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Novelist, poet and dramatist Captain Elechi Amadi died today at the Good Heart hospital, Port Harcourt, River State. Some of his works include: The Concubine, The Great Ponds, Isiburu, Sunset in Biafra, Dance of Johannesburg, Peppersoup, The Road to Ibadan, ...

Mohammed Umar, a key member of the panel investigating the mismanagement of public funds meant for the war against Boko Haram, was arrested after Pres. Buhari received damning reports that he was involved in alleged money laundering and illegal possession ...

10 days after, police finally arrest the man who withdrew over N500k from someone else’s bank account using a stolen ATM card.

The identities of the two inmates who escaped from Kuje prison on Friday night, have been unveiled. They are Maxwell Ajukwu from Delta state and Solomon Amodu from Kogi. They were awaiting trial for culpable homicide, before their escape. Efforts ...

Following his AMCON debt saga, Senaor Ben Bruce goes motivational.

Physically challenged man who is Nigeria’s most wanted job scammer, arrested. The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has arrested, Abubakar Rilwan, one of Nigeria’s most wanted notorious fraudsters involved in online advertising scams on non-existing vacancies in government agencies, PRNigeria is ...

For lacking federal character, among other gross irregularities the Nigerian Senate has rejected President Buhari’s ambassadorial nominees list.

In statement issued today in Abuja, the PDP Senator urged Gov. Fayose “to stop the needless mudslinging against Aisha Buhari.” He likened Fayose’s attempt to link Aisha with the Halliburton scandal as a “needless distraction and an amateurish shadow-boxing. His ...

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 ...