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Lagos state government has reiterated its zero tolerance for land grabbing and other illegal activities being perpetrated by land owners in the state, saying land grabbers have no hiding place in the state any more as the government is fully prepared for them. The government which gave the warning at the just concluded 5th West Africa Property Investment summit in …

South African Police Constable, Austin Reynold, who robbed and killed a Nigerian, Emeka Okoli, was on Monday sentenced to 32 years in prison by a Durban High Court. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the court sentenced the policeman three days after he was found guilty of robbing and killing the late Okoli during an illegal raid in the community where …

Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has recorded another feat in the area of Research and Development (R & D), with the successful fabrication of a GTCP85 Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) Test Stand for the C-130H aircraft fleet. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Daramola said the local …

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday in Daura, Katsina State, said Nigeria’s socio-economic and political salvation would come from education. The President spoke through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in a statement echoing his speech at an event to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Community Secondary School, Daura. Buhari and five others founded the school …

One of Nigeria’s foremost Marine Engineers and business moguls, Edo-born Engr. Greg Ogbeifun now heads the Benin City River Port Project Technical committee, inaugurated on Monday by Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki. The purpose of the committee is to propel the actualization of the legacy project as part of the state’s industrialization drive, Obaseki said while inaugurating the committee. …

Nigeria’s anti-graft Agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Sunday went tough on Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema, the Chairman of Air Peace by seizing his passports and restricting his movement, following money laundry charges leveled against him by the US Authorities. On November 23, 2019, Allen Ifechukwu Athan Onyema was charged with 27 counts of money laundering by one …

Nigeria’s Defense Headquarters (DHQ) has dismissed the alleged recruitment of de-radicalized Boko Haram ex-fighters into the Nigeria Military. The Acting Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Nwachukwu described the information being peddled on social media as false and misleading, urging Nigerians to disregard it in its entirety. According to him, …

By Igbotako Nowinta It ridicules reason and offends commonsense that these opportunistic politicians developed selfish and diabolical interest, uncontrollable impulse to amass wealth in tandem with their oversize ambitions of recycling themselves now and then within the polity. Most amazingly, shockingly and reprehensibly, this annoying pension allocation for ex-Governors, ex-Speakers and their deputies has stayed for too long. This is …

Nigerian government has accused the Republic of Benin of being recalcitrant in its importation of prohibited goods for ultimate dumping into Nigeria’s market in spite the partial border closure order. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made the accusation when he featured on a TV Continental live Program, monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria. “Regrettably, the signs …

Rather than direct immediate compliance with a federal court order that freed Omoyele Sowore on bail, President Muhammadu Buhari has instead been sending emissaries to the activist to extract commitment from him to back down on the ‘revolution now’ protest as a precondition for his release. In at least two attempts now confirmed by PREMIUM TIMES, the president’s emissaries visited …