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Some Uber drivers on Monday marched on the office of the Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Services (VIS), protesting the recent clampdown on their operations on Lagos roads. The drivers are miffed that Uber and Taxify authorities have remained indifferent in the face of the intensified harassment and disruption of their activities by Lagos VIS officials, […]

President Muhammadu Buhari was expected to arrive the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, late Friday evening, ahead of the 33rd Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), billed from February 9-10, 2020. While in Addis Ababa, the President will participate in this year’s summit held under the AU Theme of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari says the Nigerian Constitution barred him from interfering in the dispute between Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje and the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Emir of Ningi, Alhaji Yunusa Danyaya, had on Thursday pleaded with Buhari to save the traditional institution in the North […]

The Supreme Court on Friday declined a request by family members of the late military Head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, to unfreeze accounts belonging to them in foreign countries. The accounts which are in banks in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Jersey, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg were frozen in 1999 following a directive by the Nigerian […]

Less than a week after US President Donald J Trump slammed an immigrant visa ban on Nigeria, the Federal Government has slashed its visa application charges for citizens of the United States from $180 to $160. The old amount comprised $160 as visa fee and $20 as “processing and expedient fees”. According to the Comptroller-General […]

The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and the Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), Uche Orji, yesterday disclosed that the fresh $308 million forfeited assets to Nigeria would be received in April.Both men made the declaration in separate interviews monitored by www.www.aso.rocks search […]

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Zone A, has seized about 147 sacks of pangolin scales weighing 9,504.1kg worth N10.26 billion. The Pangolins or scaly anteaters are mammals of the order Pholidota, with the demand for pangolin scales and meat driving pangolins toward extinction. Pangolin scales, like rhino horn, have no proven medicinal value, yet they […]

Mixed reactions have trailed the deregistration of 74 political parties out of the 92 parties by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), with two parties; the KOWA Party and Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP) on Friday, saying they would challenge the electoral umpire’s decision in a court of law. Mark Adebayo, Acting National Chairman of […]

In this exclusive interview with David Stowell of Manchester United TV, Odion Ighalo explains what it means for him as the first Nigerian to ever play for the Red Devils; saying his dramatic deadline-day loan move to Old Trafford was a dream come true, as he looks forward to wearing the red jersey with pride. […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed September 19 and October 10 as the date for the governorship election in Edo and Ondo States respectively. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who made the announcement at a press conference on Thursday in Abuja, said the tenure of the governor of Edo would end on November […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has come under a hailstorm of criticisms after last Monday’s trilateral agreement between Nigeria, US and the Bailiwick of Jersey, wherein Nigeria bent over backwards to accept that the US will monitor the three projects on which the $308 million repatriated Abacha loot will be spent. In addition, Nigeria agreed to repay […]

A Kaduna state High Court has fixed February 24 and 25, for the continuation of trial of Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) and his wife. The presiding judge, Justice Gideon Kurada, adjourned the case on Thursday at the resumed hearing of the case, saying it was to allow the […]