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About 31 lawyers have expressed their interest in defending a Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, suspended in connection with a $1.1m scam involving a self-confessed fraudster, Ramon Abbas a.k.a Hushpuppi.Barrister Bappah Salisu, who spoke for the group of lawyers ...

How Oyedepo’s Living Faith Church Paid Graduate Pastors N38,000 Monthly — Another Pastor Opens Up Another pastor, who was among the 40 recently sacked pastors by the Bishop David Oyedepo’s Living Faith Church, has explained how pastors who were graduates ...

Olayomi Koiki, the spokesperson to Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, has raised an alarm that the Nigerian police should be held responsible if the Yoruba Nation rally turned violent in Lagos State.He said this in ...

Bypass web filters using a VPN In some cases, you won’t be able to download or install a VPN, such as at work or school. But if you’re using your own device which isn’t restricted like that, you can install ...

Sodiq Oyeleke The Federal Government has agreed to release the Swiss-flagged San Padre Pio oil tanker that was seized in January 2018. Switzerland’s foreign ministry made this known in a press statement on its website on Thursday, titled, ‘Switzerland and ...

There was a drama at the cargo area at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, when one of the 250 cows flown into the country through the airport broke loose from its crate, leaving airport workers ...

Power consumers have raised the alarm that power distribution companies were now selling the free meters that were provided for electricity users by the Federal Government. In October 2020, the Federal Government inaugurated the National Mass Metering Programme in respect ...

n its determination to reduce youth unemployment in the South East, the federal government has concluded arrangements to equip the vulnerable in the ninety-five Local Government Areas that constitute the zone with vocational skills and other empowerment initiatives. This is ...

We’ll investigate, Odumosu assures A Lagos resident, Korede Abiodun, has raised alarm over the reappearance of disbanded Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) operatives on the road.Abiodun on Wednesday morning alleged that he saw at least four armed policemen wearing the ...

A captured Boko Haram fighter says Abubakar Shekau, leader of the sect, can no longer walk effectively.Mohammed Adam, a teenage fighter, who is currently in custody of troops of 195 battalion of the Nigerian army, said Shekau got injured during ...