$25b NNPC Contracts: Senate under pressure to drop probe
The Guardian NG The Senate has postponed the commencement of its planned investigation into the alleged award of $25 billion worth of contracts in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).Following the allegation of...
Why another attempt at power devolution may fail – Saraki
NAN The President of the Senate has disclosed that overheating discuss on the devolution of power might stall another attempt to get it passed in the Constitution Amendment process.
Saraki disclosed this to newsmen...
Wizkid’s gets Soul Train Awards nomination with ‘Come Closer’ video
Ayo ‘Wizkid’ Balogun’s ‘Come Closer’ has earned him a Soul Train Awards nomination just less than 24 hours after being nominated for two Mobo Award.
The Nigerian superstar was nominated in the best dance performance category...
Aare Ona Kakanfo: Alaafin of Oyo reveals why he picked Gani Adams
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has revealed all the reasons he appointed Otunba Gani Adams as the new Aare Onakakanfo.
These reasons are revealed in his letter released yesterday titled: ‘The making of...
Treason Trial: Produce Nnamdi Kanu or lose N300m bail bond, court tells Abaribe, other...
Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has fixed Nov.20 for Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe and two other sureties to produce Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu for trial.
The judge gave...
Detained Dasuki asks court to adjourn trial indefinitely
Detained immediate-past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), on Tuesday asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to suspend and adjourn indefinitely his trial on charges of illegal possession of firearms and money laundering.
Arguing the...
“Nigeria has been having accidental leaders since 1999”- Na’Abba
A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ghali Umar Na’Abba has said that Nigeria has been having accidental leaders since the commencement of the Fourth Republic in 1999.
Na’Abba who served as...
“I will never return to PDP !” -Obasanjo
Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has vowed ‘never’ to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The elder statesman told journalists after he met with the National Caretaker Chairman of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi,...
President Jacob Zuma’s son faces murder trial in South Africa
Duduzane Zuma, son of President Jacob Zuma will face trial soon for culpable homicide, Rights group Afriforum said on Tuesday.
Duduzume would privately be prosecuted over an accident in 2014 where one person was killed.
South...
Unity bank sealed up over alleged tax evasion
Unity Bank Plc has been sealed up by the government over tax evasion.
It was gathered that the bank kicked against the law by refusing to remit N105 million personal income Tax/Assets.
Customers of Unity Bank...