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The Lagos State Government on Tuesday said it would no longer allow social functions and parties in public schools just as owners of private schools across the state have been warned to comply with rules and regulations guiding their operations. The Deputy Governor of the State, Dr. Mrs Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who disclosed this while […]

Contrary to insinuations, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal on Tuesday in Abuja dispelled insinuations that President Muhammadu Buhari, was on a vengeance mission in his fight against corruption. According to him, the government’s anti-graft war is “a sincere battle against corruption and not on a vengeance mission.” Lawal stated […]

The Federal Government has said it will neither be distracted nor intimidated into abandoning or weakening the fight against corruption, which it called a war of survival for the nation. “No amount of media or other attacks will stop the fight. The pseudo-analysts and hack writers will labour in vain in their quest to stop […]

For the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the road to freedom may just be an illusion as a witness further indicted him in court on Monday. Nneka Ararume, a witness produced by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) currently trying Metuh for allegedly receiving N400 million from Sambo Dasuki, […]

Justice Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja  has convicted and sentenced an undergraduate of  Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia: Hope Olusegun Aroke, to 24 years imprisonment for his involvement in an internet scam that fetched him N25,000,000. Aroke, 25, was arraigned before Justice Okunnu on two charges bordering on obtaining […]

President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday in Abuja that poverty, injustice and the lack of job opportunities were mainly responsible for inter-communal and intra-communal conflicts in Nigeria. Speaking while receiving a delegation from the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, an organisation active in the promotion of peace in Nigeria, President Buhari said that to achieve enduring peace […]

The point needs to be made as the year 2016 hits full swing that, whatever is their motivation, there is no compelling need for lawmakers to embark on an elaborate review and amendment of the 1999 constitution, ostensibly to whittle down the powers of the President of the Federal Republic. In a country beset with […]

The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, at the weekend advocated the adoption of a collective national attitude that would make it possible to invest the over N5 trillion fund constituting the contributions of the nation’s working class into real sectors as a means of diversifying the nation’s economy and achieving […]

The Save The Nation Movement (STNM) has questioned the rationale behind the exclusion of the current Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Buratai and other top army officers in the ongoing probe of the alleged involved of some military chiefs in economic and financial crimes in the management of personnel finances and the purchase […]

The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria wishes to deny; disassociate itself from and debunk the impression being created that the Honourable Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Muhammed met with Online Publishers of Nigeria(OPAN)as widely reported in print and online media outlets in the last few days. While we recognize the right of the Ministry of […]

National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, has been granted bail by Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja. The bail was set on Friday at N300m with two sureties in like sum, amounting to a total of N600m. The embattled National Publicity Secretary of PDP had been remand in […]

If feelers coming from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  are anything to go by, the anti-graft agency may soon go after controversial businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim, chief executive officer of  owner of Global Fleet, who is also an investor in the media, over an intervention fund he got during the administration of former President […]