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President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Morocco on a two-day working visit to the country. During the visit, he would meet with the King of Morocco, HRM Mohammed VI, to discuss socio-economic matters affecting the two countries. The meeting would ...

An unidentified woman on Sunday, plunged in to the lagoon on 3rd Mainland, in Lagos. As at 8.45pm, efforts were still on to recuperate her body, without luck. There have been however, conflicting accounts regarding the way the incident happened. ...

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, has implored the Federal government to return power to regionals as it was practised before the military coup of 1966, saying the idea of federal character has eroded merit in the country. Oba ...

The Inspector – General of Police , Ibrahim Idris , has disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered him to redouble efforts to tackle the killings around the world.  Idris disclosed this yesterday at the state handover of 150 operational ...

  Traders in Ebonyi who obverse the sit- at -home order by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra on Wednesday, May 30, will permanently forfeit their shops , Governor David Umahi said on Tuesday. Umahi , who made the declaration in ...

Nobel Literature laureate, Wole Soyinka, has said that for the fight against corruption in Nigeria to succeed, the frontline anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) would have to take on some of the country’s former leaders. He ...

The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Soludo has decried a predicament where only eight percent of the Nigerian population is controlling ninety percent of the nation’s wealth. Speaking at the maiden District conference of ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 11 arrested 12 suspected internet fraudsters in the Ikoyi section of Lagos.  Based on an article on social media by the anti-graft agency, its operatives stormed the most popular Club ...

Based on the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday, no federal university should charge tuition fees. The Minister of State for Education, Anthony Anwuka, stated this while briefing State House correspondents following the cabinet meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi ...

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said Nigeria is on a terminal nose-dive and that its pilot, who he noted is missing, must cry for international help as many had advised. Soyinka, who stated this in a statement he issued ...