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The Federal Government says the call, in some quarters, for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over the recent killing of farmers in Borno State by Boko Haram terrorists is “cheap and irresponsible’’. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, during a meeting with members of the Newspaper...

  The Senate on Thursday summoned the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire and the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-l9, Boss Mustapha, to brief its Committees on Health and Primary Healthcare on modalities the Federal Government would adopt to procure and administer COVID-19 vaccines on Nigerians. Also,...

  The Federal Government has declared Jan. 1, 2021 to Dec. 31, 2030 as “The Decade of Gas Development for Nigeria”. Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, made the declaration on Thursday at the Seventh (Virtual) Joint International Energy Forum and International Gas Union (IEF-IGU) Ministerial Gas...

  Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday December 3, 2020, for the second time, adjourned ruling on the propriety or otherwise of the order for the freezing of accounts, belonging to the fourth, fifth and sixth defendants in the trial of former Head of Service...

  Players in the Nigerian equities market appear to be riding the waves of the market rally with investors gaining ₦55.2bn on Tuesday, 01 December 2020. This saw market capitalisation rise to ₦18.4tn while Year-to-Date (YTD) return improved to 30.9 per cent, making the Nigerian equities market the 2nd and...

  Oyo State Governor, Engr Seyi Makinde (third left); his wife, Tamunominini (third right); Bayelsa State Governor, Duoye Diri (second left); Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Daud Akinola (second right) and others, during the lying-in-state of Makinde's mother, Madam Abigail Makinde, at Governor Makinde's residence, Agodi GRA, Ibadan....

  Justice Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has remanded one Vincent Harrison Chukwuemeka, an alleged serial Facebook hacker, in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service following his arraignment on one count charge of fraud to the tune of N407, 000 fraud....

  Justice A.M. Liman of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of N235, 451, 969.89 (Two Hundred and Thirty-five Million, Four Hundred and Fifty-one Thousand, Nine Hundred and Sixty-nine Naira, Eighty-nine Kobo) traced to the account of a convicted fraudster,...

  The Benin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of Azeez Oriire Paul ( a.k.a Quineeth Chynaberry Laty) an  internet fraudster on a one count charge bordering on intent to defraud before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Warri, Delta...

  Although Nigeria has been known globally as one of the leading producers of crude oil, the reputation of the country in the near future will be based on the imagination and creativity of Nigerians, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Prof. Osinbajo stated this in a virtual message...