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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday told the United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, why Nigeria opted for negotiation with the Boko Haram militants who abducted the Chibok girls and students of the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State.The President said Nigeria prefers to have the abducted girls back alive. He made the remark while receiving the ... Read More »

A business woman in Sokoto,  Rabiat Mustapha, 30, has been remanded in prison custody over alleged murder of her baby born out of wedlock. Mustapha, who resides at Asada area of Sokoto, is facing a two-count charge of criminal conspiracy and preventing a child from being borne or causing it die after birth. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge. ... Read More »

  As a way of integrating secondary school students as an important socio-economic group towards attaining the vision for Greater Lagos, the Lagos State Government, in partnership with Entertainment Media Limited, Publishers of E24-7 Magazine and FlipTV, are organising an annual Lagos High School Band Challenge (LHSBC). The challenge, according to the conveners, is designed to be a live music ... Read More »

A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced Charles Okah and Obi Nwabueze to life imprisonment for the 2010 explosions in Abuja and Warri. Justice Gabriel Kolawole, in a judgment that lasted about six hours, held that the prosecution proved its case against the two defendants in the five counts. Okah and Nwabueze were charged with financing and actual participation ... Read More »

The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, on Thursday reserved judgment in the Federal Government’s suit seeking to extradite Senator Buruji Kashamu to the United States. A three-man panel led by Justice Joseph Ikhegh reserved judgment after parties adopted their written addressees. Buruji, who since represents Ogun East in the Senate, is wanted by the U.S Government to stand trial for ... Read More »

INUNDATED with complaints from property owners over the revised Lagos State Land Use Charge (LUC) Act, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday explained what informed    the review. He said his doors were opened for dialogue. According to him, the government is not oblivious of the outcry against the law. His administration, he said, was not out to overburden property owners. Ambode was ... Read More »

Eight companies which got N4.478 billion to supply 104 Unity Colleges Science Kits disappeared with the cash, The Nation has learnt. The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has written the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to admit that the kits were not supplied. The anti-graft agency is probing top UBEC. officials for alleged diversion of a huge chunk of ... Read More »

  The United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO),  is on the verge on launching an investigation under the Unexplained Wealth Order into how the Messrs after receiving a letter from the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu, President and Deputy President of the Senate respectively, acquired pricey landed properties in the  United Kingdom. Mr. Saraki, at various ... Read More »

Youths: act on lawmaker’s tip The military has dismissed the claim that the 110 abducted Dapchi girls are in Yobe State. A top officer, who pleaded for anonymity, last night described Hon Goni Bukar and other politicians/activists speaking on the whereabouts of the girls and the identity of their abductors as “a bunch of confusionists”. “If they know where the ... Read More »

The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, Aje Ogungunniso I, has said the story credited to him on Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s “third term” was largely misunderstood. The frontline monarch said he did not use the words literally but figuratively, adding that he was surprised many people could not read between the lines. Oba Adetunji spoke in Ibadan, ... Read More »