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Christian Obodo, a former Super Eagles player, was kidnapped on Sunday evening in Delta State by unidentified gunmen, who also promptly freed him.   Obodo was kidnapped along Refinery road in Effurun, Uvwie council area around 5 pm.   Confirming his release, Monday morning, a friend of the football star, Engr. Big Sam, said:   […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate reinstatement of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogindipe as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos.      He also ordered the immediate dissolution of the Governing Council of the tvarsity, headed by Dr Wale Babalakin.     The orders followed Buhari’s  acceptance of the report of the Special Visitation Panel […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State behind closed doors where he received pictorial reports on properties damaged by hoodlums during #EndSARS protests in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Sunday Aghaeze, the Personal Assistant to the President (Photography), confirmed this via pictorial reports […]

The National Examinations Council  has released the 2020 National Common Entrance Examination results, with the national cut off mark put at 142.   The Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Professor Godswill Obioma, while presenting the results to the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, Monday, in Abuja, said a total of 70,580 candidates sat […]

Nigerian billionaire Benedict Peters has made plans to develop a platinum mine in Zimbabwe with at least a billion dollars, according to Bloomberg News.   The Platinium mine is located in Selous, the south of Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital. It is also close to present platinum mines, and comprises a 3,000 hectare (7,413-acre) concession.   The […]

Sixty prominent Nigerians and organisations, including the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, and frontline businessman, Emeka Offor, on Saturday lost their privilege of personal police security.   The police personnel attached to them were ordered withdrawn by Police Inspector General Mohammed Adamu forthwith. […]

As calls for restricting get louder in Nigeria, Wole Olanipekun, a prominent lawyer, has declared that what the country needs is a only a brand new constitution that can address the multitude of challenges facing the nation.   The lawyer said that the 1999 constitution is unable to address  Nigeria’s peculiarities, explaining that what the […]

Contrary to reports by Bloomberg that Dangote Cement was granted sole approval to export cement through the land borders, information has emerged that other companies also got approval to export through the land borders.   Nigerian Customs Service has reportedly revealed that BUA Group and a gas company have also received presidential approval to move […]

Efforts by Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of becoming the first African and the first woman to head the World Trade Organization (WTO) has hit a spanner after the global trade agency said the process of choosing the next head of the organization has been postponed sine die. The Geneva-based trade watchdog has […]

The Federal Government has concluded arrangements to sell Geregu, Omotosho and Calabar power plants for N434 billion next year, according to plans by the Bureau of Public Enterprises.   The government has also concluded plans to concession the National Stadium, Lagos, Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja, Jos International Stadium and Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Port Harcourt, […]

  …accuses account owners of terrorism   The Central Bank of Nigeria was able to secure authority to freeze the accounts of #EndSARS campaigners by accusing them of engaging in acts of terrorism.   With that, the Federal Government was able to freeze the accounts of 20 #EndSARS campaigners after it told a Federal High […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday appealed to Nigerians yet to feel the impacts of his Administration and those who feel the government is not doing enough to bear with the government. The President made the appeal in Ilorin at a town hall meeting with the traditional rulers, youths, students, organised labour, market women and other […]