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The Federal Government on Thursday announced a lifeline to financially distressed Arik Airlines to continue to keep it as a going concern in the aviation industry. The management of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, said the decision to intervene clearly underscores the government’s commitment to instill sanity in the country’s aviation sector to […]

President Muhammadu Buhari, may return to Nigeria from his vacation to the United Kingdom on Saturday, if everything goes according to plan. Leadership newspaper came up with the report saying it relied on the information from a senior official in the presidency on Thursday. “Barring any last minute change, we are expecting the president back […]

The senate has called on the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi to immediately withdraw a comment credited to him in which he said that the senate was delaying infrastructure development. Aliyu Sabi, spokesman of the senate, said this on Wednesday in a statement signed by him. Sabi emphasised that the senate was not delaying any construction and that the […]Read More

Russian authorities have said seven of their sailors and one Ukrainian have been abducted on Nigeria’s territorial waters.  Hence the Russian embassy in Nigeria has asked the Nigerian authorities for assistance in locating the abducted sailors. “The BBC Caribbean ship came under a piratic attack in the territorial waters of Nigeria,” the embassy said on Wednesday […]

A lawyer, Mr Babatunde Olokun, has slammed a N10 million suit on Sen. Buruji Kashamu (PDP-Ogun). Olokun is pressing charges against Kashamu over alleged unlawful arrest, continuous threat to life, harassment and infringement on fundamental human rights. Olokun, a legal practitioner, who filed the application at the Federal High Court in Abuja, alleged that the […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dele Belgore, for alleged money laundering. The SAN was arraigned alongside a former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, before Justice R.M. Aikawa of the Federal High Court in Lagos. Sulaiman, a professor of Political Science and International […]

Personnel of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) are no longer allowed to erect checkpoints in Kaduna and other urban centres in the state, authorities in the State have said. The new directive was contained in a statement issued in Kaduna on Wednesday by Mr Samuel Aruwan, Special Assistant to Gov. Nasiru El-Rufa’i on Media […]

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) says it has seized 62 houses belonging to one female public officer. According to the commission’s chairman, Mr. Ekpo Nta, the matter is in court, and the properties will be permanently taken over by the Federal Government once litigation is concluded. This was disclosed while […]

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has appointed Dr. Hakeem Baba Ahmed, as his new Chief of Staff. In a statement by his Special Adviser (Media and  Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki said the appointment takes immediate effect. Baba Ahmed, 61, was educated at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, London School of Economics and University of […]

A female suicide bomberhas confessed that she was lured into the act with N200 and the promise of going to heaven. The confession was made by Amina, an 18-year-old girl who was intercepted by men of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Tuesday in Maiduguri. She revealed that she was abducted two years […]

A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sum of N75 million found in the bank account of Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome. The money was found in his Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) account by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), while the presiding Judge, Justice AbdulAziz Anka, […]

…Abuja Inquirer Opens Defense… …Magu, EFCC Boss, To Testify The Publisher of The Abuja Inquirer newspapers, Dan Akpovwa, has said that the libel suit instituted against the publication by Kingsley Kuku, the former Presidential Adviser on the Amnesty programme, is frivolous, and aimed at intimidating media. Mr. Akpovwa said this today (Tuesday, February 7, 2017) at the Abuja High Court […]Read More