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A day after thousands marched in cities across the US to demand the president release his tax returns, Donald Trump used Twitter to say “someone should look into who paid” for the rallies. Trump wrote: “I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again? …

Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai has denied the existence of any personal rift with President Muhammadu Buhari, saying that he still enjoyed his filial-like affinity with him. He however stated that some persons around the president were fanning the embers of discord between them. The people, the governor said that no one within the Presidential Villa, Abuja could stop him …

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged all Nigerians to live together in peace and harmony, in the spirit of Easter. “I urge all Nigerians to live peacefully with one another and do their utmost to make Nigeria a beautiful place to reside”, President Buhari said in a special message signed by him to mark Easter.. Notably, peace was the theme of …

One person lost his life while several houses were destroyed following a heavy down pour in Kura local government area of Kano state. One of the victims, Malam Lawan Salisu, said in Kano on Saturday that the incident happened on Wednesday night. According to him, the rainfall which was accompanied by windstorm blew off the roofs of many houses in …

Forty minutes between campaign stops and a Filet-o-Fish sandwich from McDonald’s cemented Don Benton’s place in Donald Trump’s orbit. The brusque former lawmaker from Washington state remained close to Trump as the campaign intensified, reportedly wielding “an unusual degree” of influence over the Republican nominee. After the election, Benton followed Trump to Washington DC, where he was installed at the …

The Trump era was only two weeks old when Steve Bannon was elevated to the cover of Time magazine, lauded as the Great Manipulator and second most powerful man in the world. By the administration’s 82nd day, the former investment banker and provocative CEO of the rightwing website Breitbart, was facing another momentous headline, based on a New York Post …

The Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, says members of the Northern elite are trying to silence him. Sanusi said this while delivering his speech at the Inaugural Annual Chibok Girls Lecture held in commemoration of the third anniversary of the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok Government Girls Secondary School by terrorists in Borno State. The event, which …

The Inspector General Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, has burst a notorious fraud syndicate, that specialized in defrauding unsuspecting members of the public using fake bank alert. The leader of the syndicate, Ifeanyi Ezewan, a notorious fraudster who is currently being detained at the Kuje Maximum Prison, Abuja from where he was coordinating his operations, was said to have …

While controversy rages over the ownership of $38 million, £27,000 and N23 million discovered by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Wednesday, in a private residence in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigerians have continued to express shock over how such monies would be lying fallow in a house while many suffer hunger and abject poverty. The media had …

In a bizarre twist that got many in government circles expressing shock at the reckless breach of security protocol, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday got a Federal High Court in Lagos to grant a temporary forfeiture of the sums of $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 (totalling $43.6 million or N13.3 billion) belonging to the National Intelligence Agency …