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A London court has jailed Ike Ekweremadu for nine years and eight months in Britain’s first illegal organ-harvesting prosecution, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Friday. Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice, 56, and London-based doctor Obinna Obeta, 51, were sentenced to four years and six months, and ten years, respectively, the CPS...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has paid tributes to his late boss, ex-President Umaru Yar’Adua, 13 years after his death. Jonathan, who was Yar’Adua‘s deputy, described him as a “great and selfless leader”. In a post shared via his Twitter handle on Friday, he wrote, “On this day thirteen years ago,...

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission on Friday said that 128 female and two male evacuees have departed Port Sudan and are expected to arrive in Abuja around 2:30 pm to 3 pm. The commission made this known in a post shared on their Twitter page. Sharing pictures and a video,...

*Warns Nigerians, especially politicians planning to disrupts inauguration to shelve plans *Insists that they have not seen any reason why Bola Tinubu’s inauguration would not hold *Assures that military will not relent in ensuring peace, stability across length, breath of Nigeria By Augustine Aminu Barely three weeks to the inauguration...

The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has been repositioned to tackle unrest and unemployment in the Niger Delta by empowering youths in the area with requisite skills. Interim Administrator of the Programme, Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd), disclosed this during a courtesy call to the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in Lagos...

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, on Friday, urged the Justices of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) to be guided by integrity, truth and fear of God in the discharge of their crucial national assignment. Frank in a statement in Abuja...

The Bishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has spoken about the connection between religion and governance in a country. Speaking in an interview on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ on Thursday, Onaiyekan said that those involved in rigging the outcome of the last elections know themselves, urging...

By Augustine Aminu Minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola says an ad hoc committee of the senate investigating a N6 trillion unpaid ground rent should direct its enquiries to the office or the secretary to the government of the federation (OSGF). The upper legislative chamber had set up the...

By Augustine Aminu Minister of state for labour and employment, Festus Keyamo says Bola Tinubu, president-elect, will be sworn into office to avoid a vacuum in the government. Keyamo spoke in reaction to comments credited to John Onaiyekan, former Catholic archbishop of Abuja, who said “it doesn’t make much sense”...

*Says rate of unqualified teachers nationwide alarming  *teachers use out-dated equipments for illustration By Augustine Aminu The Registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria,TRCN, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye has declared that unqualified persons in the teaching profession are not teachers, but cheaters, adding that they don’t only cheat the pupils/students but the...