Anosike brothers face fresh fraud, money laundering charges
The Federal Government has instituted fresh charges of money laundering, advance fee fraud and fraudulent conversion against the Anosike brothers – Noel and Fidelis – and their company, Folio...
View ArticleLUTH doctors to sue Lagos for tax deductions
Resident doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital,Idi-Araba are to drag the Lagos State Government to court to challenge the alleged “abnormal” tax deductions from their salaries. The doctors...
View ArticleAlao-Akala, others have fraud case to answer – Court
An Ibadan High Court on Wednesday declared that former Oyo State governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, and two others have a case to answer in a fraud allegation preferred against them by the Economic and...
View ArticleEnugu cleric, churches pray for Chime
Founder of the Adoration Prayer Ministry Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has declared a six-day fast and prayer for Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State. Chime has been away from the state since September. The...
View Article‘Pastors in politics will liberate Nigeria’
National Vice Chairman (South-South), Action Congress of Nigeria, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, on Wednesday, called on clerics and other men of God to participate actively in politics. Ize-Iyamu, who...
View ArticleBlame bad leadership for terrorism in North – Govs
Borno State Governor, Ahaji Kashim Shetima, on Wednesday, traced the emergence of the Boko Haram insurgency and other violence in the North to bad governance resulting from the high rate of poverty...
View ArticleAfenifere tackles FG on insecurity
Pan Yoruba Socio-political and cultural organisation, Afenifere on Wednesday asked President Goodluck Jonathan to address the state of insecurity and the wanton destruction of lives and properties in...
View ArticleBayelsa lawmaker may lose seat over defection
The Deputy Chief Whip of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mr. Tonye Isenah, may lose his seat in the House, following his defection from the Labour Party to the Peoples Democratic Party. Isenah, a...
View ArticlePrisons boss pledges improved security
Controller-General of Prisons, Mr. Ibrahim Zakari, said his administration was working to improve on security in prison facilities in response to the security challenge in the country. Zakari made this...
View ArticleHoodlums raze church in Kwara
Some yet-to-be-identified people set ablaze a church building belonging to Living Faith Church Inc, aka Winners Chapel, along Airport Road, Ilorin about 2.30am on Wednesday. Church property worth...
View Article…govt followed due process – Fashola
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Thursday said the government followed due process in making the state Road Traffic Law. Fashola, who reacted to a High Court ruling that upheld the law,...
View ArticleTraffic law: Okada riders lose suit against Lagos
A Lagos High Court, Ikeja on Thursday dismissed a suit by some commercial motorcyclists (okada riders) in Lagos State challenging the state’s traffic law restricting their operation from federal roads...
View ArticlePolice promise hitch-free festivities
The Lagos State Police Command has assured Lagos residents of a hitch-free yuletide and New Year celebrations. It said security had been beefed up to protect lives and property in the state during the...
View ArticleMy son not laundering money for me – Lamido
JIGAWA State Governor, Sule Lamido, has debunked reports that his son, Aminu, who was arrested at the Aminu Kano Airport, Kano on Wednesday, was laundering money for him. Aminu was arrested by...
View ArticleSenate insists on arrest of pension reform boss
The Senate Joint Committee on Pensions has insisted that the warrant of arrest issued on the Chairman of the Pensions Reforms Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, will stand despite his late arrival at...
View ArticleAmosun tasks Arewa forum on unity
Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, on Thursday in Abeokuta called on the various ethnic nationalities to close ranks in the interest of the country’s corporate existence. Amosun said the various...
View ArticleN’Assembly agrees on death penalty for terrorists
The National Assembly on Thursday agreed that any terrorist act that results in the death of another Nigerian would carry a death penalty. This is contained in the report by the conference committee...
View ArticleReps threaten to order arrest of Okonjo-Iweala, Aig-Imokhuede
For failing to appear before it twice, the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions, on Thursday, threatened to order the arrest of the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and...
View Article‘Merger plans to be concluded 2013’
All Nigerian Peoples Party has stated that it will wrap up its merger arrangement with other opposition political parties by the first quarter of 2013 in order to produce the next president in 2015....
View ArticleUS stocks fall on ‘fiscal cliff’ fears
United States stocks fell slightly on Thursday, pulling back from six straight days of gains despite a batch of positive economic releases as “fiscal cliff” negotiations in Washington weighed on...
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