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  The Lagos State Police Command has suspended Operation Velvet for one month. The period of grace was announced by the spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, Chike Oti. According to Oti, the one month grace was for motorists to regularise their vehicle documents. In a statement on Tuesday, …

World football governing body Fifa has banned former Ghana FA President, Kwesi Nyantakyi for life for breaking corruption and bribery rules. According to Fifa, Nyantakyi is banned from taking part in all football-related activities and the ban takes effect immediately. The life ban follows extensive investigations by Fifa’s Adjudicatory Chamber …

  …dismisses news of starving troops as fake John Alechenu, Abuja The Federal Government has insisted that Nigerian troops have succeeded in decimating the capacity of the Boko Haram terrorist group to carry out spectacular attacks. This, the Federal Government said, was without prejudice to the fact that the group …

  Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday congratulated Mr Jair Bolsonaro on his victory in Brazil’s presidential election run-off on Sunday. In a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President also felicitated with the people of Brazil for successfully going through …

Alex Enumah in Abuja The Ukrainian Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Valerii Alesandruk, has said Nigeria has the potential to become a hub for Africa in the area of space development, if she is determined to launch further into space. While admitting that Nigeria is not just only a big country …

  Ugo Aliogo The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday sustained its intervention in the foreign exchange (forex) market as authorised dealers in the wholesale segment received the sum of $100 million to meet the requests of their customers. The CBN also allocated the sum of $55million each to the …

• Police arrest 400 Olawale Ajimotokan and Alex Enumah in Abuja A police vehicle was burned while scores of people were injured yesterday in Wuse 2, Abuja, during the violent protest by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shiites. The police in a statement last …

Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Governor Abdul’Aziz Yari (Zamfara State), addressing a press conference in Abuja on June 28, 2018. The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has agreed to pay the sum of N22, 500 as new minimum wage for workers, as against the existing N18,000. Chairman of the Forum …

Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, and other passengers narrowly escaped death on a troubled Arik Air flight from Port Harcourt to Lagos, according to eyewitnesses. The incident, related by Grend Miebaka Ibimina and Oraye St. Franklyn in a written account making the rounds among Amaechi’s allies on …

Dangote Oil Refinery Company (DORC) says the 650,000 barrels per day refinery has been designed to process a variety of light and medium grades of crude and produce extremely clean fuels that meet Euro V specification. Sulphur in petroleum fuels results in vehicle exhaust emissions that have negative impact on …