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Collation of results from various polling units is now at the wards level before the final stop at the INEC office of Gwagwalada for announcement by the returning officer. According to DailyTrust, during the close of counting at various polling units visited, Mustapha Adamu of APGA and Abubakar...

The Federal Executive Council will meet in emergency today over the 2016 budget details submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari by the National Assembly yesterday, DailyTrust gathered. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu disclosed to source...

Two cooks working at the Federal Government College in Akure, the Ondo State capital, are now in police net for allegedly using the sanitary pads used by female students for rituals. The suspects were caught by some students of the college after the suspects took used sanitary pads of some...

The Nigeria army has reacted to a story on the attack on GOC on shortage of water and food supply for the soldiers confronting the deadly terrorists in Alargano, Borno state. The statement reads: “The attention of the Nigerian Army was drawn to a news story on the online page of Daily Trust...

There was a mild drama at a suburb of the FCT, Abuja over the weekend as a man suspected to have ‘stolen’ another man’s manhood at a popular market in Madalla was beaten to stupor by irate mob. The unidentified suspect, who came from Suleja, was said to have alighted from an unmarked vehicle...

Since the establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) in 2003, high profile cases have been piling up, with many as old as the agency itself. Daily Trust dusted some of them off and took a look. Peter Odili Former governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, had a rough...

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with seven governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The governors include Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Kashim Shettima (Borno), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Ibrahim Gaidam (Yobe) and...

The federal government owes 16 states the sum of N580.5 billion for the various rehabilitation works carried out on some federal roads in their territories. The revelation was made at the public hearing of the joint House of Representatives committees on works and finance chaired by...

Daily Trust newspaper has gathered that the National Assembly management has requested the presiding officers to reduce the number of their aides by at least 60 percent as part of cost cutting measures. According to source, Senate President Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state yesterday reacted to the diversion of N2bn bailout funds by government officials, as claimed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC has last week arrested three government appointees: Principle Secretary to the Governor, Dr. Pascal...

A 35-year-old prostitute, simply identified as Ome Enyi, a native of Cross River State, who lived at the brothel for more than a year was found dead in the early hours of Tuesday in a brothel in Kubwa, Abuja. City News learnt that a man, yet to be identified, lodged in the brothel the previous...

John Achala, the acting chairman of the APC said that Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers state has been pleading with key APC stalwarts in the state and at national level to clear way for him to leave the PDP and join them. Speaking with the Daily Trust yesterday at the party’s secretariat in...

A Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday sentenced three labourers to two months imprisonment each for stealing 67 tubers of yam. According to DailyTrust, the convicts, Aminu Ahmadu, 25, Isiaka Hassan, 21, and Sani Isah, 25, all residents of Kapwa village, Airport road, Abuja, were convicted under...

The National Youth Service Corp NYSC has resolved to deploy corps members to the North East for the one year mandatory service year, especially Gombe state, its Director General Brig-Gen Johnson Bamidele Olawunmi has said. Olawuni said: "you will agree with me that insurgency has been reduced...

The Senate Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has recommended the suspension of Senator Kabiru Marafa (APC, Zamfara Central) over his support for statement of a former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the National Assembly is corrupt, DailyTrust gathered. The Senate had penultimate Tuesday...

Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka, the founder and spiritual director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN) has revealed his recent encounter with President Muhammadu Buhari and what transpired between him and Mrs. Patience Jonathan when she visited his ministry ahead of the 2015 general elections and...

Customs operatives attached to the Tin-Can Island port command of the Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS), have intercepted a cache of arms and ammunition allegedly being smuggled into the country by criminally minded importers. The Customs Area Comptroller, (CAC) of the command, Mr. Yusuf Bashar...

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has shut out big wigs of the All Progressives Party from the U.J. Esuene Stadium in Calabar. According to Daily Trust, the venue was billed to host the grand reception today of former members of the Peoples Democratic Party, crossing over formally to the...

The Senate committee on Interior, today, rejected the sum of N130 budgeted for the feeding of each of the inmates in prisons across the country. The revelation was made when Minister of Interior, Retired General Abdulrahaman Dambazzau appeared before members of the Senate Committee on Interior...

The present administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari has said it is committed to fighting corruption and ‘cleaning the rot’ left by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Buhari commissioned a panel to investigate how billions of dollars meant for the procurement of arms deal disappeared...