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Senator Ekweremadu to remain in prison as Wife is granted bail
55-year-old Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, wife of Senator Ike Ekeremadu has been granted bail. Recall that the former Deputy Senate President and his wife are facing trial in the United Kingdom after being accused of allegedly plotting to traffic a man whose age has been established to be 21, to the…
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Max Air makes emergency landing in Abuja
A Max Air aircraft, flight VM1645, on Saturday evening made an emergency landing in Abuja after the pilot detected a fault. Chronicle NG reports that the Abuja to Lagos bound Boeing 737 MAX aircraft developed a fault midair, causing the plane to stop-start. After several attempts by the pilot to…
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Aregbesola Drops Cryptic Message For APC And Oyetola As Adeleke Wins Osun Election
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has broken silence on the just-concluded Osun State Governorship election. Aregbesola who shunned Saturday’s governorship election dropped a cryptic note after the loss of Governor Gboyega Oyetola. Aregbesola, who is the only Osun indigene among President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers, had stayed away from the…
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Chief Of Staff To Lagos Governor, Tayo Ayinde, Allegedly Linked To Over N500million Land Scandal
Tayo Ayinde, the Chief of Staff to the Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has been accused of gross impersonation, assault over a landed property belonging to Chief Adetunji Omisore and one Tajudeen Mohammed, at No. 4, Ladoke Akintola Street, GRA Ikeja. It was gathered that Ayinde, in a bid to…
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Reasons Glo won Beacon of ICT Awards revealed
Respondents voted for Glo in the “Most Innovative Network” category owing to its unique products and value-added services such as Glo Berekete, Glo Café, and friendly recharge and data plans”, organizers of the Beacon of ICT Awards have revealed. Besides these, the award organizers further disclosed that the company’s remarkable…
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Don Jazzy devastated as mother dies
Nigerian music producer, Michael Collins Ajereh, popularly known as Don Jazzy, has announced the death of his mother, Mrs Ajereh. He disclosed this on Friday night via his verified Instagram page. The MAVIN boss wrote; “I lost my sweet mother this morning. The matriarch of our family. My supporter and…
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Nigerian doctor charged in the UK with plotting with Senator Ekweremadu and wife for alleged kidney harvesting
A doctor has been accused of plotting with a wealthy Nigerian senator and his wife to traffic a homeless man into the UK to harvest a kidney for their daughter, a court heard today. Obinna Obeta, 50, from Southwark, south London, is charged under the Modern Slavery Act with arranging…
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Atiku: Labour Party can’t win presidential election — 90% of northerners not on social media
Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says he is not expecting the Labour Party (LP) to pull off a surprise to win the 2023 presidential election. Atiku spoke in an interview on Arise TV on Friday. Speaking on the chances of the LP in the 2023…
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JUST IN: EFCC brings suspended accountant-general to court over ‘N109 billion fraud’
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrived at a federal capital territory high court with Ahmed Idris, suspended accountant-general of the federation.
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How suspended AGF got N15bn bribe on payment to oil-producing states – EFCC
Details have emerged of how the suspended Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, received N15bn as a kickback to fast-track the payment of 13% derivation funds to oil-producing states. According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the embattled AGF accepted the sum of N15,136,221,921.46 for accelerating the…