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Reports just filtered in that popular Nollywood actress, Rachael Oniga, is dead, Leadership Newspaper is reporting. She was 64 year-old. The news is coming at a time the movie industry is grappling with mixed issues and after mourning the death of another entertainer, Sound Sultan, who passed on early this month. The …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has so far recovered about N5.4bn misappropriated in the National Health Insurance Scheme. The Executive Secretary of NHIS, Muhammad Nasir Sambo, disclosed this during a visit to the EFCC headquarters in Abuja, on Thursday. According to him, the amount recovered is just a part …

The Federal Government says it is not aware of any $875 million ammunition deal with the US which is being purportedly blocked by some lawmakers in that country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in …

Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams on Friday condemned the Department of State Services’ failure to present all the 12 aides of Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday. Igboho’s aides were arrested on July 1, during the nocturnal …

Usifo Ataga, the slain Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, has been buried amid eulogies and tears from family members, close associates and other sympathisers. The remains of Ataga were on Friday interred in a private ceremony at the Ebony Vaults in Ikoyi, Lagos. The service of songs and funeral rites on …

The Kaduna state government has filed fresh charges against Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) an d his wife. This is coming about two days after a high court in Kaduna freed El-Zakzaky and Zeenat, his wife. While upholding a no-case submission by El-Zakzaky and his …

Details have emerged on why the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) quizzed and detained a former Governor of Nasarawa State and serving senator, Tanko Al-Makura, and his wife, Mairo Al-Makura. Premium Times reports that a worrying pattern of suspicious structured transactions that suggest money laundering may have caused troubles for …

Wednesday’s Supreme Court judgment, which ratified the victory of Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, has thrown up a major controversy over the legitimacy of Governor Mai Mala Buni as the All Progressives Congress (APC) national caretaker chairman. The Yobe governor was appointed after the removal of elected Chairman Adams Oshiomhole …

The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation illegally withdrew N665.8 billion from Development of Natural Resources Fund and Stabilization Funds and given as loans to various government agencies, the Senate has said. The Red Chamber said the funds were withdrawn between 2004 and 2015 contrary to the established …

File copy: IMN leader, El-Zakzaky A Kaduna High Court on Wednesday discharged and acquitted leader of the proscribed Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and wife, Zeenat. Justice Gideon Kurada delivered the verdict in an eight-hour ruling on the no-case submission application filed by the defendants. Counsel to the defendants, …