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  Premium Times Services Ltd , owners and publishers of Premium Times online publication, said that statements by the Nigeria Police on the arrest of Mr Samuel Ogundipe were misleading and prejudicial. Newsmen report that the the spokesman of police, DCP Jimoh Moshood, said in a statement that Ogundipe was …

By John Paul Recently, I embarked on a journey to Ugbamaka lgah, the ancestral home of senator Attai Aidoko representing Kogi East in the senate. Whirling the community without a glance on potential pay-off for producing a Senator of the Federal republic, I resorted for interrogation and a retired police …

  ENUGU State Board of Internal Revenue after obtaining court orders, yesterday, carried out a distrainment exercise on four banks and two other private firms, located in Enugu metropolis and Nsukka, for non-payment of taxes due to the state government, totalling over N200 million. The affected companies, according to the …

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo for his intervention in the blockade of the National Assembly complex. Tinubu gave the commendation while addressing party members at the state secretariat of the party on Tuesday. He said the response of Osinbajo in …

Soldiers of the Special Strike Force deployed in Operation Lafiya Dole have protested against their posting to Marte, a Local Government Area in the Northern part of Borno State, Channels Television is reporting. The soldiers are part of those deployed in the fight against dreaded sect, Boko Haram. According to …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has slammed the Presidency for linking some of its actions, especially the freezing of the account of the Benue State Government, to scripts written by the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki. In a statement on Sunday, the EFCC said its actions …

The dream of Senator James Manager, the four-tenure senator representing Delta South Senatorial District of Delta State at the Senate to launch a return for the fifth time has suffered some setbacks as youths in the district have vowed to scuttle his moves to that effect.   Delta South Youth …

Youths in Kogi East Senatorial District have rejected the re-election of Senator Attai Aidoko as the 2019 General Elections approach. They condemned the social media propagandists, who they said spin lies and launder the image of Aidoko for political make over for 2019. “Their propaganda reflects a depressed and despondent, …

A civil society organisation, Coalition Against Corruption and Bad Governance (CACOBAG), has dragged the former Director General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Lawal Daura, before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over two foreign bank accounts allegedly linked to the spy master sacked last week by Acting …

As the 2019 general election draws nearer, a group of political strategists working for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari is worried by the lingering crisis within the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-east geo-political zone of the country. In a strategic paper recently prepared for …