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The award-winning cultural curator, Chief Mrs. Nike Okundaye has encouraged Nigerian youths to enhance their cultural crafts and skills with their various level of education. This statement was made at the Women’s Day edition of Yoruba Lakotun, the cultural renaissance show, which took place at Freedom Park in Lagos recently. …

There was panic on Monday afternoon as fire broke out at the arrival section of the Sam Mbakwe international cargo airport in Owerri, Imo State.. The cause of the fire was not known as at the time of filling this report but a source at the Airport said that there …

A new plot has been hatched aimed at tarnishing the image of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Prof. Charles Dokubo. The plot, which is already in its advanced stage, is orchestrated by individuals who have failed in their bids to force …

Femi Adesina President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Abuja regretted the recent killing of a young man, Kolade Johnson, by Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) operatives from the Lagos State Police Command, saying the federal government would not condone the brutalisation of Nigerians or violation of their rights. The president also threatened …

  SECOND Republic Senator Hassan Adisa Fashinro is dead. He passed on at exactly 8.29pm yesterday after a brief illness. He was 99. Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode was saddened by the death of one of the founding fathers of the state. Popularly called HAB, Pa Fashinro was the first …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  yesterday said it has not raised  teams to probe or interrogate some of the outgoing governors. It said it does not go after anybody, including ex-governors on speculative ground. The EFCC, which made the clarifications in a statement by its Acting Head of …

A leading Northern politician, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, has said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo could be the next President of Nigeria. In a special interview from Kano Thursday, Yakassai told The Interview that, “there may be an unwritten understanding that when President Muhammadu Buhari finishes, the Vice President will likely …

THE three tiers of government – federal, states and 774 council areas —yesterday shared N619.857 billion as Federal Allocation for  February. A communiqué issued by the Technical  Sub -Committee of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) at the end of its February meeting, indicated that the gross statutory revenue received …

Speaker Yakubu Dogara has chided the Executive led by President Muhammadu Buhari for constantly blaming the Legislature for delays in the passage of the country’s annual budgets. In his opening address at the national budget hearing organised jointly by the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of …

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismisses a suit challenging the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conclude, collate, and announce the governorship election results from Tafawa Balewa Local Government in Bauchi State. In his ruling on Monday, the presiding judge Justice Inyang Ekwo dismissed …