Speaking during the inauguration of the Facebook Circles in Benin, Mr Izoduwa Asemota, a co-lead of the facebook developer circle, said the platform“is a community for developers to create problem-solving tech products’’. Asemota said the platform was meant to create a community of people who are passionate about technology and to produce entrepreneurs in the […]

The APC’s application had prayed for among others the dismissal of the appellants’ petition at the tribunal. This came barely 24 hours to the closing of arguments by parties to the petition scheduled to come up on Wednesday. Atiku and the PDP are by their petition before the tribunal challenging the victory of President Muhammadu […]

PREMIUM TIMES confirmed from EFCC spokesperson, Tony Orilade, that Mr Ambode is under a corruption probe, a few months after he left office. The residence of Mr Ambode in his hometown of Epe was being searched as of 9:35 a.m. when Mr Orilade confirmed the development. The residence of the former governor’s chief of staff […]

Edmond’s situation has been described as a “miracle” by his father  Humoshe Eli, who said his son who turned 24 this year is now learning to wear his shoes correctly. “He’s still learning to do this just as he makes the adjustment to walk without any support.” Edmond became blind at the age of three, […]

Already under the EFCC searchlight are Olusegun Obasanjo, Umar Musa Yar’ Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan. President Muhammadu Buhari has always asked why an administration would spent $16bn on electricity, and Nigerians will still be fumbling in darkness. And Obasanjo would readily point any inquirer to his book–“My Watch–for the answer. But the EFCC will be […]

Emmanuel said this in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja on Monday, even as the ministers-designate are expected to be assigned portfolios in the next 48 hours. He said the call became imperative “in view of very disturbing increase in reported cases of corruption and massive looting of our oil revenues by some […]

The programme organised by a group, Coalition for Revolution, was scheduled to hold on Ibijoke Street, in the Oregun area of Lagos State at 11am, but security agents stormed the venue and prevented participants from entering the place. Soyinka, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana and others were billed to speak at the symposium […]

N1.04tn Everest Amaefule The statistics also showed that the six geopolitical zones of the country were exposed to a total domestic debt of N3.97tn as of March 31. This means that the South-West geopolitical zone of the country accounts for 26.2 per cent of the country’s total subnational domestic debt. The geopolitical zone is made […]

This is just as our correspondent gathered authoritatively of how the Commanding Officer of 93 Battalion Ibi, Captain Balarabe Tijani, employed the services of a welder in the community to destroy the hand and leg cuffs on Hamisu Bala Wadume, before setting him free. The captain who is said to have been interrogated by the […]

This is coming following some media reports from the letter by Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, on which the purported rumour of an investigation is based, merely raises concerns over the negative run of the tax revenue collection in recent times. In a statement signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, the special assistant […]