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Lagos Land Use Charge: Buhari Youth Organisation Appeals to Ambode

AGENCY REPORT... The Buhari Youth Organisation (BYO), Lagos state chapter on Thursday appealed to Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state to rescind the controversial new Land Use Charge (LUC) Act, 2018. The group made the plea...

Dapchi Schoolgirls Abduction: Unlike Jonathan on Chibok, I respond faster to kidnappings – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that unlike what the previous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan did during the abduction of Chibok school girls in 2014, his government has shown commitment to rescue the girls as well...

US Democrats snatch Reps seat in Republican heartland

US Democrats claimed victory in a special congressional election in a Pennsylvania Republican heartland, a vote seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s performance, although the vote remained officially too close to call...

UCL: Barcelona trash Chelsea 3-0

Barcelona thumped Chelsea 3-0 at Camp Nou on Wednesday in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League Round of 16, to move into the quarter-finals. The Catalans who held Chelsea 1-1 in London two...

Gov. Aregbesola’s administration most corrupt, incompetent in history of South West Nigeria- Omisore

……Says governor lacks moral right to demand accountability from anyone Former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore on Tuesday declared Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s administration holds the record as the most inept, prodigal and...

APC Chieftain drags Oyegun, Oni, others to court over tenure elongation

One of the notable chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adewale Hameed, on Wednesday urged a Federal High Court in Lagos to declare the purported tenure elongation of APC’s national officers as...

Famous Cambridge scientist, Stephen Hawking, is dead

Stephen Hawking, a cosmologist and one of science’s brightest, has died, his family announced Wednesday. Hawking was 76. According to statement made by the family, Mr. Hawking passed on in the early hours of Wednesday...

Angela Merkel begins fourth term in office

AGENCY REPORT... Angela Merkel on Wednesday finally began her fourth, and likely final, term as German chancellor. Now in office, Ms. Merkel and her newly appointed Social Democratic finance minister, Olaf Scholz, will travel to Paris...

NBA fires against Land Use Charge in protest, says “stop killing justice in Lagos’’

Urges governor to suspend LUC....... Members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikeja branch yesterday protested against the increase in the Land Use Charge (LUC) law in Lagos State, The Guardian NG reports. The lawyers during...

Gov. Bello forming another Boko Haram in Kogi with vigilante group – Dino Melaye

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday signified danger in a move made by the Kogi state government for arbitrarily passing a law to run an illegally armed vigilante with the mandate to take over the...