Zahra Buhari & her husband, Ahmed Indimi, others pose with Osinbajo as he marks 60th birthday

President Buhari’s daughter, Zahra and her husband, Ahmed Indimi pictured with acting president, Yemi Osinbajo at his 60th birthday celebration in Abuja yesterday. See more photos of Osinbajo’s wife Dolapo and daughter Kiki with the Acting President below: LIB

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Nigerian Peace Corps institutes N2bn suit against Police, DSS, AGF, over alleged unlawful arre‎st, detention

The Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), has slammed a N2bn suit against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), over the arrest and detention of its National Commandant, Amb (Dr.) Dickson Akoh and 49 others. The security agencies had on Tuesday, […]

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Nigeria’s Auditor-General indicts 17 federal ministries of being guilty of misappropriation of funds

17 Federal Ministries in Nigeria misapplied funds running into several billions of naira, the Auditor-General’s 2015 annual report has revealed. The report revealed that the infractions were perpetrated by top government officials between January and December 31, 2015. The report seen showed that Ministry of Information and Culture failed to account for N561.6 million. The […]

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Federal Court stops Aregbesola from increasing filing fees in Osun Courts

A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State has stopped the State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, from implementing the new regime of fees to be paid for filing documents in the courts of the State. Lawyers in Osun State trooped out today to celebrate this order of the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo. […]

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The Apo six: Court sentences 2 officers to death, discharges 3

Twelve years after, Justice Ishaq Bello of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has delivered judgment in the alleged extra judicial killing of six spare parts traders at Apo area of Abuja by six police officers in 2005. Delivering his judgement, Justice Bello sentenced two of the defendants to death and discharged the other […]

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Nigerians denied entry into the US share their pathetic stories

On Monday March 6, Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Diaspora matters, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, released a statement advising Nigerians who do not have any compelling thing to do in the US not to travel there at this time and until things become clearer as she has received reports of some Nigerians being denied entry […]

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President Buhari: Beware the Ides of March (Part 1), By Femi Fani-Kayode

In 44 BC the respected Roman seer and soothsayer Spurinna warned the great Consul and ruler of the Roman Empire Julius Caesar about the “ides of March”. He counselled him not to go out on that day because he had perceived that something terrible would happen. According to the Roman calender the ides of March […]

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Consortium of Banks set to acquire Etisalat Nigeria over N541.8bn unpaid loan

A consortium of Nigerian banks, including Guaranty Trust Bank, Access Bank and Zenith Bank are set to take over the management of Etisalat Nigeria following the inability of the network provider to pay back a loan facility totaling N541.8 billion obtained in 2015. The loan, which involved a foreign-backed guaranty bond, was for Etisalat to […]

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Buhari felicitates with Osinbajo at 60, calls him “partner in service to Nigeria” and friend

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on his 60th birthday. Buhari, who is currently in the UK on medical vacation, hailed Osinbajo as his “partner in service to Nigeria” and “friend”. He also wished Osinbajo “60 hearty cheers” in a birthday message posted on his Twitter account. It read: “60 hearty […]

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University student sentenced to death for killing fellow student in Ibadan

200 level student of Lead City University, Ibadan, Moshood Owolabi, has been sentenced to death by hanging for stabbing his fellow student to death. In his judgment on Wednesday, Justice Adegboye Gbolagunte of an Ibadan High Court sentenced Owolabi to death by hanging for causing the death of one Seun Kolawole, two years ago. A Physical […]

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Ex-military governor of Western Region, General Adeyinka Adebayo dies

Erin wo! The former military governor of defunct Western Region, Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo is dead. The elder statesman died in Lagos on Wednesday on the eve of his 89th birthday. Family sources said he suddenly took ill at his GRA Ikeja, Lagos home and he was taken to the hospital where he died shortly after. […]

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As the number of death in Ile Ife communal clash rises, Aregbesola declares curfew

The Osun State Government has declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew in Ile-Ife after clashes in the city claimed lives and led to the destruction of properties, a media to the state governor said on Wednesday. The curfew “has been compelled by the breach of the peace in the area which has led to an avoidable destruction […]

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5 people are feared dead in a communal clash in Ile-Ife, Osun, Nigeria

Five people are said to have been killed in a clash at the Sabo area of Ile-Ife, Osun State. Eyewitness account says the crisis started on Tuesday night when a rift broke out between a Hausa man and a Yoruba woman, leaving five people dead and properties worth millions of Naira destroyed. People living and […]

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Enjoyment of free s*x offered by local prostitute sends man to his early grave

The peaceful city of Anara in Isi­ala Mbano local government area of Imo State and its environs wit­nessed pandemonium as news of a man who died on top of a prostitute who offered him free s*x in a brothel as old customer spread like a wild fire. An eye witness, Mad­am Chineye Ukomadu said  that […]

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‘Coming to America’, movie actress Vanessa Bell is the sexiest woman alive at 60 (Photos)

On June 29 1988, Eddie Murphy’s movie: ‘Coming to America’ was released. One of the notable characters in the movie was Vanessa Bell Calloway who ‘ll be 60 this month. And to celebrate her upcoming milestone, she recently launched her This is My Sexy Sixty campaign, which empowers women to embrace their beauty at all ages. It’s 2017 and […]

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Meet Ekiti Governor, Ayodele Fayose the tailor in Ado-Ekiti (Photos)

The Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose took residents of Ado Ekiti by surprise when he turned a tailor during his working visit in the state capital. The amazed residents were happy at the humility of the Governor, and surely with what we’ve seen. he is “The people’s governor” See more photos below: Photo: Lailas

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14 illegal miners killed in South Africa, Police suspect gangs’ turf war

No fewer than 14 bodies of suspected illegal miners have been found dumped in the last two days in Benoni on the East Rand in South Africa’s Gauteng Province. A passer-by discovered the first six bullet-riddled bodies dumped on Sunday, and eight more were found by police on Monday. Police suspect it was a turf […]

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