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A final year student of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Chukwuemeka Akachi have allegedly committed suicide. Akachi who was a student of English and Literary Studies and reportedly a first class student took his own life after dropping a suicide note on Facebook. It is learned that Akachi consumed two bottles of a poisonous substance and it was the second …

  Sen. Godswill Akpabio, Senate Minority Leader, on Wednesday told the Federal High Court Abuja, that the suit seeking him to vacate his seat at the National Assembly was incompetent. The suit was instituted on July 2018 by an advocacy body known as Legal Defence and Assistant Project (LEPAD). LEPAD is seeking the court to declare the seat of the …

  •FG shuns Kokori, Labour, inaugurates •I haven’t been informed about Michael Imoudu institute’s appointment—Kokori ABUJA —Despite opposition by Labour, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, yesterday, amid tight security, inaugurated the Board of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, with Austin Enajemo-Isire, as chairman. The inauguration did not, however, go without protest by the Nigeria Labour …

  The Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru, on Tuesday said the Corporation had recovered 1.6 billion dollars from some companies fleecing one of its subsidiaries. Baru disclosed this in Abuja while fielding questions from newsmen after a visit by officials of the Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Professionals of Nigeria (CIFIP) The Institute …

  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the federal government can seize assets from citizens who cannot explain the source of their wealth. The vice president made this known on Tuesday while declaring the anti-corruption conference organised by the office of the vice president and the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) in Abuja on Tuesday. “The Supreme Court in a …

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) derides the President Muhammadu Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for thinking that moving major events of its planned Presidential inauguration from May 29 to June 12, the democracy Day, can confer any form of legitimacy to the outcome of the rigged 2019 Presidential election. The PDP also asserts that inviting world …

  Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has lambasted the United States for the delay in designating Boko Haram a terror group, paying glowing tributes to Leah Sharibu in an ode to Leah and Chibok girls. Soyinka, who spoke at Georgetown University, Washington, also likened Leah Sharibu to iconic human rights champion, the late Dr. Nelson Mandela of South Africa. “We …

  The United States Embassy in Nigeria has announced stiffer and stricter visa application processes for Nigerians . The embassy said in a statement on Tuesday that henceforth , all applicants including frequent travellers who used to use the drop box method would now have to appear for interviews each time they applied . It , however, said diplomatic and …

  The Majority Leader and candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Speaker in the Ninth National Assembly , Mr Femi Gbajabiamila , has said he now has the numbers to win the seat at the House of Representatives leadership election . Chairman of the Gbajabiamila Speakership Campaign Council, Mr Abdulmumin Jibrin , who addressed journalists in Abuja on Tuesday …

  President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is upset with the level of poverty in Nigeria. The president made his feelings known when he hosted Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Ministers, Service Chiefs, Heads of Security Agencies and Chief Executives of Federal Government Agencies and Institutions to a breaking of fast at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He also frowned at the inability …