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  A former Chief of Army Staff and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Benin Republic, Tukur Buratai has denied links to monies and properties recently seized in Abuja by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Recall that the ICPC had raided a property in the Wuse 2 area ...

  The Lagos State Ministry of Education on Monday evening said it has shut the Redeemers Nursery and Primary School, Ogba. The government said the school will remain closed, pending an administrative investigation of its operations and procedures as well as the conduct of its officials ¨C in line with ...

  The Federal Government has revoked the training contract awarded to Express Concern International (ECN) to train former Niger Delta militants. The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col.Milland Dikio (retd), made this known in a statement on Sunday signed by his spokesman, Neotabase Egbe. Dikio stated the ...

      Arsenal have signed Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus for £45m, the club confirmed on Monday. The Brazilian will wear the No. 9 shirt which was worn by Alexandre Lacazette who return to Lyon. Jesus is now Arsenal’s fourth signing of the summer transfer window after Marquinhos (Marcos Aoás ...

  A yet-to-be-identified vandal was electrocuted in the early hours of Sunday for allegedly vandalising Umuezerimpi 500KVA Distribution Substation. The property belongs to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC (EEDC), located at Umuatuegwu Okija, Anambra State, THE WHISTLER gathered. Mr. Emeka Ezeh, head, Corporate Communications, EEDC, Enugu, disclosed this in ...

  The federal government of Nigeria under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced Mr. Chukwuyere N. Anamekwe as the acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF).   It was gathered that Anamekwe was replaced about two weeks ago over allegations of corruption and investigation by the Economic and Financial ...

  The decision of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to pick for Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima, has not gone down well with governors elected on the party’s platform. Indications have emerged disclosing that APC governors want one of their colleagues ...

  The convoy of the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, on Sunday was involved in a road accident in Abuja. The development was confirmed in a statement released by the media aide to the Governor, Terver Akase. According to Akase, no life was lost in the incident that happened ...

  Eleven persons were burnt beyond recognition in an accident that occured at Ogere end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the Ogere Remo-North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The Public Relations Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps ,Ogun State Sector, Florence Okpe, who confirmed the incident on Sunday ...

Herdsmen have converted the Kwara State Complex Stadium Ilorin, into a fertile land for cattle pasture as weeds overtake a section of the facility. This weekend, cattle were sighted grazing on grasses in parts of the complex.   Fresh and dried cow dung could also be seen on the asphalt ...