The Nigerian Police Force (NPF) has said that it has commenced investigation into comments made by an alleged Police Officer Inusa Saidu Biu on Facebook. Inusa had threatened to kill 200 people if President Muhammadu Buhari dies, adding that he (Buhari) was poisoned but survived. See the post below: The statement signed by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Don…
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In its spirited efforts to transform Lagos into a mega city, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode‘s bulldozers might be working at the Computer Village, Ikeja soon. The state government has in the past months been leveling and destroying ‘illegal’ structures and shanties in the city. Although the government said the destruction of these communities, including the most reported Otodo-Gbame in…
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Just like last week’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, President Muhammadu Buhari was absent from the meeting of the FEC today at the presidential villa in Abuja. 20 Nigerian ministers also bailed from the meeting which was presided over by Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo. Reports say, the council chamber where the meeting is taking place is…
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At a public function yesterday, the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu openly snubbed the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adedeye Ogunwusii Ojaja II. Oba Akiolu refused to shake hands or acknowledge the greeting of the Ooni at the World Conference of Banking Institutes hosted in Lagos by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).…
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The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, has said that with the current efforts by the Federal Government to revive the country’s economy, the country should be out of recession by the third quarter of this year. Emefiele said this after meeting with the leadership of the Senate in Abuja on…
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that the immediate past US president, Barack Obama, desperately wanted him removed from office. Jonathan said Obama made it clear that the US wanted a change of government in Nigeria. The Obama administration was unsatisfied with the way Jonathan handled the fight against corruption, Boko Haram insurgency and the rescue of the…
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IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu has been granted bail after meeting some strict conditions. His bail was granted by Justice Binta Nyako on health issues with these conditions: Sureties with 1 million naira each, as Highly respected religious leader. He should deposit his entire international passport in court. Speaking Justice Nyako said: “Since he’s on…
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The autopsy done on the remains of Isiaka Adeleke, the Osun West Senator who died on Sunday in Osogbo, suggests that the late lawmaker had an overdose of painkillers in his system. Adeleke died early Sunday at Biket Hospital in Osogbo but his younger brother, Deji, ordered an autopsy to be done at the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital (LAUTH)…
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The State House correspondent of The Punch Newspapers, Olalekan Adetayo, was on Monday expelled from Aso–Rock over a story on President Muhammadu Buhari’s health. Adetayo had on Sunday reported that there was fresh anxiety at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa over Buhari’s health which irked the Security operatives at the Villa. He was summoned and interrogated by the…
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Four people were killed in two separate suicide attacks in northeast Nigeria on Monday, local militia members said, in the latest violence blamed on Boko Haram Islamists. Babakura Kolo, who assists the military with security against the jihadist insurgents, said the first incident occurred in Mammanti village, 15 kilometres (10 miles) east of Maiduguri. “Three…
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