A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the Nigerian Correctional Services to immediately release a former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. Kalu is in the Kuje Correctional Service centre following his conviction last December for looting N7.65billion belonging to Abia State. Justice Mohammad Liman granted the lawmaker’s application for release moved by his counsel Lateef ... Read More »

The Police in Edo have arrested one person suspected to have been part of the gang that raped and killed a 100-level Microbiology student of UNIBEN, Uwaila Vera Omozuwa. Chairperson of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, confirmed the development on her twitter handle @abikedabiri. She hinted the police carried out the arrest through the thumbprint of the suspect on ... Read More »

 First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s premier and leading financial inclusion services provider, has announced that it has reinforced its technology infrastructure to enable anyone in the country open a FirstBank account through their mobile phones, without visiting any of its branches nationwide.  The investment in the Bank’s mobile banking infrastructure is in furtherance of the need to deepen financial ... Read More »

The family of Mr. and Mrs Harrison Nwachukwu has been thrown into mourning, following the stealing of their 10-month old baby boy by a strange couple on Friday in Umuahia, Abia State. The shock has left the nursing mother acting strangely. Narrating how the child was stolen in is mother’s hair saloon Mr. Harrison a staff of Federal Road Safety ... Read More »

….Federal Government has directed the “restrictive opening” of worship centres  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Monday 1st of June 2020, announced that 416 new confirmed cases and 12 deaths have been recorded in Nigeria. This is the second-highest daily figure recorded by the centre after it announced 553 confirmed cases on Saturday 30th May 2020, since the ... Read More »

  The Department of State Service (DSS) confirmed on Monday that its investigation revealed alteration in the exemption certificate issued by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Lawrence Oborawharievwo Ewhrudjakpo. The Head, Legal Department, DSS, Abdulsalam Ibrahim, who represented DSS’ Director General, told the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Tribunal in Abuja that ... Read More »

The National Chairman All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has stated the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) has approved direct primaries for the Edo governorship poll. Oshiomhole said this on Monday at a news conference shorty after meeting with APC Governors Forum led by Gov. Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi, at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja. He added that the ... Read More »

A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted an interim injunction restraining the Edo State Government and Governor Godwin Obaseki, from arresting and prosecuting the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, over indictment in a white paper submitted to the state government. Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a ruling on Monday, said the restraining order ... Read More »

Manchester United Agree To Extend Ighalo’s Loan Deal From Chinese Club Odion Ighalo Share Tweet Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email Share Manchester United have agreed on a deal to extend Odion Ighalo’s loan until the end of January 2021, pending formal approval, Ighalo initially joined Manchester United in a Deadline Day move from Shanghai Shenua in January and scored four times ... Read More »

Zenith Bank Plc, Nigeria’s leading financial institution, has emerged as the Best Bank in Nigeria in the recently released Global Finance Magazine World’s Best Banks Awards 2020. The awards, which was published in the May 2020 edition of the Global Finance Magazine, was based on the performances of the banks in their respective regions and countries over the period from ... Read More »