Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The South African Government has granted a request for Air Peace to begin commercial flights to Johannesburg, South Africa. The confirmation was granted last Friday as part of the implementation of the Bilateral Air Service Agreement between Nigeria and South Africa at the meeting of the 9th session of the Nigeria/South Africa […]

Raphael Ede, Enugu The Igbo Union in Benue State, comprising Igbo residents in various parts of Benue State, on Monday said their lives and property were no longer safe in Benue State despite government assurances. Speaking through its Public Relations Officer, Mr Emmanuel Ezeadi, to journalists in Enugu, the union said as at Monday, September […]

Ade Adesomoju Abuja  Mrs Busola Dakolo, wife of Nigeria’s inspirational singer, Timi Dakolo, has asked the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja to dismiss the preliminary objection filed against the rape case she instituted against the Senior Pastor of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo. She stated in her response to the […]

Ade Adesomoju, Abuja A former chairman of the defunct Skye Bank Plc (now Polaris Bank), Mr Tunde Ayeni, on Monday pleaded with Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja for more time to conclude settlement talks with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over the money laundering charges the agency instituted against […]

Chdiebube Okeoma, Owerri The police have foiled attempts to cart way property belonging to the immediate past governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha. The building was sealed by the Economic and  Financial Crimes Commission. The force arrested 12 people and impounded two trucks said to have been driven to Okorocha’s house and one of […]

Daniels Igoni, Yenagoa Mother of former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia, is praying for her abductors to be arrested and prosecuted. Mrs Beauty Siasia said this during an interview with our correspondent in her home in Odoni community in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Monday. The 80-year-old was released by her abductors […]

Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt  THE Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, said on Monday that the state government decided to acquire Shell Petroleum Development Company’s 45 per cent stake in Oil Mining Lease 11 because it was in the best interest of the people of the state. Wike, who said this during a state broadcast at […]

Ade Adesomoju,  Samson Folarin and Oladimeji Ramon The Federal Government on Monday arraigned the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, on seven counts of treasonable felony, cybercrimes and money laundering. They both pleaded not guilty to the charges read to them when the operatives of the Department of State […]

Friday Olokor, Oladimeji Ramon, Olaleye Aluko and Godwin Isenyo The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has said terrorism and terrorist groups could not be eliminated alone by the military unless religious bodies and organisations in the country come to the ‘forefront of the spiritual battle.’ The army chief noted that the focus […]

Olaleye Aluko, Abuja Troops of the Nigerian Army have arrested a bus driver and seven passengers who are illegal immigrants and believed to be working for the Islamic State West Africa Province and the Boko Haram fighters along Yola Road in Borno State. The eight suspects were rounded up by troops of 331 Artillery Regiment […]

Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Federal Government is planning to borrow fresh N4.6tn within the next three years, covering 2020 to 2022, to finance its programmes, figures obtained from the Ministry of Budget and National Planning have revealed. If the N4.6tn new borrowings scale through legislative scrutiny and get executed, then Nigeria’s indebtedness to local and […]

Samson Folarin No fewer than 1,000 pupils of Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, have been taken home by their parents after the outbreak of what is suspected to be an infection. “It is over 1,000 (pupils) now as we speak. See, I cannot talk about what I don’t know. What you have in your palm, you […]

Peter Dada, Akure The coordinator of a youth group that organised a political rally in support of the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, last week in Akure, Mr Bamise Akintomide, has been quizzed by Ondo State Police Command. Akintomide was alleged to have been arrested and detained by the police for organising the rally for […]