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By Leke Baiyewu The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, warned the Federal Government against terminating the contract signed with a private firm, Iris Smart Technologies Limited, for the production of electronic passports booklets. According to the House, procuring the equipment capable ...

A famous Nollywood actor Murphy Afolabi has passed away.Afolabi’s death was announced on Sunday by Tunde Ola-Yusuf, a fellow actor in the Yoruba subsector of Nollywood. Sharing a picture of the actor, Ola-Yusuf wrote: “REST IN PEACE. “May God give ...

Troops uncover ‘ISWAP’s underground armoury’ in Sambisa forest Troops of the 21 Armoured Brigade, operation Hadin Kai, have reportedly recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition from the Islamic State of the West African Province(ISWAP) in Sambisa forest, Borno ...

By Leke Baiyewu The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has assured that the Nigerian Parliament will investigate the delay by the Egyptian Government to allow Nigerians evacuated from war-torn Sudan into its territories. Gbajabiamila noted that the House ...

By Daud OlatunjiMen of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 43-year-old man, Hassan Yusuf, for allegedly setting the apartment of his ex-lover, Busayo Falola, ablaze. The suspect reportedly burnt down the whole building situated at no 127, old Schorlar ...

By Adekunle Sulaimon With two days to the governorship and state assembly elections scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 18, the focus in the South-East state of Anambra will be on who controls the state House of Assembly. This is so ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says that it has found solutions to some of the impediments capable of hampering the general elections expected to start with the presidential polls on February 25. The commission for the umpteenth time also ...

Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) on Sunday says that the initial commercial vessel has berthed at the Lekki Deep Sea Port. This is contained on the state Twitter handle of the authority. It reads, ”In front of the President’s commissioning of @LekkiPort ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday, recorded 19 successful bids as the curtain was drawn on the sales of forfeited landed properties, in Abuja. The properties, located in different parts of the country, were forfeited to the federal ...

Popular actor, Sunday Akanbi Akinola, professionally known as Baba Feyikogbon has passed on. According to reports, the thespian who rose to the limelight in the 1980s and 1990s with his popular weekly sitcom, the Feyikogbon series died at the age ...