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  Former Presidential Candidate, Mr Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, during an exclusive interview with Tribune Newspaper explained how he escaped multiple assasination attempt in 2007 after he challenged the Kwara Governorship election in court and how he was eventually driven into exile. *So eventually you were driven into exile?* Yes. Look,let me …

The United States government through the FBI recently helped to run a training exercise whose goal is to enhance the capacity of Nigerian cryptocurrency crime investigators, the U.S. Mission Nigeria (USMN) has said. The exercise saw over 50 Nigerian investigators and prosecutors participate. In its August 25 tweet, the USMN …

Prince Uche Secondus, former Na­tional Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may not return to his position following the ratification of Elder Yemi Akinwon­mi’s assumption of office as the act­ing national chairman of the party, Daily Independent has gathered. Justice O. Gbasam of the Rivers State High Court sitting …

The Federal Government has implemented a 7.5 per cent tax on imported Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly called cooking gas, as the cost of the commodity leap by over 100 per cent within a period of eight months. It was gathered on Sunday that the government implemented the VAT on LPG …

The Federal Government, on Sunday, expressed concern about the 21-day strike notice issued by the Nigerian Medical Association over the alleged failure of government to meet the demands of the striking resident doctors. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, while responding to an inquiry by one of our correspondents on …

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities has expressed its readiness to embark on another round of industrial action following what it called the failure of the Federal Government to implement an agreement signed with the union. The union is giving the government till month end (Tuesday) to reach out or …

  BLAST HORROR : A CHILD has been killed after Kabul was rocked by an explosion just hours after the UK’s final flight left Afghanistan. The blast erupted when a rocket hit a residential neighbourhood near the airport where desperate people are trying to flee the Taliban. An Afghan police chief …

The Federal Government has postponed the Nigeria at 60 Jubilee Special Award ceremony, scheduled earlier to hold on Sept. 3. The Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment, Adeniyi Adebayo, made this known in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Ifedayo Sayo, on Sunday in Abuja. Adebayo said that …

[PICTORIAL] Nightmare: Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene inter-state road in Ikwano LGA of Abia State Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene inter-state road at Ikwano Local Government Area of Abia State, on Sunday.  Newsextra24 The News Agency of Nigeria has shared photographs of the deplorable condition of Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene inter-state road in Ikwano Local Government Area of …