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Retired Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, a former Chairman of ICPC, on Thursday urged the two anti-graft bodies ICPC and EFCC to develop new strategies in combating corruption in Nigeria.

Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Senator Audu Ogbeh and 16 others have been ‎inaugurated as members of the 19-man transition committee set up by the president-elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari.

Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather amped up the anticipation for their blockbuster bout, feting fans on Tuesday before they get down to the final, serious preparations for Saturday’s welterweight showdown. Boxing’s latest “Fight of the Century” — between two fighters reckoned the best pound-for-pound of their generation — has been more than five years in the making. But as fight-week swung into high gear, tensions between the camps were evident as Filipino icon Pacquiao and unbeaten American Mayweather made public bows at separate venues. “So many different sponsors and networks came together to make this big event happen — I think we both should have been here,” Mayweather said after Pacquiao opted out of the “grand arrival” at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Pacquiao Pacquiao instead greeted fans down the street at Mandalay Bay. The several hundred who attended his rally were far outnumbered by the thousands who turned out for Mayweather at the venue that will host the fig

President-elect Gen. Buhari says he never gave the directive to anyone to bar AIT from covering his activities. In a statement released this evening and signed by the Director of Publicity for the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Garba Shehu, Gen Buhari said this is the era of change and that he along with his staff will ensure they do not make the same mistakes the outgoing government made.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State on Wednesday withdrew the suit before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja seeking to stop the All Progressive Congress (APC) members in the Ekiti state House of Assembly from impeaching him and his deputy, Kolapo Olusola.

Spanish capital city clubs Atletico Madric and Real Madrid have refuted claims that they are about to be served a transfer ban by FIFA in light of local media’s reports.

BALTIMORE— Many people were enraged when President Barack Obama used the word "thugs" to describe the rioters who looted stores in Baltimore.

Bieber also posted a thinly-veiled hint about working on the film on his Facebook Monday.

Think tanks vary a lot, from small organizations with just a few folks and no offices to the large political pundit powerhouses (Brookings, Cato, AEI, CAP) with hundreds of staff, some who show up on your TV every Sunday, to more neutral research centers (RAND, Pew). There are probably many

NASA has successfully tested a shape-changing wing design that could do away with the conventional flaps seen on commercial airliners.

The principal suspect in the kidnap of a teenager, who was taken to Libya for prostitution last year, Kelvin Okorie, said yesterday that he gave his cousin out after taking N10,000 from the suspected traffickers.

…As NNPC blames fuel scarcity on NARTO, PTD strike A day after the expiration of the three-day deadline given by Major Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, to stop lifting petroleum products due to debts owed them by the Federal Government, fuel scarcity has hit Lagos and environs.

President Goodluck Jonathan, has appointed Mr Bassey Okon Akpanyung, as the secretary to the National Planning Commission (NPC).

LONDON — Anyone who's caught a glimpse into one of London Underground's dark corridors knows there are a lot of gloomy parts of the network untouched by commuters and tourists underneath the city.

Workers in the state of Kogi have to tighten their belts. The state government told it cuts their salary nearly in half – by 40 per cent. The Kogi state government has to cut workers’ salary by 40 per cent. This measure is the cause of the decreasing federal allocation, with N1.2 billion reducing from March to April. The state received the sum of N3.7 billion from federal budget in March, while in April it got only N2.5 billion, while the monthly wage bill is N3.2 billion.

According to a report by Reuters, the Chibok schoolgirls abducted from their school dormitories by Boko Haram militants in April 2014 are not among the nearly 300 girls and women rescued in an operation by the Nigerian Army.

Consigned to fate and journeying towards execution by firing squad, the four Nigerains and 4 other nationals convicted of drug-related charges in Indonesia, delved into a rendition of popular hymn “Amazing Grace”.

Two Senior Advocates of Nigeria have disagreed with President-elect Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to ban the Africa Independent Television (AIT) network from covering his activities until they sort out “issues of standard and ethics”.

The Niger Delta Salvation Group, on Tuesday, advised President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, to resist the temptation of scrapping any of the interventionist programmes including the amnesty programme, initiated by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua.

  Five people have been confirmed dead at the Tao FM radio station in Kuroko, Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State.The community radio station was bombed by some unknown gunmen at about 8pm on Monday. An eyewitness who spoke to our Lokoja correspondent on telephone said that the bombers entered the premises of the radio station pretending to come for commercial purpose and were allowed access by the security guard. He said after gaining access to the building they headed straight to the operation room were they threw the explosive inside the building, killing five people – the security men and the Chief Engineer. The Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ogunjemilusi, who confirmed the incident, however said that he could not confirm the number of casualties at the time. He stated that there was dynamite explosion on the part of the building housing the station. He added that security had been beefed up in the area while investigation was on going. The Chairman of t

    A former NDDC Commissioner has been convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Akwa Ibom State High court for stealing 56 transformers meant for oil producing communities in the state. Pastor Godwin Moffat Eyo is a former Commissioner representing Akwa Ibom State on the board of the intervention agency, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

Google is investing €150 million ($163 million) in a new fund to support newspaper publishers and other journalism organisations in Europe.

A 35-year-old Kaduna-born cyclist and supporter of the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, Mohammed Kabiru Jafaru, yesterday embarked on a journey to meet with the vice president-elect, Prof Yemi Osibajo, in Lagos State. 

ABUJA—President-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari may have just started a revenge mission on the African Independent Television, AIT when, yesterday, the security men attached to him barred the station’s correspondent, Tinabeso Bebei from covering Buhari’s functions.

The family of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Oseni recently discovered the corpses of two of their children, David Oseni, 6, and Shedrack, 4, inside their parents’ deep-freezer, used for their ‘iced block’ business.

Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard has been named the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Player of the Year.

World’s leading sports brand, NIKE, who signed a kitting contract with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) last week Thursday, in London, has revealed that it will supply kits to the nation’s national teams to the value of $750,000 in the first year of the $3.75m three-and-a-half-year contract.

The South African government has criticised the Nigerian government for what it calls Nigeria’s decision to recall its ambassador over the xenophobic attacks.

The Senate President, David Mark and the Speaker of the House of Representatives have urged newly elected members of the House of Representatives and Senate to put the country first, as they prepare to join the 8th Assembly in the law making processes.

Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant Kenneth Minimah, has denied media reports that troops sent to Sambisa forest in Borno State have retreated due to deadly mines planted by the Boko Haram insurgents.

A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed May 26 to rule on whether there is still live issue in the suit challenging the emergence of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded governorship poll in Sokoto State.

President Goodluck Jonathan has order the immediate release to public the full report of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Forensic Audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) accounts in respect of the alleged missing $20 billion.

Ermm……..normally I don’t write on stuff like this but the truth is, I believe this is just pure entertainment; a new way to become famous and get attention.

Posted by: Haliwud  Very energetic pop star, Terry G says he was overwhelmed with joy when his baby mama Mimi Omoregbe told him she was pregnant.

A mother who poisoned her five-year-old son to drive traffic to her blog has been jailed for 20 years on Wednesday for killing him. Read more from Nigerian Monitor:

                                                                          You could almost hear the jaws drop on Wall Street in January after Apple reported selling a staggering 74.5 million iPhones and earning a record $18 billion in profit during the holiday quarter.

US Daily Beast profiled APC leader Bola Tinubu in an article titled 'Nigeria's Next Leader's Ties to a Heroin Ring' where they described Tinubu as a 'heroin kingpin'. Tinubu will not like this. Read below

The South African government has said on Monday that it will release the names of foreign nationals killed in the attacks on foreigners by its citizens.

President-Elect Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday said his administration would probe the claim by a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and now the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation failed to remit $20bn oil money to the federation account.

As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) groans its loss at the recent presidential election, Special Adviser to the President, Political Affairs, Prof. Rufai Ahmed Alkali, yesterday urged party members not to lose hope, describing the outcome of the 2015 general election as a temporary setback.

Queen Elizabeth is now the 302nd wealthiest person in Britain, according to the Sunday Times. Image: Kirsty Wigglesworth/Associated Press LONDON — The Queen has fallen out of the Sunday Times' annual rich list for the first time. Her wealth may have grown by £10 million over the past year, but it's not enough to keep her in the countdown of the 300 richest people in Britain, thanks to a dramatic increase in the country's billionaires.

ABUJA— Investigations into the circumstances of an alleged $20 billion missing from the coffers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, will be a priority for the incoming administration, the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), said yesterday. Receiving a delegation of political stakeholders from Adamawa State, Buhari also expressed shock at the treatment of the military by the outgoing Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government, describing it as among the worst atrocities of the party on the nation. Buhari, at the event, also reaffirmed his campaign promise to make the economy, security and corruption as the major agenda of his incoming administration.     Presidfent-elect, Buhari The delegation of stakeholders from Adamawa State, led by the Governor-elect, Senator Jibrilla Bindow, comprised Senators-elect, House of Representatives members-elect and other political chieftains from the North-East states.