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Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has said that corrupt persons in Nigeria must not be allowed to go free if the scourge of corruption is to be properly tackled. Soyinka also urged President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari to probe whoever needs to be ...

Kunle, Abeokuta: Two men help 85-year-old Esther Fadairo after she cast her vote at Ward 11, Unit 22, Shokori, Abeokuta South

There was pandemonium at Polling Unit 046, Sam Sonibare Street, Surulere, Lagos, as a team of soldiers beat up a youth for taking their pictures. It was learnt that the soldiers, about 25 in number, were in a big truck, ...

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Unidentified armed thugs on Thursday night attacked Nasir El-Rufai’s Campaign Office in Kaduna state. Though the motive for the attack is yet to be established, there are insinuations that it was allegedly masterminded by some PDP supporters. A press statement ...

Only four days after Kunle Afolayan took a shot at Igbos saying they are exclusively behind motion picture theft in Nigeria, a film marketer, Gabosky who is additionally an Igbo man, has said there’s no requirement for estimations and Igbos ...

The Commander, 2nd Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Brig.-Gen. Koko Essien, told journalists on Thursday night that security personnel had arrested six suspected political thugs involved in electoral violence during the March 28 presidential elections in ...

Twenty-two persons were killed on Thursday when Boko Haram insurgents attacked two villages in Borno State. In Dile, a village in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of the state, a member of the youth vigilante group said 20 people were killed ...

Controversial preacher and social critic, Dr. Femi Aribisala, in this interview with TUNDE AJAJA, insists that President Goodluck Jonathan’s defeat in the presidential election was as a result of a conspiracy against the minority South South region   Since the ...

The last presidential and National Assembly elections showed the increasing popularity of APC in the country. Therefore, there are indications that the governorship elections will throw up stiff competitions across the country, with some states having stiffer battles than others ...