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BY DAPO SAALAMI IBADAN A call has gone to prominent Nigerian leaders to quickly intervene in the crisis between President Mohammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the interest and growth of Nigeria. It would be recalled that before the just-concluded elections in the country there has been character …

The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has said that there are better days ahead for the business community in Nigeria, despite the elections ongoing in the country. Dangote said there is a lot happening in Nigeria, and elections did not deter his companies from investing in the country. …

Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn left his Tokyo detention centre on Wednesday March 6, 2019 after more than 100 days in custody, following a surprise court decision granting him bail of one billion yen ($9 million). Ghosn left the detention centre in northern Tokyo flanked by guards, wearing a blue …

An estimated 1,863 Nigerians who came to Russia last year for the FIFA World Cup are still on the loose in the country, more than two months after their Fan IDs expired. Dozens of them, who were young women have been forced into prostitution by the traffickers who brought them …

BY FORTUNE ABANG The French Embassy in Nigeria on Tuesday March 19, 2019 said the country was set to host the biggest French dinner in Nigeria. Ms Damilola Ayodeji, the Press Officer/ Attaché of the French Embassy in Nigeria, said in a statement that the dinner, scheduled to hold on Thursday, was part …

The Federal High Court in Asaba has overruled the Jones Erue-led executive committee of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta State and nullified candidates fielded by the faction of the party for 2019 elections. In its judgment, the court, presided over by Justice Toyin Adegoke, upheld the Cyril Ogodo-led …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday March 13, 2019 re-arraigned a  former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank PLC, Erastus Akingbola in a Federal High Court in Lagos, for alleged Money Laundering. He is facing an amended 22 count charge bordering on money laundering and he had …

Cyclone Idai caused more havoc than initially reported as Mozambique said over a thousand people may have been killed as the cyclone smashed into the central part of the country. In neighbouring Zimbabwe, Idai left 89 dead and at least 150 more missing. The city of Beira in central Mozambique …

Alan Krueger, a prominent Princeton University Economics Professor who advised U.S. former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, took his own life over the weekend, his family said in a statement on Monday March 18, 2019. He was 58. The statement did not elaborate about the circumstances of Krueger’s death, …

As many as 100 children and many others were feared trapped on Wednesday March 13, 2019 after a building containing a primary school collapsed in Ita-Faaji, Lagos Island. At the scene a boy of 10 was being pulled from the rubble covered in dust, but with no visible injuries, a …