Saudi Arabia has given the four children of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s children “million-dollar houses” and “monthly five-figure payments” as compensation for the killing of their father, the Washington Post reported. The kingdom is trying to come to a long-term understanding with the Khashoggi family members to encourage them toContinue Reading
A fifth man is fighting for his life after a being stabbed while walking down a road in north London. Police said they have not yet formally linked the attack to a series of stabbings that took place over the weekend, but they said the ‘location and manner’ of theContinue Reading
Nigerians were yesterday go a reassured by President Muhammadu Buhari that they should expect the best in the next dispensation. The President promised to use his second term in office to take the country to loftier heights, even as he appreciated those who voted for him. Buhari spoke when membersContinue Reading
Crude oil price climbed more than one per cent with United States crude hitting a 2019 high yesterday after tight supply and positive signs for the global economy drove both benchmarks’ largest first-quarter gains in nearly a decade. The price of the US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was up 85Continue Reading
The All Progressives Congress has said the clarification by its national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole that the party has no adopted political party and candidates in Rivers state did not amount to a power tussle between him and the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. Oshiomhole made the declaration on the heelsContinue Reading
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Tuesday resumed collation of result of Rivers State governorship poll. The commission had suspended the process on March 10, 2019, due to the widespread disruption of elections and violence in Polling Units and Collation Centres. However, the electoral umpire on Sunday named seventeenContinue Reading
The Police in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) say they have arrested five Nigerians who “stormed a money exchange in Sharjah and fled with Dh2.3 million”. According to Dubai-based newspaper Khaleej Times, the men barged into the exchange and smashed the glass barrier between the customers and the staff, stoleContinue Reading
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State says he is confident that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will issue a Certificate of Return to him as the Senator-elect for Imo West Senatorial District. Okorocha expressed this optimism while speaking with State House Correspondents after a private meeting with President MuhammaduContinue Reading
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on has urged the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to purge itself of “bad eggs and hypocrites,” whom he said, lacked commitment to return the opposition party to its lost glory. Obasanjo rued that many of the PDP leaders are still preoccupied with what ministers to “theirContinue Reading
HOUSE of Representatives Leader Femi Gbajabiamila yesterday announced his plan to run for Speaker. The lawmaker, representing Surulere I Federal Constituency, Lagos State, said in Abuja that he was joining the race as a “beacon of hope”. The fifth-term House member, who is of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC),Continue Reading
