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MTN Nigeria says in regards to 6,000 Nigerians will lose their jobs if MTN is made to leave Nigeria. Head of Communications MTN, Mr Wale Goodluck said this while responding to calls by a a protest group in Edo state yesterday ...

A Federal High Court in Lagos has further reserved ruling till May 27, 2015, on the preliminary objection filed by the founder, Living Faith Church, a.k.a. Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, against the N1.86bn claim by a stock brokerage firm. ...

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Olisa Metuh has distanced the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) from the controversy surrounding the handling of the PDP Presidential campaign funds saying the NWC never received any amount ...

Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, says comments made by the commander of the US army in Europe, Lieutenant General Frederick “Ben” Hodges, in a recent interview, is ...

According  Saharareporters, the government of the United States of America has begun fresh moves to extradite Senator-elect, Buruji Kashamu to face drug trafficking charges, which he has been evading for several years now. This was revealed by his lawyer, Mr. ...

The All Progressives Congress has urged Nigerians to disregard what it portrayed as “the wild hypotheses” making the rounds concerning the arrangement of ministers and the zoning of workplaces under the approaching Muhammadu Buhari administration. In an announcement in Abuja ...

In a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the Nigerian Consul-General in South Africa, Amb. Uche Ajulu-Okeke, said Nigerians living in South Africa have lost more than N21m Rand (1.2m) in plundered shops, smoldered shops, two blazed mechanic ...

Chieftain of the PDP, and Senator-elect for Ogun East Senatorial District, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has raised alarm over what he describes as a plan by former President Obasanjo to instigate local and foreign security agencies to arrest him in Nigeria ...

An Ijaw group called the Ijaw People’s Development Initiative, IPDI, in Delta State, over the weekend asked President Jonathan to grant presidential pardon to former governor of Delta state, James Ibori, before he leaves as president of Nigeria on May ...

If statements from the president-elect, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, are to be believed, the incoming administration, to be inaugurated on May 29, will hit the ground running. Buhari says he intends to put together a small cabinet that may go into ...