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In the final hours of his presidency, Donald Trump has pardoned seventy-three people, including his former adviser, Steve Bannon, who is facing fraud charges. Another seventy people had sentences commuted, ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration today. Rapper Lil Wayne and a former Google engineer, Anthony Levandowski, received a pardon and there were commutations for rapper, […]
Some Nigerian soldiers wounded during encounters with the Boko Haram insurgents in the North East are determined to return to the battlefield until the insurgents are defeated. The soldiers made the pledge yesterday, when the Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, paid a fact-finding visit to the 7 Division Medical Services and Hospital in […]
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mohammed Umar Abba, says the anti-graft agency secured eight hundred and sixty-five convictions from a total of one thousand, three hundred and five cases it filed in courts in 2020. He also announced that a total of seven thousand, three hundred and forty cases were […]
Akwa Ibom State Government has denied accusations by the mother of a student of the Deeper Life Secondary School, Uyo, of abandoning investigations to allegations of sexual abuse in the school. The woman, Deborah Okezie, had also complained of being assaulted by the Commissioner for Education, Dr. Enobong Mboho. However, in a statement Commissioner for […]
Lagos State Government will now take over traffic management in and around Apapa from the Presidential Task Force, in order to restore sanity to the seaport area. Consequently, the government will deploy about five hundred officials of its traffic management authority and personnel of Area B Police Command in Apapa. The presidential task force has since last year been battling the perennial traffic […]
House of Representatives has waded into the plan of the Nigerian Communications Commission to disconnect telephone lines that are not registered with National Identification Numbers in the next two weeks. The Green Chamber at today plenary, asked the Federal Government to extend the deadline for affected telecommunication service subscribers to January 28, 2021. […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden took all five of the votes cast for president in Dixville Notch, a tiny New Hampshire township along the US-Canada border that is among the first places in the country to make its presidential preference known. The ballots were cast in the minutes after midnight, becoming some of the first […]
Nigeria Army is insisting that soldiers did not shoot at protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate area of Lagos State. In a statement, the Acting Deputy Director, 81 Division, Army Public Relations, Osoba Olaniyi, however said soldiers were deployed to ‘restore normalcy’ in the area. Olaniyi described reports of a massacre by the […]
Governor Udom Emmanuel and wife Martha were among the high profile Guests at the Seventieth birthday celebration of Senator Helen Esuene and Unveiling of her Biography at Ibom Hotels and Golf Resort, Uyo. Governor Emmanuel congratulated Senator Helen Esuene for joining the league of senior citizens and eulogized her passion for humanity and charity to […]
The suit filed by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu against President Muhammadu Buhari has been thrown out by the ECOWAS Court of Justice. The IPOB leader had alleged torture, assault, inhuman treatment and the violation of his property rights by the Federal government, demanding eight hundred million dollars compensation. Delivering […]
