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October, 2017

  • 3 October

    58 dead, over 500 injured in Las Vegas massacre

    64-year-old Nevada resident Stephen Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel towards an open-air music festival attended by 22,000….United States President Donald Trump has described the mass shooting in Las Vegas that led to the death of 58 people as “an act of pure evil” At least 58 were killed and hundreds injured in the ...

  • 3 October

    NJC begins probe of 15 judges for alleged misconduct

    The National Judicial Council (NJC) is probing 15 judges for alleged misconduct. Two of those under investigation are Chief Judges. Fifteen committees – one for each of the cases – have been constituted to handle the petitions. But the NJC’s Informastion Director Soji Oye, who confirmed the probe in a statement, did not name the judges Oye said the NJC ...

  • 3 October

    Ex-PPMC chief to lose Dubai assets over $18.5b subsidy revenue

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  detectives probing the disappearance of the cash have traced eight suspected assets in Dubai to a former Managing Director of the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC), Mr. Haruna Momoh. The PPMC is an arm of the NNPC. The assets may be put under Interim Forfeiture as soon as the verification is completed by ...

  • 3 October

    GUS winner, Hector’s killer recount touching details of the murder

    One of the suspects arrested for the murder of a former winner of Guilder Ultimate Search, Hector Jobarteh, has owned up to his involvement in the crime. The suspect, 49-year-old Ismaila Adeyemi, said he got a mobile phone from the valuables carted away from the victim’s residence. He said his brother, Usman Adeyemi, who had also been arrested, helped him ...

  • 3 October

    Dangote Debunks Proposed 10-Year Tax Holiday Report

    Dangote Group has  debunked the story going round that the company will benefit from a 10-year tax holiday after constructing the 35 kilometres Apapa to Oworonshoki long highway end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Speaking to cross section of journalists in his Ikoyi office yesterday, group executive director, Strategy, Portfolio Development and Capital Projects, Dangote Industries Limited, Mr. Devakumar Edwin, revealed that ...

  • 3 October

    FIFA fines Nigeria N11m for invading pitch, ahead of Nigeria vs Zambia

    FIFA has fined Nigeria $31,000 for crowd disorder during last month’s World Cup qualifier against Cameroon in Uyo, which the Super Eagles  won 4-0. FIFA has fined Nigeria 30,000 Swiss Francs (N11,049,557), after fans invaded the pitch during a 2018 World Cup qualifier. The game in question, is the 4-0 win over Cameroon at the Godswill Akpabio stadium in Uyo, ...

  • 3 October

    Presidency replies Ohaneze’s attack, hostility on Buhari

    The Presidency has said it was unfair for the Igbo group, Ohanaeze, to blame the recent unrest in the South-East on the Federal Government. Ohanaeze had in response to the President’s Independence Day broadcast said the present administration’s anti-Igbo policies fuelled agitations in the geopolitical zone. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, who ...

  • 3 October

    Buhari is Persecuting me because l called him ” a brain-dead man”-Patience

    Mrs. Patience Jonathan has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to treat her the way her husband, former President Goodluck Jonathan, treated Aisha Buhari when he (President Buhari) lost the 2011 presidential election. Patience, who is under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, said this in a statement by her Chief Press Secretary,  Belema Meshack-Hart, on Monday. The former first ...

  • 2 October

    Trump blasts Clinton, Bush and Obama as failure on North Korea,..says ” I won’t fail’ –

    President Trump is still tweeting about North Korea and its leader saying negotiating with them hasn’t worked in 25 years, why will it work now. He then went on to say 3 presidents before him failed on the North Korea issue but he won’t fail.  Follow Donald J. Trump  ✔@realDonaldTrump I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting ...

  • 2 October

    IPOB member who died during ”operation python dance”buried amidst tears

    A member of the now outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Henry Ogar Ogoyi, who died while protecting their leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was laid to rest yesterday October 1st. According to reports, Henry who hails from Iyala Ogoja, died during the clash between the military and some members of the secessionist group in Umuahia, Abia state on September 14th. He is ...