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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed doors with the Liberian President, George Weah, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting started at 12:36 p.m. after Weah’s arrival at the State House. It was the ex-soccer star’s first visit to the State House since he took oath of office as Liberian President in January. The meeting was still in ... Read More »

•Candidates to print notification from tomorrow  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed candidates for the 2018 UTME to start printing their examination notification slip from tomorrow. The board’s Head of Media and Information Department, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said in Lagos yesterday that arrangements had been concluded for the successful conduct of the exam scheduled to hold from March 9 to ... Read More »

A neurosurgeon has been suspended for opening up the head of the wrong patient in one of the worst cases of medical malpractice to become public at Kenyatta National Hospital. Two men had been wheeled into KNH unconscious last Sunday. One needed head surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain, while the other only required nursing and medication ... Read More »

The Federal Government said on Friday that the ongoing search for the 110 girls who were abducted from the Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, has been extended to the neighbouring countries. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this, said the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Olonisakin; the Chief of Naval Staff, ... Read More »

  New evidence showing that the Nigerian military was informed that Boko Haram was planning mass abductions in Yobe State has emerged. A document obtained by SaharaReporters indicated that the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) was notified by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) of plans by Boko Haram militants to carry out a massive attack in February. The confidential memo dated February ... Read More »

After about 10 months of dilly-dallying, former Aviation Minister Stella Oduah yesterday appeared before an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) panel. She was grilled for about eight hours by detectives over a N9, 443,549,531.25 contract awarded to I-Sec Security Nigeria Limited for the procurement and installation of security equipment in 22 airports. She showed up as the agency got ... Read More »

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, on Monday, February 26, 2018, arraigned one Nsa Ayi before Justice Mojisola Dada of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on an 11-count charge bordering on fraudulent false accounting to the tune of N700 million, an offence contrary to Section 335(a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State ... Read More »

Suspected Fulani herdsmen early hours of Monday invaded Mbatoho community in Makurdi, Benue State capital. Mbatoho community is a council ward located on an Island in Makurdi town. Leader of the community, who identified himself as John Tehemen, led a few other residents to lodge a complaint with deputy governor, Benson Abounu, saying that the herdsmen had ordered them to ... Read More »

One person was killed while several others were wounded on Tuesday following a bloody attack on Ikorodu Campus of the Lagos State Polytechnic ( LASPOTECH ) by suspected cultists. The deceased, identified as Ahmed Amao, was a former LASPOTECH student who had been expelled from the institution. We gather that the groups of hoodlums invaded the Ikorodu campus from different ... Read More »

Another state co-ordinator of the board in Nassarawa state has come up with a rather strange story to back an alleged fraud. A few days after the bizarre report that a snake ‘swallowed’ about N36 million from the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s vault in Benue State, another state co-ordinator of the board in Nassarawa state has come up with ... Read More »