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A review of old U.S. diplomatic cables by PREMIUM TIMES has shed fresh light on the circumstances under which Justice Taslim Elias was controversially sacked as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) in August 1975 and […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has received another aircraft from Caverton Helicopters. This was revealed in a tweet by Caverton Group while restating its commitment to the safety of the Vice President. The tweet read: “A […]

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has pledged to end the lingering strike by university lecturers in the country, from his first day at work, if elected the next president of […]

Presidency sources yesterday offered an insight into what led to the chartering of the ill-fated Caverton helicopter to fly Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and nine others at the weekend. Inquiries by The Guardian confirmed that […]

The chopper which conveyed Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo from Abuja to Kabba in Kogi state crash-landed on Saturday. Osinbajo and his crew survived the crash, which is the second air mishap suffered by the vice-president in […]

Washington has imposed visa restrictions on Ghana following a row over the deportation of Ghanaians staying illegally in the United States. The move, which goes into effect on February 4, will also affect government employees […]

Indications have emerged that the Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, might be offered a soft landing and allowed to complete his tenure. That is in spite of the impeachment threats and allegations of gross […]

Hoodlums on Thursday attacked the campaign convoy of the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr Jimi Agbaje at Iba in Ojo, west of Lagos. A News Agency of Nigeria political correspondent reports […]

PRESIDENT Buhari has deliberately upped the ante on corruption in this campaign because he wants to make next month’s presidential election all about graft. His decision last week to suspend and replace the Chief Justice […]

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has said that: ‘I Wole Soyinka will not be voting for either the two so called contesting parties. I find both of them worthy of absolute rejection.’ Soyinka made this known […]

Supporters of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode have protested the planned impeachment of the governor at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Wednesday. Below are the photos: Pro-Ambode supporters protest Pro-Ambode supporters protest Pro-Ambode supporters protest […]

The House of Representatives yesterday endorsed the N30,000 as national minimum wage per month to every worker in the country. Adopting the report of the Sulaimon Yussuff Lasun-led adhoc committee that considered the draft bill […]

The Legislative Probity and Accountability (LPA) has asked the Lagos State House of Assembly to account for the N28.8 billion it collected as running cost under Speaker Mudashiru Obasa’s leadership. The civil society organisation (CSO) […]

The Nigerian government has approved for use its first genetically modified crop: the Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea (popularly called beans). This was after it had been genetically modified to resist the pest – Maruca Vitrata. […]

A Bank Verification Number (BVN) search may have exposed more accounts linked to the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen. Detectives are understood to have written three banks for details of the […]

THE Federal Government has ordered immediate crackdown on all illegal tertiary institutions in the country. Among the affected illegal institutions currently operating in the country, according to the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, are […]

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says it will test run the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge line early February. Fidet Okhiria, the NRC Managing Director, who disclosed this on Wednesday at Ijoko in Ogun while inspecting the […]