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A special offences (mobile) court in Lagos has sentenced Ogbulu Chidinma Pearl, a socialite better known as Erelu Okin, to 27 months imprisonment. On March 4, Pearl distributed petrol as souvenir to guests at an event organised to celebrate her chieftaincy title. Videos of the distribution of petrol-filled jerrycans at the event […]

The United States says it is placing six Nigerians on its terror list as a result of their involvement in “sponsoring terrorism”. The Nigerians are Abdurrahman Ado Musa. Salihu Yusuf Adamu, Bashir Ali Yusuf, Muhammed Ibrahim Isa, Ibrahim Ali Alhassan, and Surajo Abubakar Muhammad. The development comes six months after the United […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approached a federal high court in Abuja to seek the invalidation of the outcome of the All Progressives Congress (APC) national convention. This suit is coming less than a day to the ruling party’s convention scheduled for Saturday. In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CR/389/2022, the PDP is […]

The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Allied and Educational Institutions (NASU) have declared a two-week warning strike. The unions had earlier threatened to embark on a warning strike if the federal government fails to meet its demands by March 27. […]

Augustine Eguavoen, Super Eagles of Nigeria technical adviser, has named a strong starting lineup for the 2022 FIFA World Cup playoff game against Ghana. Nigeria and Ghana will slug it out at the 40,000–capacity Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi tonight — where both teams will battle for the ticket to Qatar. In the attack, […]

Nigerian naira weakened to N587 per dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange (FX) market. The drop is N2 or 0.3 percent from the N585 it traded last week as dollar scarcity persists at official and the parallel markets, better known as the black market. Black market traders in Lagos who spoke […]

President Joe Biden and the European Union have announced a liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal to reduce Europe’s reliance on Russian fossil fuels.  The deal was announced on Friday during a three-day visit by the United States president to Brussels, Belgium.  The United States had banned the importation of coal, gas, and oil from […]

Abdullahi Sule, governor of Nasarawa, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) will adopt consensus candidates at its national convention on Saturday.  The APC national convention is scheduled to take place this Saturday. Sule, who is the chairman of the media and publicity sub-committee for the convention, spoke on Friday at a news […]