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An Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, Abdulrazak Umaru Ruma died on Monday after slumping during a paper presentation at a Stakeholders Consultative Forum organised by the Federal Ministry of Police Affairs. Despite arriving at the programme as stand-in for the Niger State Comptroller of Immigration looking hale and hearty, Ruma slumped, causing a rumpus at the […]

It was a bad day for traders at and office owners at the Balogun Market on the Lagos Island on Monday, as fire engulfed the Great Nigeria House located on Martins Street, Lagos Island. The cause of the fire is yet to be known but it was learnt that it began from the first floor […]

The claim last Friday, by former military ruler and APC chieftain, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, that the seven discontented PDP governors, (G-7) have agreed to join the APC with their supporters, was obviously borne out of irrational exuberance. Buhari’s declaration is inconsistent with statements by the G-7 governors, who insist they are still PDP members. This, […]

Three days into its commencement, the Pan African conglomerate, the Dangote Group has stamped its presence in a big way at the on-going Lagos International Trade Fair as the subsidiaries from the stable of the of the group dominated activities at the trade exhibition. To savor the various offerings announced by the company, prior to […]

Executive Secretary of the Anti-Corruption Network (ACN), Mr. Dino Melaye has been arrested by security operatives, less than two weeks after leading a demonstration at Eagle Square, Abuja, against the purchase of two bulletproof cars by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) for Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah at the cost of N225m. The […]

The frenzy of opinions, allegations and counter allegations on the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)’s ill-advised purchase of two armoured vehicles has been sustained in the media lately.  The unfolding revelations may have foreshadowed erstwhile favourable public perception of the otherwise optically credible reconstruction and refurbishment of several airport terminals nationwide.  Furthermore, the technical capacity […]

The Transmission Company of Nigeria late Sunday announced a further dip in the nation’s power generation capacity, saying power will drop by 400 megawatts beginning from Monday through Saturday. The company said as a result, the country would witness a six-day power rotation, but explained that the drop in power generation is because of maintenance work on one of Shell […]Read More

Speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly, Haruna Tsokwa, is dead.Though details of the incident were sketchy at the time of this report, sources say Tsokwa died few minutes ago after a brief illness. The late speaker, a core loyalist of Deputy Governor of the state, Garba Umar, is believed to have been poisoned, […]

nPDP has condemned in strong terms, a second attempt by the police to disrupt its G7 caucus meeting which took place on the eve of 3rd November, 2013, at the Kano State Governor’s Lodge in Asokoro, Abuja, where the faction had assembled to review progress reports, accept the reports of committees and take important decisions […]

The Foursquare Gospel Church has dismissed popular Nigerian singer, Chidimma Ekile from its choir, saying the musician is no longer clean enough to sing for the church. Since winning the third edition of the MTN Project Fame, Chidinma has gone into classic hip hop songs, releasing award-winning albums to the embarrassment of the church where […]

The recent scandal involving the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and a private entity named NYSC Foundation has effectively confirmed that Nigeria’s biggest challenge is, perhaps, not corruption but barefaced impunity. According to a report in THISDAY newspapers of Sunday, October 20, 2013, the Foundation has since 2007 been making compulsory deductions […]

Airlines in Nigeria on Sunday announced that they may be forced to ground flights later this week if nothing is done by the Federal Government to sanitise the aviation sector that has been enmeshed in corruption, especially the one that involves embattled Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah. The airlines also said they have decided to […]