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A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, to vacate office immediately for submitting false information to his party, PDP, for the party’s governorship primary in December 2014. . Justice Okon Abang in ...

The Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria ( AMCON ) sealed off Silverbird Group’s outlets across the country today after the inability of Sen. Ben Bruce and his brothers to repay about N11 billion credit they obtained from Union Bank. In ...

A statement issued today by him, reads in part; “I have no financial transaction whatsoever with Dasuki and Sen. Obanikoro either by cash, cheque or electronic transfer. The management of Zenith Bank, which majorly funded my election, called me to ...

The Presidency has dismissed as laughable the desperate attempt by Gov. Fayose of Ekiti State to link Aisha Buhari to William Jefferson’s bribery scandal. Reacting to Fayose’s allegations in a press statement, the SSA to the President on Media and ...

Resident doctors in government hospitals embarked on a nationwide strike yesterday. A circular issued by the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, effecting their sack, reads: “It has come to the notice of the management of the ministry that some resident ...

The partnership that will see Lagos emerge as the first Smart City in Africa, was signed yesterday in Dubai. A Smart City is a growing concept that draws from the success of Dubai’s innovative knowledge-based industry clusters to empower business ...

Buhari appoints Ibrahim Kpotun Idris as new Inpector General of Police as Arase retires today.

Retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Niki Tobi, has died. Tobi passed on in the early hours of Friday at the National Hospital, Abuja. His corpse was later moved to the morgue of Garki General Hospital. The retired judge ...

A commercial Toyota Sienna bus lost balance, somersaulting into the bush on Tuesday 7th June killing 1 woman and leaving 4 injured close to Ihiala LGA headquarters along Onitsha-Owerri Road in Ihiala, Anambra State. Eyewitnesses ran towards the accident scene ...

Yesterday, James Bala Ngilari was taken to the Federal Teaching Hospital, Gombe, in an ambulance, after he complained of ill health, DailyTrust reports. He was detain at the Gombe zonal office of the commission on Thursday in connection with the ...