Sowore’s bail conditions varied, may be out in days

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has varied the earlier stringent bail conditions granted the convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu granted the order in a ruling on the application for bail variation by the duo charged with treasonable felony among others. She waived the earlier requirement […]

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My husband beats and rapes me, I am quitting marriage -Nigerian actress

Nigerian actress, Bose Oladimeji has disclosed that she is quitting her marriage of two years because of the domestic abuse she claims she has constantly been subjected to. According to Bose, her husband beats and rapes her each time he comes home drunk. She told Vanguard that the domestic violence she has been subjected to […]

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Kidnapped Suleja Police Area Commander rescued

Nigerian police have rescued Assistant Commissioner of Police, Musa Rabo, who was kidnapped along Barde-Jos road by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Saturday. He was rescued unhurt on Sunday by a combined team of police operatives from Kaduna, Niger and Zone 7 Headquarters, Abuja, backed by members of the elite police special forces. While […]

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Osinbajo is tribalistic as Acting president, employed only church members, his tribesmen -Junaid Mohammed

In an interview with the Sun, Second Republic lawmaker, Dr. Junaid Mohammed said Osinbajo made some mistakes in the discharge of his functions as the Acting President, adding that on the whole Osinbajo was tribalistic and focused more on his people. Dr. Junaid Mohammed said this while backing President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to reassign the […]

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CBN objects to MTN’s planned charges for USSD transactions

The Central Bank of Nigeria has opposed plans by MTN to charge their subscribers for Unstructured Supplementary Service Data access to banking services from Oct. 21. The Governor of CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, gave the bank’s position at a news briefing by the Nigerian delegation to the just-concluded World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings, in Washington on […]

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If injustice, inequity persist, Nigeria may explode -Prof Akintoye

Leader of Yoruba World Congress, Prof. Banji Akintoye, Saturday warned that Nigeria could break up unless there was deep sense of equity, justice and fair play among all ethnic nationalities in the country. Speaking during an interview on Fresh FM 105.9 FM, an Ibadan-based radio station, he called on the Fulani hegemonists “to give up […]

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Nigerian sentenced to prison for fraud in US, ordered to pay restitution

A United States court has sentenced a Nigerian national, Segun Otaru, 27, to four years and three months in prison without parole. Otaru was jailed for his role in a large fraud conspiracy that used various internet scams to defraud victims, according to a local news website KY3. Aside the prison term, US Chief District […]

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Being married is not a reward for good character -Actress Joselyn Dumas

Ghanaian star actress, Joselyn Dumas has shared her view on having a good character, marriage and being single. Joselyn stated that being married is not a reward for having a good character neither is being single a punishment for having a bad character. She also advocated for an end to measuring a woman’s attitude with […]

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Thisday Editorial Board Chairman, Adeniyi losses brother, Agboola Adeniyi

Mr. Agboola Adeniyi, younger brother of Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, Chairman of the Editorial Board of THISDAY, is dead. In a statement on his twitter handle @olusegunverdict on Saturday, Mr. Adeniyi said Agboola died on Friday morning at an Ibadan hospital of complications arising from liver cancer. He said Agboola left behind a wife, two children […]

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Senate president Ahmad Lawan allegedly uses office to get 26 FIRS job slots for his people

Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmad Lawan (Yobe North) was said to have secured 26 job slots for his constituents, from the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Daily Trust exclusively gathered. This is just as the job scandal rocking the upper chamber gets messier with senators threatening showdown over the sharing formula of the employment slots given to […]

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Prisoners in America earn higher than Nigerian workers –Aregbesola

Nigerian Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday shocked the nation, when he hinted that the least daily upkeep of a prisoner in America was higher than the proposed N30,000 minimum wage for the least Nigerian worker. Aregbesola made the startling revelation at a budget defence session of his Ministry with members of the Senate and […]

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Details of new adjustment formula agreed by Nigerian govt, Labour on minimum wage

Nigerian Government and Labour have finally reached an agreement on the adjustment formula for the implementation of the new minimum wage. The agreement reached late Thursday night was made known by the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo. It came after several attempts by the negotiating parties failed to yield fruits, six […]

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Mozambique elections peaceful, transparent -Jonathan-led AU observers say

The African Union (AU) has described Mozambique’s October 15, 2019 general elections as peaceful and conducted in a transparent manner. AU, which deployed a team of election experts and short-term observers to the southern African nation’s Presidential, legislative and provincial elections, noted that voting stations opened on time, while polling was largely conducted in a […]

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Electricity consumers to pay N75,000 for single phase prepaid meter in Nigeria, -Business Day writes

With the current imposition of 45 percent import tariff on prepaid meter by Nigerian Customs, the price of a single-phase meter will now be around N75,000 while the price for two-phase meter will be in the region of N100,000, according to Business Day. The Federal Government had stipulated N37,000 and N75,000 as prices of single-phase […]

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Actress Funke Adesiyan becomes Aisha Buhari’s political aide

  Nollywood star actress and politician, Ms Funke Adesiyan has been appointed as one of the political aides to the first lady, Aisha Buhari. The Nigerian movie star was appointed Personal Assistant to the First Lady on Domestic and Social events. The appointment was recently announced on the official website of the Federal Ministry of […]

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Fayemi gives assent to six new bills in Ekiti

Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Wednesday, signed six new bills into law to commemorate his one year in office, saying stiffer penalties now await convicted Gender-Based Violence offenders in the state Speaking after signing the six bills into law in his office, the governor observed that it was a collective responsibility of all […]

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