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While the federal government reduced the fees for registering marriages in Nigeria, corrupt officials of marriage registries have continued to extort prospective couples by charging above the official rate – diverting millions of naira into their personal bank accounts, and shortchanging the federal government. This investigation looks at the corrupt practices and loopholes through which a system frustrates its own online …

Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, and his Jigawa State counterpart, Muhammad Badaru, on Wednesday narrowly escaped being attacked by bandits on a highway linking Zamfara and Kano states. The governors had attended the ceremony in Gusau in which Zamfara governor, Bello Matawalle, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The convoy of the Kano governor was returning to Kano from …

…says activist’s killing may lead to war The Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, on Thursday, condemned the midnight attack on the residence of Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, in the Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State. According to Adams, eight persons were killed in the attack while the house and cars were riddled with bullets. …

Former President Donald Trump’s company and its long-serving chief financial officer are to be charged on Thursday with tax-related crimes, US media reported. They would mark the first criminal charges in a more than two-year investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into alleged fraud at the Trump Organization. The New York Times and The Washington Post said that a New …

A former defense secretary, who was the architect of the United States’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Donald Rumsfeld, is dead. He was 88, his family said in a statement released Wednesday. “It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, an American statesman and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. At 88, …

*Family protests extradition, alleges abduction from Kenya, says it violates international law *No going back on Biafra struggle — IPOB *He must not die in custody, Fani-Kayode warns *FG competent in handling security matters — ACF The British High Commission in Nigeria said yesterday that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office stood ready to provide ‘consular’ assistance on the issue …

The leader of the Umbrella Body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO), Prof Banji Akintoye, has reacted to the invasion of the Ibadan residence of Yoruba nation activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho), in the early hours of Thursday. Akintoye in a statement he personally signed and made available to THISDAY by his Communications Manager, Mr. Maxwell …

By Crusoe Osagie On a first meeting, he would not seem to you like much. Extremely unassuming, prim and proper. To classify him as a perfect gentleman hardly does justice to the description of his mien. Unfortunately, in a society where bruteness is celebrated as a hallmark of leadership and shameful conduct hailed as glorious, a Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki, until …

Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday said mass defection in both the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) is part of electoral process. “People are defecting; More will defect,” Wike’s spokesman Kelvin Ebiri said in a statement on Thursday. “There are those who are angry there (in APC), they’ll come (to PDP). “You that …

Academic activities in the nation’s universities may again be paralysed as members of the Academic Staff Union Of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) warned of a fresh strike over alleged refusal of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) to pay salaries and remit check-off dues of about 1000 staff for 13 months. Chairman, University of Jos branch of ASUU, Dr. Lazarus …