the Multi-National Joint Task Force in Baga, Borno State. Citing a...
View ArticleCourt sacks Benue Speaker
A Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi today ordered the enforcement of its Judgment delimiting the constituencies of the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly. Consequentially, it ordered...
View Article105 soldiers aren’t missing–Chief of Army Staff, Buratai
The army high command has debunked online media reports stating that 105 soldiers disappeared into thin air in battle. The report emphatically read that 105 armed military personnel fell to Boko Haram...
View ArticleNominees for The Future Awards Africa 2015 to be announced on special...
The Central Working Committee for Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa has announced that official media partner, EbonyLife TV will be unveiling nominees for the 2015 awards in a...
View ArticleMass gathering of Boko Haram terrorists hit by Nigerian Air-Force drones
The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, on Thursday said the air component operation of “Operation Lafiya Dole” hit a “mass gathering” of Boko Haram terrorists at Wulge area of Borno State. The air component...
View ArticleDasuki lied when he said he was never invited by the arms procurement panel–FG
The federal government has said former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki who has been indicted by a panel probing acquisition of weapons by the Nigerian State in the last dispensation, was...
View ArticleHaving Fashola at the center will accelerate the infrastructural development...
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has said having his predecessor in a critical ministry in the federal cabinet will be a blessing for Lagos–an overpopulated city plagued with infrastructural...
View ArticleGovernors have said they can no longer afford to pay the N18,000 minimum wage
State Governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) have said it makes no economic sense to keep paying the N18,000 minimum wage with oil, the country’s main revenue earner, selling...
View ArticleMTN must pay the $5.2bn fine fully and promptly–Governors
State Governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) issued a communique at the end of deliberations on a number of issues on Wednesday and commended the Nigeria Communications...
View Article‘He even bought beds made of gold’| Peter Obi reveals how Obiano squandered...
Governor Willie Obiano and his predecessor Peter Obi have been embroiled in a war of words over what was left in the Anambra State treasury. While Obi has insisted that he left N75bn in savings for...
View Article“I didn’t award any $2billion weapons procurement contract”| Jonathan disowns...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan at a forum in Washington DC, Thursday, waded into the arms procurement scandal surrounding the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, saying his government...
View ArticleEbola resurfaces in Liberia
The World Health Organisation on Friday announced that a new case of the deadly Ebola virus has been discovered in Liberia, which was declared Ebola free in September this year. “There is one...
View ArticleHow gunmen seized a Malian hotel and left 27 dead
Reuters: Around 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a hotel seized by Islamist gunmen to rescue 170 people, many of them foreigners, trapped in the building. The...
View ArticleAccording to UNICEF, over 50 million Nigerians poo in the open
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has disclosed that over 50million Nigerians do not have access to toilets hence resort to defecating in the open. The report also noted that Nigeria ranks...
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