The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has discovered 3,000 ghost pensioners in the police pension scheme, the Director-General, Nellie Mayshak, has said. Mayshak made the disclosure at a two-day sensitisation workshop in Abuja on Thursday, saying, “when PTAD was first […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday alleged that Boko Haram had hatched a plot to use refuse collectors to bomb houses of very important personalities (VIPs) in the North-East Osinbajo, who is chairman of the National Economic Council (NEC), raised the […]
Apparently to stave off pressure over electoral disputes, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmood Mohammed, has banned politicians from his residence. His security detail from the Department of State Service (DSS) and police orderly will henceforth be part […]
Residents rose in protest as 92-year-old paramount ruler of Tombia community the Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, HRH Christian Otobotekere, was on Thursday kidnapped by about five heavily armed men. The kidnap triggered protest on the rising incidence […]
CATHOLIC Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie has appealed to Nigerians to give President Muhammadu Buhari ample opportunity to study the situation of things before embarking on his avowed crusade against corruption and insecurity. He also argued that […]
WHEN Daramola Omoshalewa left home in the afternoon of Thursday last week, little did he know that it was the last time he was setting foot on his Festac Town home in Lagos. The 45-year-old Assistant Treasurer of the All […]
A Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a police corporal, Abang Okon, to six years imprisonment for unlawful killing of one Olalekan Ajayi . Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya imposed the jail term on Okon after he pleaded guilty […]
he Lagos State Government has dissociated itself from fake advertorials making the rounds on the internet about admission into the State School of Nursing. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Modele Osunkiyesi, in a disclaimer to the public stated […]
The daughter of former President Umaru Yar’ Adua and wife of former Kebbi State Governor, Saidu Dakingari, Zaina Dakingari, have been invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged fraud to the tune of N2billion perpetrated during her […]
President Buhari rounded-off the visit on Wednesday after an earlier meeting with representatives of the United States Institute of Peace, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Atlantic Council, National Democratic Institute, International Republican Institute and International Foundation of Electoral System. […]