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The Cable has revealed sordid details about underground pimping businesses, involving students of the Federal Government Girls College, Langtang, where strangers can pay as little as N5,000 to sleep with them, with the connivance of the security guard READ MORE HERE

Tracka.ng, an NGO established to track government spending in the country, has released images of a block of classroom reportedly build for N74.8m in Kaduna State

EFCC officials have traced about £6m pension funds to a United Kingdom bank account being managed by the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation(OHCSF), The Nation learnt yesterday. Two former Heads of the Civil Service of the Federation(Engr. E. Okeke and Prof. O. A...

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Ekiti branch, have lamented the six months’ unpaid salaries owed their colleagues working in government hospitals. They revealed that the situation was causing them untold hardship READ MORE HERE

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has made more revelations of alleged massive corruption that existed under Goodluck Jonathan's government, resulting in the economic crunch President Buhari's administration is experiencing READ MORE HERE

A policeman identified as Corporal David Napoleon has shot a teenager, Tomizibe Johnson, to death in Bayelsa State. The incident reportedly occurred at 10pm on Thursday at Kpansia area of Yenagoa metropolis. Napoleon, attached to the Department of Operations at the state Police Command, was...

The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said that it was impossible for anyone to Islamise Nigeria, as claimed by Christian interests. Osinbajo, who was speaking in Lagos on Friday during the Greater Nigeria Pastors Conference convened by Apostle Wale Adefarasin and Rev. Abayomi Kasali...

Comptroller General of Nigeria Custom Service, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali has said that the Buhari government has not been able to move forward and fulfill its campaign promises because 50 percent of those in his cabinet are from the PDP who never believed in the President’s vision READ MORE HERE

One of the armed robbers that attacked the Skye Bank branch at Ifon in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo state has been arrested The bandit was caught and handed over to detectives at a local village known as Uzebba in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo state on Friday afternoon...

There was a mild drama at the Ibara Prisons, Abeokuta, on Wednesday, when a middle-aged woman, Fatima Balogun, was arrested by the operatives of the Nigerian Prisons for hiding a mobile phone wrapped in a cellophane inside a soup prepared for her boyfriend who was remanded in the Prison...

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State and the Nigerian Police Force were on Friday ordered to pay a N40m compensation to the President of Chocolate City Group, Audu Maikori over his unlawful arrest and detention between February 17 and 18 2017 and March 10, and 13, 2017. Justice John Tsoho of...

Catalonia declared independence from Spain on Friday, with Spain's central government kicking and ready to impose direct rule. Cheers erupted inside and outside the ornate Catalan parliament building after the vote result was read — a nearly unbroken series of “Si, si, si.” The final tally was...

Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun; sports minister Solomon Dalung; and Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed top the list of the Federal Government’s delegation to Wales to cheer on Anthony Joshua against Cameroonian Carlos Takam in their heavyweight fight at the Principality...

A former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday said Nigeria was almost achieving self sufficiency in rice production in 1979 before he quit as the military Head of state, saying, the regime of the Second Republic president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, which succeeded him scuttled the...

An APC Chieftain and a former Commissioner of Educationin Kaduna State, Tom Maiyashu, has described as funny a recent report that President Buhari has endorsed Gov Nasir El-Rufai for second term.. SEE MORE HERE

A Justice of the State High Court in Kwara, Justice Sikiru Oyinoloye, has removed himself from a contempt application filed by Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, against online publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and his company, Sahara Reporters. READ MORE HERE

Former PDP Chieftain, Olisah Metuh has sent an appeal to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to help clear his name in the ongoing money laundering case leveled against him by the Federal Government READ MORE HERE

Saudi Arabia has made history after granting citizenship to a humanoid robot named Sophia. This is the first time a robot will be accorded this special privilege Sophia, took to the stage at a conference in Riyadh this week to express her delight at being given citizenship, which she described...

The Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS) have raised alarm at the large number of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) members already in the prisons in its Zone E area, stretching the logistics and bare resources READ MORE HERE

Deadly armed robbers on Thursday, attacked a Skye Bank branch in Ifon, Ondo State killing 3 policemen attached to the bank The robbery operation occurred shortly before 4pm when the bank was winding up the business of the day. READ MORE HERE