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Passengers onboard an AirPeace flight were all in a thanksgiving mode on Friday after they survived a terrifying  turbulence while on a Lagos-Enugu bound flight. According to Instagram user @ennie_louiee, the turbulence was so severe,  the oxygen masks in the plane came out. A three-weeks old baby was gasping for air after the plane became stuffy. Read her account of what happened and ...

***Culprits To Face Death Penalty In Ogun, Oyo Lukmon Akintola Lagos The menace of land grabbers in Nigeria has silently sent countless numbers of innocent citizens to early grave. This almost incurable incidence, dates back generations, as landowners popular as ‘Omo Onile’ in the southwestern part of the country would sell a particular piece of land to several buyers eventually ...

The ripples that the mandatory one year National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), programme has caused in Nigeria is well known. This is because several known individuals have been smared due to their none participation and graduation in the scheme. One of the most popular controversies generated by the none observance of the programme remains that of former Minister of Finance, ...

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has explained why there is still no light years after his assumption of office. According to a report by Punch Newspaper, Fashola while speaking at the Nextier Power Dialogue which held in Abuja on Thursday, December 12 absolved the government of President Muhhamadu Bihari of any blame in the power situation of ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi has fixed December 18, for the arraignment of the President of the Nigeria Bar Association, (NBA), Paul Usoro. Usoro was to be arraigned today, Monday, December 10, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), before Justice Muslim Hassan, for allegedly converting and laundering a sum of N1.4bn belonging to the Akwa Ibom ...

The Executive Director, Projects of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NNDC), Tuoyo Omatsuli,  lost properties  worth N1.8bn to the Federal Government on Monday, December 10. Justice Chuka A. Obiozor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos ordered a permanent Forfiets of the property to the Federal Government. The Judge had, on Thursday, May 17, 2018, ordered the interim forfeiture ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has refuted claims that operatives of the commission raided the Abuja home of Atiku Abubakar’s son. Reacting to the claims which has since gone viral on social media, the EFCC said: “we have received several calls and email messages asking us to confirm the arrest of the sons of the Presidential Candidate of ...

More honours and recognition came the way of the Chairman of Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures of Nigeria and Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa as President MuhammaduBuhari named him a member of the Committee that will work out the implementation of autonomy for state Legislature and Judiciary. The Presidency made public the announcement via ...

As part of activities to mark the 2018 World AIDS Day, pay-TV company, StarTimes have called for more support to be given to Nigerians living with the virus across the country.   This was communicated during on the sidelines of the 2018 World AIDS Day commemoration event held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja as it ...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has ordered the police to arrest anyone seen selling any souvenir with his picture and that of his wife. Adeboye gave the order on Friday, December 7th at the annual Holy Ghost Congress of the church holding at the Redemption Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, adding that he ...