The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress and the party’s governors, on Wednesday, fixed July 29, 2017, for the party’s ward congresses, marking the beginning of the APC’s national convention. They also set a committee, headed by Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, to come up with the ruling party’s definition of restructuring. […]
Nigeria’s debt rose by N4.76tn in 2016 – DMO
Nigeria total debt rose by N4.76tn in 2016, the Debt Management Office has disclosed. The DMO disclosed this in its 2016 Annual Report and Statement of Accounts obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday. According to the office, Nigeria’s debt as of December 2016 stood at N17.36tn, up from N12.6tn a year earlier. This […]
We’re open to new investors – 9Mobile
A Global System of Mobile telecommunications operator, 9Mobile (formerly known as Etisalat Nigeria), has said the change of its brand name will not affect the quality of its services, even as it is open to new investors. The Chief Executive Officer, 9Mobile, Mr. Boye Olusanya, said the company would continue to make more positive contributions […]
Court orders seizure of Diezani’s $37.5m Lagos house, funds
The Federal High Court in Lagos, on Wednesday, ordered the temporary forfeiture of a property at Banana Island, Lagos, bought for $37.5m in 2013 by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. The property, designated as Building 3, Block B, Bella Vista Plot 1, Zone N, Federal Government Layout, Banana Island Foreshore Estate, […]
TuFace calls on Nigerians to support IDPs
The Africa hiphop crooner, Innocent Idibia (2Face) on Wednesday called on Nigerians to come out and support the internally displaced persons (IDPs). The singer of the popular song, African Queen, while promising to release the shoot of his visit to the camps to raise awareness of the condition of the IDPs at the camps, said the proceed […]
Madonna asks court to stop auction of Tupac’s love letter
Madonna asked a judge Tuesday to block an auction of memorabilia including a breakup letter from rapper Tupac Shakur, saying the intimate items were stolen by her former friend. The pop superstar filed a motion with a New York court a day before auction house Gotta Have Rock and Roll was set to start taking […]
Devil is a liar and I’m going nowhere – Halima Abubakar
Actress Halima Abubakar is reassuring her fans that there is no cause for alarm over her health status. The actress, who has been sick for a while now, took to her Instagram page to wish her friend Uche Elendu happy birthday and thanked her for always checking on her. Abubakar was also quick to reassure […]
Final year student killed as two cults clash
Mr. Diete Rufus, a 24-year-old final year Business Administration student of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro, has been killed in Bayelsa State. Rufus was reportedly killed in crossfire during a bloody clash between two rival cult on Sunday. It was learnt that three other persons also sustained injuries in the incident which occurred in Okpotuwari […]
Man abducts six-month old baby, saved from claws of death
But for the quick intervention of operatives of the Lagos State Task Force a young man would have been lynched to death by irate mob for alleged abduction of a six-month old baby in Lagos. The suspect, Idama Endurance, 31, who lives in the same compound with the tot’s parents on House No. 55, Oshodi […]
Scores feared dead in fresh Southern Kaduna clashes
A renewed attack between farmers and herders in Kajuru Local Government Area in Southern Kaduna, have claimed many lives while scores were said to have sustained varying degrees of injuries. The renewed crisis was said to have erupted on Sunday when some Fulani youths reportedly went to a village at Ugwan Uka to avenge the […]