REPORT: Boko Haram demands $50m to set free the Chibok girls
The terror sect, Boko Haram, is asking for a ransom of nearly $50million from the Federal Government for the release of the 219 Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the insurgents two years ago,...
View ArticleFellow Nigerians, please let’s #SaveSolaMartins
Olusola Martins, born some 36 years ago in Zaria, Kaduna state, Nigeria hails from Oke Ero LGA, in Kwara state; Nigeria. He started his professional career in Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB) in 2006 and...
View ArticleTroops rescue 14 hostages from Boko Haram
Nigerian troops attached to the 155 Task Force Battalion rescued 14 persons and recovered weapons from Boko Haram insurgents, the Army headquarters said on Sunday. The troops were on patrol to Nimila...
View ArticleGovernor Yahaya Bello welcomes Smart Adeyemi to the APC
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has welcomed Senator Smart Adeyemi to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The former two-term Senator, dumped the People’s Democratic Party for the APC. Adeyemi...
View Article‘Don’t touch Jonathan’, Ijaw youths warn Buhari
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has warned that any attempts by the Buhari led federal government to prosecute erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan for alleged acts of corruption will be met with...
View ArticleDangote scores Buhari high on the economy
President and Chief Executive of the Dangote Group Alhaji Aliko Dangote said yesterday that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was on the right path in the diversification of the nation’s...
View ArticleFederal government apologizes to Nigerians for the scarcity of petrol
The federal government has empathized with Nigerians over the gas shortages that have ensured long queues remain an eyesore across the country. Minister of Information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed...
View ArticleAlex Otti: How to lie with statistics
“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned lies and Statistics” Above were the words of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881). Disraeli became British Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1852 and after running...
View ArticleAttorney General calls on Arase to unseal Kogi house of assembly
The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has called on the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, to unseal the Kogi State House of Assembly Complex, which has been under...
View ArticleEFCC to arraign Orji Uzor Kalu on money laundering charges, May 16
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on May 16 re-arraign Orji Kalu, former governor of Abia state, before Justice Anwuli Chikere of the federal high court, Abuja. When arraigned,...
View ArticleThe Lagos-Calabar rail project was in the budget–Senator Ashafa
The senator representing Lagos East in the upper legislative chamber, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, has added his voice to the raging controversy over whether one of the pivotal capital projects in the 2016...
View ArticleREPORT: Abati once told Jonathan that his image wasn’t in a bad shape
Dr Reuben Abati who served as erstwhile President Jonathan’s special adviser on media and publicity was smart enough to tell his boss at the time that his popularity ratings were doing just fine. The...
View ArticleWe are not at war with the national assembly over the 2016 budget–Presidency
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, on Monday said President Muhammmadu Buhari did not reject the 2016 budget as is being speculated. Mr....
View ArticlePolice barricade NFF secretariat, chase away all workers, as Nigeria faces...
You had to be sporting some running sneakers at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) secretariat located around Wuse, Abuja today, Monday. The glass house has been embroiled in a power tussle between...
View ArticleREPORT: Oil hits four-month high, trades at $42 per barrel
Brent crude prices rose to a four-month high on Monday as a rally in wider commodities markets encouraged buying ahead of a meeting of oil producers in Doha next Sunday. The meeting is aimed at...
View ArticleWanted Tompolo sues federal government
Government Ekpemulopo, alias Tompolo, may be wanted by all the security agencies in the land, but he’s found time to file charges against the federal government of Nigeria from his hiding place....
View Article‘We buried 347 Shiites in mass graves’| Kaduna govt goes against the army’s...
Kaduna state director-general of Interfaith agency, Namadi Musa, had said on Monday that he spent five hours conducting mass burial for victims of the December clash involving soldiers and some...
View Article‘They want to destroy my ministry’| TB Joshua wants you to know he has no...
Controversial cleric, T.B Joshua has denied media reports that the leaks now called #PanamaPapers linked him to floating a company in the offshore island of Panama. On Monday, Premium Times ran the...
View ArticleOne missing Chibok schoolgirl recently rang her Dad’s phone
When Dauda Yama retrieved his mobile phone from a neighbour’s house in January this year, he noticed a missed call from his daughter Saratu who had been missing for almost two years. The last time he...
View ArticleWe’ll restore the Lagos-Calabar rail project to the budget–Senate
The senate is willing to restore one of president Muhammadu Buhari’s cardinal capital projects in the appropriation bill–the Lagos/Calabar rail project–to the 2016 budget document. The omission of the...
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