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“If Jack Rich continues to drag this, I will unleash more with a body slam!The society should be free from men like Jack Rich who steal from the people’s commonwealth to fund their lifestyle!” Following a recent publication, credited to Jackson Ude, a former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan accusing...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has implored Nigerians to have faith in God that the country will experience peace, stability and prosperity. The president spoke to reporters on Wednesday after observing the Eid-el-Kabir prayers at Dodan Barracks prayer ground in Lagos. Tinubu, who stressed the need for unity and cooperation, appealed...

A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) to pay N1 million to Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), over unlawful detention. Obiora Egwuatu, presiding judge, also awarded N200,000 fine against the ICPC as the...

Ethnic nationalities in Kogi State took to the streets in Abuja on Tuesday to protest the serial killings allegedly orchestrated by agents of politicians. By 10 a.m., the ethnic nationalities under the aegis of the Coalition of Igala/Bassa Socio-Cultural Associations stormed the Garrison Command of Defence Headquarters in Abuja, chanting...

The acting Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has issued a directive ordering all police convoys to henceforth, as a matter of compulsion, obey all traffic regulations. The IG gave the directive Monday during his meeting with the Mobile Police Squadron and commanders at the Force headquarters in Abuja. According to...

The UN’s top humanitarian official in Nigeria, Mr Matthias Schmale, has said that severe hunger is affecting 4.3 million people in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. Schmale told journalists in Geneva on Wednesday that the number of children under five at risk of life-threatening severe acute malnutrition had doubled in one...

Gov. Bassey Otu and his wife, Rev. (Mrs.) Eyoanwan Otu, 3rd and 4th left. Hon. Emmanuel Ironbar, Chief of Staff to the Governor, 1st left, Deputy Comptroller of Corrections, Effiong Edet, Mr. Adeyinka Adebayo, Comptroller of Correction,, Cross River, 5th left and Chief Imam, Calabar Central Mosque, Olowolayemo Kabir, during...

The Family of former APC Presidential Aspirant, Mr. Tein T.S. Jack-Rich CON, has described recent accusations of corruption against the former Aspirant as false and politically sponsored. The family in a statement through his media desktop said the accusations making the rounds in the past two days on some online...

Foremost Tinubu support group, Disciples of Jagaban (DOJ) has organized a special prayer session on Arafat day in honour of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu. In an interview with the organizer of the special prayer session, Engineer Mohammed W. Yahaya, Coordinator DOJ North Central, said it became necessary to organize the...

…Writes Police IG Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Wednesday, raised the alarm over threats to his life allegedly from a former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva. Frank who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, said...