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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sealed the production lines of Emzor Pharmaceuticals Industry in Lagos and two Ilorin-based companies, the Peace Standard Pharmaceutical ltd., and BIORAJ Pharmaceutical ltd., as it continues to probe the codeine-based...

Arising from an emergency meeting in Abuja on Monday, All Progressive Congress’ (APC) leaders in Imo State said they had credible information that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was putting pressure on APC national leadership to tamper with the outcome of the party’s ward congress on Saturday...

Stern looking policemen and men of the Department of State Security, numbering 1,000 have taken over Oluyemi Kayode stadium in Ado Ekiti. Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2FNu0YG -- Get More Nigeria Political News

The Nigeria Police have perfected plans to move the embattled senator representing Kogi West senatorial district, Dino Melaye, to Lokoja to face trial for an alleged illegal firearms possession and arming of political thugs. READ MORE HERE

A former Federal Commissioner for the Ministry of Economic Development and Reconstruction, as well as ex-Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Professor Adebayo Adedeji, has died. Read more via...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cautioned Nigeria and other oil exporting countries yet to utilise the opportunity created by the prolonged stability in crude oil prices to reform their economies, saying they would not be so lucky if crude prices plunge again. The Economic Counsellor...

The abducted twins of the Otun-Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, have been released, seven days after they were kidnapped. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the twins, abducted seven days ago, were released in Lagos on Monday afternoon by the abductors after collecting a...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has set May 14 as the date for its elective convention. THISDAY gathered from party sources that the decision on the convention was reached after a meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party held yesterday afternoon. Read more via...

The plan by the federal government to close the Ijora-Apapa Bridge in Lagos for “permanent repairs” will cost the country over N200 billion, if the bridge is blocked for two months. The government makes between N1.2 trillion and N1.3 trillion annually from the ports through the Nigeria Customs...

A Liberal Democrat and former British Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has called on the UK Home Office and National Crime Agency to explain themselves over the revelation that the country’s anti-money laundering agency allowed JP Morgan to transfer $875 million to a former Nigerian oil...

Market leader Toyota has passed 50,000 new-vehicle sales in 2018 on the back of three consecutive monthly sales records for HiLux and also for the company’s sports-utility vehicles (SUVs). Toyota’s first-quarter sales total has exceeded 52,400 vehicles – the best result for the company and its...

Indigenous car buying service, Cars45 has struck a partnership deal with Turing Simcubator and Carsbazr, to launch a refurbishment centre and retail point in Lagos. Simcubator is one of Nigeria’s largest mult-brand automobile workshop while Carsbazr is Nigeria’s largest locally used-car sales...

Two women died on Tuesday following a fatal accident involving the convoy of the wife of Abia State Governor, Mrs. Nkechi Ikpeazu. Several others sustained various degrees in of injuries with some in critical condition. The victims are Mrs. Nwamaka Maduabuchukwu, a Senior Special Assistant...

The government of Switzerland has blocked several bank accounts in the country linked to the planned bribery trial of Eni and Shell executives in Milan, Italy, as it relates to the infamous Malabu oil scam. On Monday, the office of the Swiss Attorney-General confirmed that at the request of...

Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has denied the video and news report alleging that there was a raid in his residence and that loot was discovered by the raiders who are members of the Nigerian police. Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2Iqrjy2 -- Get More Nigeria...

The remains of the 11 soldiers killed by bandits in Kompanin Doka village in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State were laid to rest thursday in Kaduna with full military honours. The state government also donated N500,000 to each family of the deceased soldiers during their burial...

The whistle-blower at the heart of the Facebook data scandal engineered by embattled data analysis firm, Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie, has named the Israeli firm that hacked into President Muhammadu Buhari’s private medical and financial records via his emails, in a bid to scare voters...

In a posthumous book titled, “M.T. Mbu: Dignity in Service,” slated for public presentation in Abuja on April 10, the late Ambassador M. T. Mbu has alleged that former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ceding of the Bakassi Peninsular to Cameroon was not done in the public interest, but for personal...

The Minister of Transportation, Hon Chibuike Amaechi, in a surprising move yesterday took the campaign for President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term to Anambra State, urging Igbo people to vote for him (Buhari) for a second term as a way of giving him the chance to serve out the term of the...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s media assistant, Mr. Reno Omokri, on Tuesday asked the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to call Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo to order for accusing Jonathan of sharing N150 billion two weeks to the 2015...