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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has instructed a commercial bank not to honour Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC’s) request for payments over alleged money laundering. In a letter addressed to the Managing Director of one the bank and ...

Catholic Bishop of Bauchi, Most Reverend (Dr.) Hilary Dachelem, has identified the high level of corruption in government, lack of clear separation of powers, societal class and interests, the broken justice system, tribalism, insecurity and insurgencies as well as poverty ...

Troops of the Nigerian Army 1 Division and other security operatives, under Exercise Harbin Kunama III, have neutralised 24 bandits and arrested 64 other suspects. General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division, Maj.-Gen. Faruq Yahya, who disclosed this at a press briefing ...

Rivers State government has abolished service charges in its health facilities for persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to encourage HIV patients in the state to access treatment. Governor Nyesom Wike said the state would take over the payment ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet may not be constituted before October, especially with the threat by federal lawmakers to keep away from the National Assembly until their allowances are paid. It was learnt that two weeks after the inauguration of the ...

MERCER, a firm that produces individual cost of living and rental accommodation cost reports for cities, has ranked Lagos as the fourth most expensive city in Africa among those surveyed. Although in comparison with other cities in the world, Lagos, ...

The Yoruba Youth Vanguard has lampooned an Afenifere faction for deliberately trying to mislead Nigerians by quoting Vice President Yemi Osinbajo out of context. It said at a media briefing in Abeokuta yesterday that the Afenifere group does not represent ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s dismissal of kidnappings in the country has confirmed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration is insensitive to the sufferings of Nigerians. A statement issued by its National Publicity ...

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Bwari has nullified criminal charge proceedings of the Grade 1 Area Court, Karishi, Abuja, the African Peoples Party (APP) brought against Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. In an application for ...

The presidency has commended purported endorsement of the 2019 presidential elections as free, fair and credible by 60 presidential candidates and chairmen of their political parties. The presidential candidates, therefore, urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and others challenging the ...