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A staff member of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, John Iheanacho, has lost his life to the terror of a kidnap syndicate. Despite collecting a ransom of N5m from his family, the kidnappers held the victim hostage in their camp in Afam, a …...

There is uproar in the land over the National Assembly’s massive alteration of the budget. In fact, a non-governmental organisation described the action as “criminal”. The lawmakers cut 4,700 projects amounting to N347billion from what President Muhammadu Buhari presented and introduced 6,403...

A 43-year-old Nigerian man, Remigius Duru Okonkwo was brought before Phnom Penh court, Cambodia on June 17, for defrauding a Vietnamese businesswoman of $356,000 USD. According to the victim identified as Darg Mai Nga, on January 2018, she met the suspect via social media. On January 10, the...

The Federal Government has decided to shut down the borders with a neighbouiring country through which rice is smuggled on a large scale into Nigeria. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Audu Ogbeh, who stated this, added that the action will be taken in a few days’ time. Ogbeh spoke...

The Federal Government has increased the winning bonus of super eagles by $5,000 ... read more via OluFamous.Com – https://ift.tt/2JVKeSC Get More Nigeria Sports News

A police sergeant attached to the Bridge Head Police Division, Onitsha, Anambra State, has allegedly chased a 22-year-old tricycle rider, Samuel Agu, to the path of a speeding bus, which crushed him to death. Agu’s offence, it was learnt, was his refusal to part with a N100 bribe reportedly …...

Just about a week to the national elective convention of the riling All Progressives Congress (APC), chieftains of the NewPDP bloc within the party are now putting finishing touches on their next course of action. Sources in Abuja and Ilorin revealed that leaders of the power bloc held...

The Niger State Police Command has arrested two suspected kidnappers that had been making life unbearable for the people of Sabon Mariga in the Rafi area of the state. The suspects, Mohammed Kwairi, 23, and Emmanuel Idi, 21, were arrested by police operatives attached to Kagara division. It was...

Four persons suspected to be members of a secret cult, have been arrested by the police for allegedly shooting and killing one person, identified as Arsenal-Nice in Sagamu, Ogun State. T he suspects – Olushola Adedeji; Olusegun Olalekan, aka Musket;Azeez aka Anene; and Abolore, aka A.B. – were...

The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed the trigger-happy mobile policeman who shot former House of Reps member, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele and five other party faithful last Friday. The culprit opened fire at the All Progressives Congress (APC) secretariat during the welcome rally held for the...

A man who had earlier criticized Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 general election and openly supported Muhammadu Buhari to be president, has begged him (GEJ) for forgiveness after realizing his mistake. He took to social media to reveal how he paid Jonathan a visit and begged him for...

Age didn’t hold Ella Washington back. When she celebrates her 90th birthday soon, she’ll be doing so as a graduate in the US. Few college graduates have experienced all that Ella Washington has experienced. At 89 years old, she’s lived through the Great Depression, World War II and the …...

All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders are to meet today with leaders of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) over their grievances. A group of APC members led by one-time Acting PDP National Chairman Kawu Baraje, claiming marginalisation of its members by the APC-led Federal...

All Progressives Congress (APC) Imo State stakeholders have said that they have made Gov. Rochas Okorocha politically irrelevant in their determination to rescue the party from imminent collapse in the state. Dr Theo Ekechi, who spoke to newsmen after a close-door meeting with the APC national...

Another group of ex-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders, who joined the coalition that formed the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014, yesterday slammed those who claimed that the group was marginalised. Last week, a one-time acting chairman of PDP, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, led a group to...

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has called on Dr. Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress not to rejoice yet over his victory at the APC primary, saying that will be the closest he will get in the Ekiti gubernatorial race. Tweeting via his handle, the governor wrote: “I thank …...

Imo State governor and chairman of the All Progressives Congress Governor’s Forum, Rochas Okorocha, has said his party has derailed and now practises “Peoples Democratic Party kind of politics. Read more via OluFamous.Com – https://ift.tt/2KT6q0H -- Get More Nigeria Political News

The much talked about Second Niger Bridge is almost half completed, Federal Controller of Works in Anambra State Innocent Alumonah has said. The bridge links the West and East stretching from Asaba in Delta State to Onitsha in Anambra State. Alumonah said the contracting firm, Julius Berger...

The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of five serving policemen over the alleged robbery attempt on one Mr Immanuel James, at Ago-Palace way, Okota, a Lagos suburb. The suspects — two Inspectors and three Sergeants –were identified to be operatives attached to Special Anti-...

*President ‘yet to make any deal’ All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders have launched a peace move to change the frosty relationship between the Executive and the National Assembly. Lawmakers are threatening to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto on the Electoral Act amendment...