Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday said that investors willing to do business in the agric sector in the State can be rest assured of a ready market and returns on investment as the daily consumption of food items in the State is worth over N3billion daily. The …

The Enugu State Police Command on Thursday said it had arrested two suspected fraudsters for faking the Face book account of the State Deputy Governor, Cecilia Ezeilo. The suspects are: Richard Onyema, 36, and Richard Amadi, 40. The Spokesperson for the command, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, who briefed newsmen on the …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday promised that Nigeria would team up with other countries to strengthen maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President spoke while receiving the Executive Secretary of the Gulf of …

The Senate on Thursday rejected the report by the Committee on Finance in which the N143.7bn budget of the Federal Inland Revenue Service was approved. The lawmakers, while debating the recommendation of the committee during the day’s plenary, criticised the report as lacking details.  While some senators who spoke on the report said …

  An Egor Magistrates’ Court in Benin on Thursday remanded Dickson Uwadinusu, 30, in prison for allegedly threatening to kill his parents. The Magistrate, Mrs E.E. Edokpayi, who frowned at the accused person’s act, vowed not to grant him bail. Edokpayi said that if the accused person was granted bail, …

THE Bursar and a driver of Government College, Ughelli, GCU, have been arrested and detained at the Ughelli “A” Division police station in connection with an alleged disappearance of N3million belonging to the school. “The Bursar, Sando Richard and Driver, Aaron Isokari, were both arrested following investigations surrounding the incident,” …

A soldier, Musa Lawal, attached to the 13th Brigade of the Nigerian Army was on Thursday kidnapped by unknown gunmen along the busy Calabar Road in Calabar, Cross River State. Lawal had just stepped out of the bank when the gunmen bundled him into a waiting vehicle and whisked him …

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted bail to a former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani- Kayode, in the sum of N50m after he was arraigned on five counts of N26m fraud. Fani-Kayode, a Director of Media and Publicity in the campaign organisation of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, …

Following much backlash from Nigerians over the prophesy by influential Nigerian TV evangelist, TB Joshua that Hillary Clinton would win the US presidential election which later turned out otherwise, Pastor Joshua has reinstated the post on his Facebook page after deleting it yesterday when the backlash became too hot. The …

As the pro-national sovereignty movement continues to surge in Europe following the historic British “Brexit” vote to exit the European Union, a growing push for a United States “Amexit” from the United Nations and other international institutions is gaining steam.     After the Brexit, Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (shown being …