A man who allegedly worked as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard has been detained in Tunisia as part of a terrorism probe after his expulsion from Germany, a prosecution spokesman said Saturday. Known as Sami A. by German authorities and Sami Idoudi in his home country, the Tunisian “has been taken into custody following a judicial decision […]

The People Democratic Party (PDP) has asked for the forgiveness of Former President Olusegun Obasanjo over ‘‘bad conduct and mistreatment,’’, Obasanjo’s Media Aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, has revealed. Akinyemi made this known to newsmen in a statement issued in Abeokuta, on Saturday. According to him, Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the PDP, who led 21 other delegates of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) on […]

This was revealed in a confirmation statement addressed to the President of Nigeria Para Powerlifting Federation, Queen Uboh. The statement was issued by Jorge Moreno, the Senior Manager of the International Paralympic Committee. The statement read, “World Para Powerlifting would like to thank the Nigeria Paralympic Committee and the Nigeria Para Powerlifting Federation for their application to […]

A former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, has lambasted the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for failing to live up to its promises to Nigerians. Gana, therefore, declared his intention to run for the Presidency. The former minister said this in Abuja on Thursday while addressing journalists and supporters at the national secretariat of the […]

The newly enlarged German Interior Ministry plans to expand its consultations with the Muslim Community as part of the Annual Islamic Conference format. “We have to be much stronger than before in placing at the centre of our Islamic Conference the diversity of our not-yet-organised fellow Muslim citizens in Germany,’’ the secretary of state at […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday communicated his decision to withhold assent to four bills to the National Assembly. At the House of Representatives, the presidential decision was contained in a letter read to members by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara, at the start of the day’s proceedings. The bills are the “Corporate Manslaughter Bill, 2018”; […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said policemen deployed in the state for the governorship election stormed the pavilion where the Peoples Democratic Party was holding their rally and harassed him. The governor, who emerged with a neck brace narrated his ordeal and asked supporters of the party to remain resolute and vote for his […]

Ten ships carrying various products are at Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports waiting to berth, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) said on Wednesday in Lagos. It said three of the vessels contained petrol, while the remaining seven would berth with aviation fuel, uria, diesel and bulk fertiliser. It stated that 20 other ships carrying buckwheat, […]

The House of Representatives today, during its plenary session called for an investigation into the constitutional compliance of all subsidiary legislation and executive orders by the executive arm of government. According to the motion, sponsored by Hon. Nicholas Ossai, and supported by 27 other lawmakers, the Executive Order number 6 of 2018, signed by President […]

The former leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) led by the New CAF 1st Vice President, Amaju Melvin Pinnick has refuted claims of corruption leveled against it and insisted that it has no formal invitation to face any anti-corruption agency. It will be recalled that A former national football coach, James Peters, had last week petitioned the Economic and […]