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An official of Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr. Timothy Olaobaju, on Monday, narrated how a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, stashed a sum of $115,010,000 in the bank with subsequent instructions to convert it to naira and be distributed among individuals in the 36 states of the federation. Among the beneficiaries, Olaobaju said, […]

Women forced to leave home by Boko Haram jihadists held a protest on Sunday to demand better conditions as UN Security Council envoys visited their camp. According to AFP, the demonstrators accused local authorities and aid agencies of exacerbating one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, which the UN says has left northeastern Nigeria on […]

Counsel for a former United States’ Internal Revenue Service employee who pleaded guilty to participating in a Nigerian-based identity theft scheme has said he shouldn’t face federal prison time because he was ‘catfished’ and ‘misguided’. In October, Gregory Lundene, 53, pleaded guilty before Flint US District Judge Terrence G. Berg to a charge of conspiracy […]Read More

A 200 level student of Lead City University, Ibadan, Moshood Owolabi, is to die by hanging for stabling his fellow student to death. Delivering judgment on Wednesday, Justice Adegboye Gbolagunte of an Ibadan High Court sentenced Owolabi to death by hanging for causing the death of one Seun Kolawole, two years ago. Owolabi of the […]

In the past 10 days, there have been three cases of sexual relationships that revealed aspects of our Nigerian character — the tendency to side with the man and punish the woman. First, there was Habiba Inusa, a nursing mother who was recently remanded in prison for adultery. Inusa had participated in the mass wedding […]

The Chairman of the sacked Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ahmed Makarfi, has rejected the proposal by the Standing Committee on Reconciliation of the PDP, headed by Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State. The former Kaduna State governor said he never endorsed the proposals as claimed by Dickson. The Dickson-led committee, which submitted […]

Members of the House of Representatives expressed shock, on Tuesday, that the Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative budgeted N60m to cut grasses this year in communities ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgents. The information is coming when the controversies surrounding a similar contract worth over N200m, awarded by the Office of the Secretary to the […]

He said he merely opened his doors to Sheriff and other members of his entourage when they visited him at his residence in Abuja on Monday. The former governor of Borno State was at Jonathan’s residence to discuss the outcome of the Court of Appeal judgment, which on Friday, affirmed him as the national chairman […]

hoodlums, on Thursday, took advantage of a protest by some students in Abuja to invade a regional office of telecommunications giant, MTN, where they vandalised office equipment and looted phone sets, laptops and personal effects. Recently, Nigerians in South Africa were objects of widespread and gruesome xenophobic attacks. The vandals also damaged car windscreens and […]