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Armed Policemen, on Tuesday morning, aborted a rally, when it barricaded Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota, Lagos State, venue of the planned pro Amotekun protest, preventing protesters from converging on the ground. The rally was in support of the establishment of the Western Nigeria Security outfit, codenamed, “Operation Amotekun” which has remained a controversial subject in the country. The security personnel, …

The United States President, Donald Trump, has confirmed that the nation plans on expanding a controversial travel ban to include more countries. Trump revealed this in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He, however, declined to list the countries that will be included in the new announcement. US …

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn licences from 11 Computer-Based Centres (CBTs) for charging candidates unreasonably high amount in the ongoing 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). The Registrar of the board, Ishaq Oloyede, said this in Abuja on Tuesday at an interactive session with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), banks, E-transact, Digital Partner …

Nine lawmakers in the Imo House of Assembly, including its minority leader, have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) days after the ruling party clinched the governorship position via a Supreme Court ruling. The Deputy Speaker of the assembly, Okey Onyekamma (Mbaitoli, PDP) also, on Tuesday, resigned his position as a principal officer of the Assembly. The minority …

Oxford English Dictionary has added 29 Nigerian words and expressions in its January updates to the dictionary. This was confirmed in a blog post on the dictionary’s website. OED, in the post, said some of the words were borrowed while others are coinages. “The majority of these new additions are either borrowings from Nigerian languages, or unique Nigerian coinages that have only …

The Deputy Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, Okey Onyekanma, has resigned. His letter of resignation was read by the speaker of the house during plenary on Tuesday. Onyekanma equally resigned as the Chairman, House Committee on Rules and Business. PUNCH

President Muhammadu Buhari has sought the cooperation of the National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom in the investigation of fugitives from Nigeria finding accommodation in that country. Femi Adesina, the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja, said the Nigerian leader made the call during a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in …

A member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mrs Daisy Danjuma, on Monday said she had no regret supporting the second term bid of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State. Danjuma, had on Sunday in Lagos at a town hall meeting organised for Obaseki, threw her weight behind the second term bid of the governor. She …

It was necessitated by collapsing security apparatus — DicksonSays it’s a component of restructuring It’s way to go in addressing security challenges —Labour Nigeria can’t engage enough manpower to police entire countrySupport outfit, Yusuf Ali tells FG Organised Labour has thrown its weight behind South West Security Initiative, Operation Amotekun, contending that such outfits were the way to go for the …

It was tears, as United States Army, family and friends on Saturday December 14, 2019 paid their last respect to Military veteran, late Lt. Col  Valerie Doughty-Iyawe, wife of U.S.-based Nigerian American businessman, Mr. Roy Iyawe, who succumbed to the will of God on December 6, 2019 at the age of 60. Funeral service in her honor was held on …