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Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, has directed that all beer retailing outlets located within the Police community in the state be shut down indefinitely. The directive was sequel to the dismissal of a…
The Lagos state resident electoral commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Sam Olumekun disclosed that 1.5million permanent voters cards (PVC) are yet to be collected in Lagos. He spoke in…
The United States Institute of Peace has denied predicting victory for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 General Election in Nigeria. The Institute in a statement on its website on Tuesday captioned: “Correcting a…
The Nigerian senate, on Wednesday, has urged the federal government to do all within its powers to resolve all issues relating to ongoing strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The motion was moved…
The Buhari Media Organisation says U.S. lobbyist were paid millions of dollars to secure an American visa for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The Chairman, Niyi Akinsiju and…
The Kano state house of assembly has insisted that it will continue the probe of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, over videos of him collecting bribes. A high court in Kano had on Monday, ordered the ad hoc committee set by…
Members of the Nigerian senate has criticised the Nigeria Police Force for dismissing the alleged assassination attempt on deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, as burglary. Members of the Senate, at the plenary on…
The 65-year-old leader of Shiite Islamic sect, Sheik Ibrahim Zakzaky and his wife have been denied bail by the Kaduna High Court. The Court sitting on Wednesday denied the bail application filed by counsel to the leader…
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the proposed N30,000 as the new national minimum wage. He gave his approval while receiving the report of the Tripartite Committee on the Review of National Minimum Wage at the…
Nigeria's foremost traditional rulers visited the prince of Wales, Prince Charles who arrived in Nigeria today as part of his West African tour. The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi’s arrival was preceded by a…
The Nigerian Air Force on Tuesday said, that its fighter aircraft operating against recalcitrant insurgents in the northeast have bombed a Boko Haram camp in Borno , killing many of the terrorists and destroying their…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday received Prince Charles and his wife, Princess Camilla at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Prince Charles and members of his entourage arrived the State House at about 2.20p.m.…
A cross-section of workers on Tuesday in Abuja, expressed mixed reactions on organised labour’s suspension of the Nov. 6, proposed strike to press for the implementation of a new national minimum wage. The Nigeria…
Unknown gunmen on Tuesday shot and killed one Alhaji Nasiru Maimasara before kidnapping his daughter at Gachi quarters in Kankia Local Government Area of Katsina State. Sources told the News Agency of Nigeria that the…
85 years old Cameroonian president, Paul Biya, was sworn in on Tuesday for a seventh term in office after disputed elections amid mounting unrest in an English-speaking region. He pledged to uphold the “integrity (and)…
The Senate has mandated its Committee on Police Affairs to investigate the alleged assassination attempt on the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and members of his family. It would be recalled that Ekweremadu’s…
The Minority Leader of the Kano State House of Assembly representing Kura/Garun Malam constituency, Alhaji Abdullahi Muhammad-Chiromawa has defected from Peoples Democratic Party to People’s Redemption Party. The member…
A former governor of Ekiti state, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has accused the federal government of planning to inflate the price of petrol from N145 to N185 in March, 2019. Fayose described the planned increment as a way of…
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the NLC ahead of the labour uniom strike scheduled to start tomorrow. Buhari made the appeal when he received members of the Association of Retired Career Ambassadors of…
The Chairman of the Lagos State Branch of the Nigeria Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede, announced on Monday that the union would join the planned NLC strike if government and labour failed…
