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Mr Stephen Orlu, the Chairman, Abali Park, a chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), in Rivers, has called for the closure of illegal motor parks in Port Harcourt. Orlu told newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday that the indiscriminate establishment of motor parks at...

Nations Sport can report that before Wednesday’s crucial Semi-final match against the Sudan Each of the CHAN Eagles received $8,000 only being payment of their match bonuses for the ongoing tournament in Morocco. Each player is entitle to $2000 win bonus per game and the team’s Media Officer...

Bitto has been summoned to the diary room after making advances on Princess without her consent. The show this season has continued to live up to it’s theme “Double Wahala” as several controverises have continued to ensue less than two days after it began. Earlier this morning, romance was …...

A 25-year-old commercial bus driver, John Okoye, who allegedly drove recklessly, causing his conductor to fall off the vehicle and die, was on Monday brought before an Ojo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Okoye, who resides at Adensin Street, Igando, a Lagos suburb, is facing a charge of...

The Borno Government has banned vehicular movement on three major roads in the state due to the ongoing military clearance operation against the Boko Haram insurgents. Dr Bukar Bulama, the Commissioner of Home Affairs, Information and Culture Affairs, made the announcement on Monday in a...

Fine boy’ Cristiano Ronaldo says he is still impressed with what he sees on the mirror despite the facial injury he got last week. The Real Madrid star who is not only concerned about playing but also marketing himself said he is still handsome’ after sustaining a facial via The Nation...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has intervened in the Retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) of the inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market to the tune of 304.4 million dollars. The Bank’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr Isaac Okorafor, in a statement in Abuja on...

The storm ignited by former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s “special statement” in which he castigated the Muhammadu Buhari administration is yet to subside. The reactions have been mixed, with some people hailing him and others knocking him for advising the president not to run for a second term...

Former water resources minister Sarah Ochekpe and two others on Monday appeared before a Jos Federal High Court over alleged money laundering involving N450 million. Ochekpe, who was arraigned by the EFCC, appeared along with Mr Raymond Dabo, former PDP Chairman in Plateau, and Evangelist...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his wife, Bola took to the dance floor to celebrate his PhD degree. Watch the video below… http://thenationonlineng.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/27065654_161162614519927_6472250097114546176_n.mp4 The post Video: Obasanjo shows his dancing skills at his...

EFCC traces N3.12b meant to protect dams, wells to his company’s account •Agency investigates release of N10b for 2015 governorship poll The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced N3.12billion to the bank account of a company allegedly owned by a Special Assistant to a former...

Member representing Egor/Ikpoba Okha Federal Constituency, Honourable Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayinma and former gubernatorial aspirant, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), who at the weekend decamped to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, have said that...

The Presidency has frowned at media reports criticising the appointment of the new Director-General of National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Mr Ahmed Rufa’i. A statement issued in Abuja on Saturday by Mr Abiodun Oladunjoye, Deputy Director (Information), Media Unit of the State House, quoted Malam...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday attributed the current poverty in the country on choices made by its leaders. He warned that hard choices must therefore be taken by leaders, to break the poverty cycle, including having to step on toes when necessary. He spoke at the 7th...

Hearing in the case filed by wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, was stalled at the Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday because her witness was “sick.” Mrs. Jonathan is seeking to unfreeze her accounts containing $15.5million frozen by the Economic and Financial Crimes...

Former Super Eagles captain Nwankwo Kanu has alerted to plans to take over his Hardley Suites on Victoria Island, Lagos. He said although the matter is in court, an agency is about to “forcibly seize” the property. A statement yesterday by Kanu, the initiator of the Kanu Heart Foundation, …...

A mid-day fire on Thursday gutted the official residence of the Imo State Deputy governor, Eze Madumere, at the Commissioners quarters in Owerri. The fire, which started at 1:30 p.m. completely razed the bush bar and bus assigned to the press unit in the Deputy governor’s convoy, as well …...

Alliance for Nigerian Students against Neo-liberal attacks (ANSA) on Tuesday expressed their displeasure against the inclusion of Chief Mike Ozekhome as a contributor during the 14th Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture held at the Ikeja Airport Hotel, Lagos. This protest which occurred while Professor...

EFCC ‘not probing Kyari’ WHO sent some security agents to the home of the President’s Chief of Staff (COS), Mr. Abba Kyari, on January 7? That was the poser raised in intelligence circles yesterday amid indication of a fresh plot to remove Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Acting …...

Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Mr. Udom Emmanuel has reiterated that the unity of Akwa Ibom state is non-negotiable. The governor who made the remarks shortly after swearing in the new Secretary to State Government, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem at the Banquet Hall of the Government House Uyo said he …...