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 […]

The Nigerian government has said the cost of its new federal marriage certificate is N21,000 while licensing of place of worship is N30,000. The director, Citizenship and Business, Federal Ministry of Interior, Steve Okon, disclosed this to PREMIUM TIMES in Abuja on Monday. Mr Okon explained that places of worship will be licensed individually, not as a group. “If […]

The indictment came against the backdrop of the much-talked-about fight against corruption being waged by the Federal Government. Some of the cases of irregularity included improper records of transactions, unsubstantiated claims and outright non-report. For instance, an estimated N500 billion was submitted to the National Assembly. But the money, according to the 2016 report by […]

An early morning fire has engulfed Katangowa Market in Agbado/Okeodo Local Council Development Area, along the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway on Monday. The fire outbreak which started around 3.15am destroyed the entire stretch of fairly used clothes’ shops opposite the Central Mosque in the market. As of the time of filing this report, men of the state […]

The commission disclosed that they would be arraigned before Justice Taiwo Taiwo on 25 counts for receiving the money fraudulently from the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.). According to a statement in Abuja on Sunday by the acting EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, Oshodin and her firm allegedly received $57.3m and N2.3bn from […]

His globe trotting vacation has taken him from the Mediterranean vistas of the French Riviera to Ghana’s cape coast. Steve Harvey was brought to tears on Saturday during a visit to a castle that housed the horrors of the slave trade centuries ago. The 62-year-old Family Feud host was joined by his family at the […]