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Olubadan high chiefs yesterday, paid the 91-year-old monarch homage at his Popoyemoja, Ibadan palace. The reconciliatory moves within the traditional institutions in Oyo State embarked upon by the governor, Seyi Makinde, yesterday received a boost as the Olubadan high chiefs paid the 91-year-old monarch homage at his Popoyemoja, Ibadan palace without beaded crowns. Among the nine high chiefs, six were present at the palace. Those absent included the Osi Olubadan, Senator Rashidi Ladoja; Asipa Balogun, Lateef Gbadamosi Adebimpe; and Ekerin Olubadan, Biodun Kola Daisi. They were said to have earlier…

Festus Keyamo, the Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, has refuted allegations of being involved in fraudulent activities with a suspected internet scammer, Jerry Elo Ikogho, one of the 78 Nigerians indicted in the massive financial fraud case uncovered by the American agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI. A photo surfaced on Sunday that had both the minister and the suspect smiling and seemingly have a good time. Speaking on the matter, Keyamo agreed to knowing Ikogho but quickly pointed out that they were only childhood friends. His words:…

Oil and gas pipeline vandalism has risen by 77 per cent in June this year. This was made known by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday. The newly released June edition of the corporation’s Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR) showed that 106 pipeline points were breached as against the 60 points vandalised the preceding month. NNPC’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamdu, explained that the Aba-Enugu axis in the system 2E pipeline corridor accounted for 25 per cent of the total pulverised points, while the…

A statement by the rearrested kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Wadume, that the party paid him N13m for the 2019 presidential election has been refuted by the All Progressives Congress. Wadume was rearrested in Kano and paraded on Tuesday by detectives at the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja. He has been in the middle of rife between the Nigerian Army and the Nigeria Police over the murder of three police operatives and two civilians by soldiers in Ibi town, Taraba State. Some soldiers at the 93 Battalion Takum, Taraba State, had reportedly…

The federal government of Nigeria has been slammed with $9bn in damages for letting down its 201 million residents by failing to complete a gas supply and production agreement that would have transformed their lives. Instead, the country will now have to pay $9bn (£7.4bn) in penalties or risk having its assets seized. According to the published report, the accusation is being levied at Nigeria by lawyers representing Process and Industrial Developments Ltd (P&ID), a gas supply and engineering company, following a UK court ruling that paves the way for…

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has asked his members to disgrace and arrest President Muhammadu Buhari in Japan today. This is coming few days after members of his group gave former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu the beating of his life in faraway Germany. The threat followed an announcement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina that the President would travel to Japan today to participate in the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development. Kanu, in a statement circulated…