Appointment of SANs as Supreme Court justices would erode judiciary independence, Gomez warns
Octogenarian Lagos-based lawyer, Pa Tunji Gomez, has said nothing good can come out of the plan to appoint Senior Advocates of Nigeria as
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Expansion of Lagos-Ibadan bridge begins
The expansion work on the Lagos-Ibadan bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway has commenced with the installation of expansion joints by the contractor, Julius
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FG disbands arms probe panel as NSA, Monguno, was under searchlight
The presidential panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to probe arms procurement between 2007 and 2015 has been disbanded, Sunday PUNCH learnt
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PDP crisis: Fayose doesn’t have the mandate to speak for governors, says Sheriff
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has said that it was wrong for Governor Ayodele Fayose to
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Osinbajo signs seven bills into laws
Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has assented to seven bills passed by the National Assembly. The bills which include Oath (Amendment) Act 2017,
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Nigerian drug pusher battles 11 Indian police
It took 11 Indian policemen to subdue and arrest a Nigerian drug pusher near a garden at MiniSeashore in Mumbai, in the Indian state
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Xenophobia: Nigerians suffer fresh attacks in S/Africa
The Nigerian Community in South Africa have confirmed attacks and looting of Nigerian-owned businesses in Pretoria West on Saturday. Mr Ikechukwu Anyene, President,
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FCT seeks AfDB loan for BRT
The Secretary, FCT Transportation Secretariat, Alhaji Hamid Suleiman, says the administration has applied for a loan of $100 million from the African Development
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Bus crash survivors’ accounts: “A woman dived out of window to save her baby”
More accounts have emerged on the events leading to the crash of a 59-passenger luxury bus on its way from Aba, Abia State,
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Revealed: FG has reintroduced subsidy on petroleum products
Petrol subsidy is back. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has been offsetting for months the difference between the landing costs of petrol and
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“Winners Chapel got N35m of NIMASA slush funds” – witness
A Federal High Court in Lagos friday heard how Winners Chapel, a church owned by Pastor David Oyedepo got N35million out of the
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Kidnapping: Police deploy tracking devices in Lagos, Rivers
The Inspector- General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, says the force will establish special tracking unit in Lagos and Port-Harcourt to check kidnapping
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PDP: “We will appeal to the Supreme Court”, Sen. Makarfi declares
The Sen. Ahmed Markafi-led, National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has resolved to challenge the Court of Appeal’s Judgement affirming
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BREAKING: Appeal Court declares Sheriff authentic PDP chairman
An Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt this Friday declared Senator Ali Modu Sheriff the Acting Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party. The judgement
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UAE to build city on Mars
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the Vice President and Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates, this Friday, announced that the country was planning to build
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BREAKING: Three feared dead as luxury bus plunges into Lagos canal
At least three people including the driver, were killed, while 23 sustained injuries after a luxury bus with registration number Anambra GDD 386
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9 Suicide bombers invade Maiduguri, destroy 13 vehicles
Nine bombers died in Maiduguri between Thursday night and early Friday, in what would qualify as the boldest plan by Boko Haram to
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N522bn Paris Club refund: “Probe us if you can”, govs tell EFCC
State governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum, in the early hours of Thursday, rose from their meeting, saying they were
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Corruption Scandal: Samsung boss arrested
The heir to the Samsung business empire has been arrested on corruption allegations. Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of South Korea’s biggest
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PHOTOS: Fire razes buildings, vehicles in Onitsha
An inferno, on Wednesday night, razed down a filling station, 15 vehicles, and some nearby buildings along the Upper New Market Road, Onitsha,
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2019: Atiku, Lamido may clash over PDP presidential ticket
There are indications that former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and a former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, are making moves towards clinching
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Judge orders permanent forfeiture of Diezani’s $153m to FG
Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the permanent forfeiture of a sum of $153,310,000, which was said
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Pastor Ashimolowo’s Church under criminal probe in London
The City of London police are investigating an alleged fraud involving a former Premier League footballer who lost £3.9 million from a British
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Australian catholic church pays $212m to sexual abuse victims
Australia’s Catholic Church paid 276 million Australian dollars (212 million dollars) in compensation to thousands of people who were victims of sexual abuse
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UK Visit: “The Buhari I saw is healthy”, says Saraki
Senate President Bukola Saraki, who led a team of National Assembly leaders to visit President Muhammadu Buhari in London, said at the end
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Noose tightens on Akpabio as EFCC seizes wife’s school.
A school allegedly belonging to Unoma Akpabio, the wife of the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, has been seized
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Petrol tanker fire raze buildings, banks, filling station in Onitsha
A petrol tanker fire Wednesday night, razed down more than 10 buildings including shopping malls, banks, residences and a Mobil filling station near
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Zamfara Govt House, hospital in darkness over unpaid electricity bills
Zamfara State Government House in Gusau has remained in darkness following the disconnection of electricity supply to the premises by the Kaduna Power
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Bayern Munich destroy Arsenal, Madrid win
Bayern Munich ruthlessly destroyed visiting Arsenal in the first leg of their Champions League Round of 16 tie. The visitors conceded five goals
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Football headers risk brain damage, say scientists
Repeated headers during a footballer’s professional career may be linked to long-term brain damage, according to tentative evidence from scientists in the United
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