Interpol suspends FIFA partnership
Interpol has suspended a joint anti-match-fixing programme with Fifa over allegations of corruption against the football governing body. The international police agency is freezing the €20 million...
View ArticleNavy holds 2015 Second Quarter route march
The Nigerian Navy on Saturday in Abuja conducted its 2015 Second Quarter 10km route march for officers and ratings of the service. The route march was to ensure that officers and ratings of the navy...
View ArticleThree trekkers for Atiku stranded in Yola
Three men, who trekked to Yola in honour of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, are now stranded in Yola. The men, Salihu Jibrin, Aliyu Adamu and Abubakar Suleiman, who spoke to newsmen on Saturday...
View ArticleTurkish mother, 36, kills pregnant daughter
A Turkish mother, 36, shot dead her daughter, 17, after finding out that she was three months pregnant, media reports said on Saturday. The mother, named as Emine A., found out that her daughter Meryem...
View ArticleI’ll advance security in Nigeria-IGP
Inspector General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase has promised that the Police force under his watch will advance security operation in Nigeria. The IGP also said he would ensure that Policemen exhibit...
View Article4 persons killed in Plateau village
Suspected Fulani gunmen yesterday allegedly killed four people at Rakung village in Barakinladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. The victims, our correspondent gathered, were villagers returning...
View ArticleSix dead, 100 injured in India gas leak
At least six people have died and 100 others have been taken to nearby hospitals after a gas leak in India’s northern Punjab province. The leak happened after a tanker carrying ammonia gas got stuck...
View ArticleEFCC witness tells court how exaccountant, others stole pension funds
The trial of Tahir Abdullahi Garba, a Chief accountant in the Pension Office of the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, whose company, Charo Bureau De Change Limited was allegedly used to...
View ArticleCurrency scam: N3.9b destroyed with acid, water – EFCC
The lead prosecution in the ongoing N8 billion currency scam yesterday told the court how some of the accused persons allegedly destroyed boxes loaded with N3.96 billion with acid and water, making...
View ArticleEFCC files fresh corruption charges against ex-Gov Sylva
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday filed fresh corruption charges against a former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Sylva is charged...
View Article442 die in China boat accident
Final death toll rose to 442 as bodies of the last several missing people aboard the capsized Yangtze River cruise ship Eastern Star had been found, a rescue official said Saturday. Only 12 people...
View ArticleAnambra elects another female Speaker
Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has inaugurated the six Anambra House of Assembly with a charge that the legislators should see themselves as representing their entire constituency rather...
View ArticleCelebratory gunfire kills woman at French wedding
A young woman died after being shot in the head while attending a wedding in northern France on Saturday, sources close to the investigation said. According to the mayor of the town of Marly, Fabien...
View ArticleNavy conducts 2015 fitness test for officers
Nigerian Navy headquarters Abuja, yesterday, conducted fitness test for its officers and ratings, when all undertook a 10km route march from the Mogadishu Cantonment, the popular Abacha Barracks,...
View ArticleSupreme Court orders bizman, coy to refund N85m to Benu
Supreme Court has ordered a businessman, Chief Kris Onyekwuluje and his company, Artex Investment Limited to refund N85,575,111.60 to the Benue State government for the shoddy execution of a supply...
View ArticleBauchi political group refutes defection of former FCT Minister
A non governmental organisation, Kaura Working Cycle based in Bauchi state has refuted the report credited to a national newspaper that former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator...
View ArticleOchekpe donates laboratory equipment to hospital in Jos
Former Minister of Water Resource, Sarah Reng Ochekpe, has donated laboratory equipment worth $400,000 to Vom Christian Hospital in Plateau State, to improve health service delivery to less privilege...
View ArticleAmbode pledges his commitment to justice
Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday pledged his commitment to expanding the frontiers of democratic governance, social justice and freedom of the people. Ambode made the pledge at a...
View ArticleNASS: PDP’ll give APC robust opposition –Sen Ogba
As the eighth National Assembly settles for the business of lawmaking, leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said they are ready to give the All Progressive congress, APC a robust...
View ArticleBauchi political group refutes defection of former FCT Minister
A non governmental organisation, Kaura Working Cycle based in Bauchi state has refuted the report credited to a national newspaper that former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Senator...
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