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The ICON Publications, publishers of The ICON and The ICON Online, will be rolling out the drums to mark its third anniversary in grand style on Sunday, 30th October 2016. According to the managing director of The ICON Publications, Mr. Julius Akpovire-Enyeh, some of the highlights of the event billed …

Obadina The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday presented its first witness, PW1, Umar Bello, in the trial of one Olugbenga Obadina, Chairman and Managing Director, Almond Projects Limited, who is facing an eight-count charge of fraud before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Obadina …

Tinubu Former Lagos governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has drawn a parallel between President Muhammadu Buhari’s time as a young military head of state and now that he is the president of the country. The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, pointed out that while Buhari was in a …

Today – 1st October is a day of celebration for us Nigerians. On this day, 56 years ago our people achieved the most important of all human desires – freedom and independence. We should all therefore give thanks and pray for our founding fathers without whose efforts and toil we …

Mrs. Margaret Emefiele, the wife of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), who was abducted in Ugoneki, a few miles from Benin City, Edo State, about 24 hours ago, has been released by her abductors. A family source said she and other persons taken were released in …

Justice Mojisola Ishola-Olatoregun of a Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered multinational oil companies, Total E&P Nigeria Plc, and Chevron Nigeria Limited, to defend the $245,258,640 suit filed by the Federal Government that they under-declared the volume of crude oil they shipped out of the country between January 2011 …

A Nigeria pastor, resident in South Africa, Obinna Ikenna Ezenwanne, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over an alleged illegal harassment, intimidation and confiscation of his black Range Rover (Sports Utility Vehicle) by some operatives of the Commission. This is even as the EFCC boss, Ibrahim Magu …

The head of  Sub-Sahara delegation of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Ignacio San Roman said the organisation has given  Internally Displaced  Persons (IDPs) returnees in Michika local government area  of Adamawa, numbering over 1000, N40,000 each to start business. Roman,  made this known yesterday in Yola in an …

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says results of the Edo state governorship election will be announced later on Thursday. Sam Olumekun, resident electoral commissioner of Edo, disclosed this after a closed door meeting with a national commissioner and two resident electoral commissioners. Though Olumekun did not give reasons for …

The Senate on Tuesday said there were signs that the 2019 general elections would be inconclusive without enough Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to oversee it. This followed a motion by Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and supported by the Senate Leader Ali Ndume. Ekweremadu expressed concerns that the rate of …