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A member of the seventh House of Representatives and governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Bamidele Faparusi, has promised to join forces with other like-minded people to prevent some All Progressives Congress leaders from relegating Ekiti South Senatorial District in the politics of the state. For the party’s National Working Committee to keep its integrity […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]