The Comptroller General Of The Customs Service Has Voluntarily Resigned
The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko Inde has voluntarily resigned. It is unclear why Inde, a native of Katsina like President Muhammadu Buhari, but openly supported...
View ArticleAthletic Bilbao end 31-year title drought with 5-star Barcelona masterclass
Madrid (AFP) – Athletic Bilbao claimed their first trophy in 31 years as they drew 1-1 with 10-man Barcelona to win the Spanish Super Cup 5-1 on aggregate on Monday. Lionel Messi had given the...
View ArticleThai authorities are looking for yellow shirt suspect seen in CCTV footage at...
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai authorities said on Tuesday they were looking for a suspect seen on closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage near a renowned shrine where a bomb blast killed 22 people,...
View Article#EkekeeeFACT: $12 billion – The amount of money the EFCC says Nigerians left...
The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, says that currency declaration by travellers leaving Nigeria amounted to about $12 billion over the last three years. He...
View ArticleWe are 100 percent in support of your anti-corruption war, the Sultan tells...
President Muhammadu Buhari can at least count on the support of the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Sa’ad Abubakar III, as he wages an anti-graft war on several fronts. The Sultan spoke at the...
View ArticleWinnie & Nelson Mandela’s grandson charged with raping a 15-year old girl in SA
The grandson of Winnie Mandela and former President Nelson Mandela appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on charges that he raped a 15-year old girl in Greenside, South Africa. It’s alleged...
View Article#WarOnBokoHaram: Yobe says it has rehabilitated 300 classrooms
The Yobe State Government said it has rehabilitated over 300 classrooms and provided infrastructure in schools destroyed by insurgents across the state “to avoid gaps in the system.” The Director of...
View Article54 bodies found as Indonesia confirms plane crash; retrieves black boxes
Hadi Juraid, Transport Ministry Spokesman, said search and rescue teams on Tuesday found all 54 bodies in the wreckage of a plane that crashed at the weekend in Indonesia’s Papua province. He said in...
View ArticleFashola’s N78m website: we refuse to be intimidated–BudgIT
The public accountability and advocacy firm which first brought the humongous sums in the Lagos State procurement processes under the Babatunde Raji Fashola administration to light, BudgIT, has said...
View ArticleI hate Okocha, Sunday Oliseh says
New Super Eagles gaffer, Sunday Oliseh shed exactly no light on his relationship with his former Super Eagles teammate, Austin Jay Jay Okocha. The pair have been rumored to have a strained...
View ArticleBoko Haram opened fire on a Yobe village and 150 drowned in the river as they...
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) – Up to 150 people drowned in a river or were shot dead fleeing Boko Haram gunmen who raided a remote village in Nigeria’s north-eastern Yobe state, locals said on Tuesday. Dozens...
View ArticleElectricity union protests shut down DISCOs across Nigeria’s South South region
The National Union of Electricity Employees disrupted activities at electricity distribution companies in the South South on Wednesday. The reason? An alleged violation of workers’ rights. The NUEE’s...
View ArticleArmy says it killed an unspecified number of ‘terrorists’ in Borno on Tuesday
Nigerian soldiers have killed an unspecified number of insurgents during a fierce gun exchange in the town of Gwoza, Borno on Tuesday. Acting army spokesman, Col. Sani Usman, in an email to...
View ArticleThird time unlucky: Wike’s losing streak against Dakuku in Rivers election...
Governor Nyesom Wike had a pretty forgettable day at the Rivers State Governorship election petition tribunal, sitting in Abuja on Wednesday. Honestly, he’s been on a bit of a bad run of late. READ:...
View ArticleNaeto C’s reaction to the NBC blacklisting his 2012 Tony Montana song says it...
We told you earlier that a host of local and foreign musicians had their songs blacklisted from getting airplay on Nigerian radio and television stations. READ: These songs are not to be played on...
View ArticlePutin ‘would consider’ meeting with archnemesis Obama at the U.N.
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend next month’s U.N. General Assembly in New York and would “consider constructively” any request for a meeting there with...
View ArticleThai police say Bangkok blast suspect may be from Europe or the Middle East
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police said on Wednesday that a suspect captured by CCTV cameras minutes before a bomb exploded at Bangkok’s Erawan shrine was a foreigner, and his appearance suggested he...
View ArticleSouth Africa suspends decision to release Oscar Pistorius
Johannesburg (AFP) – South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, serving a five-year prison term for killing his girlfriend, may not walk free as expected this week because the decision to release him...
View ArticleGhana will ship in 177 Cuban doctors in wake of crippling strike
Accra (AFP) – Ghana has said it will bring in 177 new doctors from Cuba to help limit the damage from a crippling strike by medics over pay and training. Some 2,800 public sector doctors began...
View ArticleFamily of 15-year old victim says Winnie Mandela meddled in rape case
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela tried to derail a complaint from a teenager accusing Nelson Mandela’s grandson of rape, a spokesman for the alleged victim’s family said Wednesday. READ:...
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