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The leader of the North West caucus in the House of Representatives, Hon. Alhassan Ado Doguwa has said former President Olusegun Obasanjo lacks the moral credibility to advice President Muhammadu Buhari against seeking re-election in 2019. Doguwa, who is the chief whip of the House, while...

One person lost his live while three others were hospitalised following a motor accident that occurred yesterday at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra State. Driver of a trailer, according to witnesses, lost control while descending from the Borromeow roundabout towards bride head and crashed. It...

Kebbi, Anambra, Abia paid highest for petrol in December –NBS The sale of petrol, known as Premium Motor Spirit ( PMS) rose to 17.98 per cent last December amidst its acute scarcity , PMS Price watch of National Bureau of Statistics ( NBS) confirmed yesterday. NBS in its report, listed Abia …...

At least 60 passengers and motorists yesterday escaped death in an accident which occurred on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The accident involved a trailer belonging to Dangote Group, a pick up van belonging to the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), four cars and three buses. Four persons...

Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, in this interview with BIODUN OYELEYE exposes some of the strange cultures he has had to deal with since assuming office. How has it been at JAMB? At the level of JAMB, it has … via Newtelegraph –...

JUST IN: Kidnappers abduct Sharia judge in Niger …demand N50million Men of the underworld numbering about twenty, have invaded Jermiya village in Rafi local government area of Niger state and abducted a Sharia court judge, Abubakar Jibrin. His kidnap is coming barely three days after seven...

The United States (US) Government has concluded arrangements to sell 12 A29 Super Tucano Aircraft to Nigeria. Consequently, the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Stuart Symington, yesterday presented Letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) to the Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar...

These are not the best of times for Mrs. Mary Okolie, the 85-year-old mother of the Commissioner for Local Government and Rural Development in Imo State, Chief Gerry Okolie. This owes largely to the dehumanizing conditions she had allegedly been subjected to by her eldest son, Chief Okolie...

Detectives attached to the Inspector- General of Police, Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested six suspected kidnappers and rescued their 76-year-old hypertensive victim, Benjamin Okoye, in Abia State. However, the victim, who was rescued on December 12 after the IRT men smashed...

The proscribe Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, have taken Nigeria to African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, the Gambian capital, to challenge its proscription. In a suit filed on December 5 and made available to newsmen, IPOB’S attorney...

The price of kerosene, known as Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK) has hit an all-time high price of N600 per litre, worsening the pains of over 30 million households who depend on the product for cooking, New telegraph reports. In its place, millions of poor Nigerians who use it for their stoves...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered probe into the circumstances surrounding the parley meeting of Sports minister, Mr. Solomon Dalung and the Niger Delta Avengers. A presidential aide told NewTelegraph that the president has asked the minister to provides an answer as to whether or not he...

Police have arrested a self acclaimed Anglican cleric, Paul Morah, for allegedly defiling over 24 male children between 12 and 16 years at Enyibichiri community in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Morah, who hails from Orji River in Enugu State but came to Ebonyi for pastoral...