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Maigari who arrived Abuja early Friday with a depleted Super Eagles team and members of his board from Brazil where the Eagles played their final match with France on Monday was immediately invited into a waiting police vehicle and taken to an unknown destination for questioning.The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Aminu Maigari, was whisked away by security operatives on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja yesterday. Maigari who arrived Abuja early Friday with a depleted Super Eagles team and members of his board from Brazil where the Eagles played their final match with France on Monday was immediately invited into a waiting police vehicle and taken to an unknown destination for questioning. However, the Secretary General of the NFF, Musa Amadu denied that the incident was an arrest, instead he claims that Maigari was only invited for a chat, cautioning that the situation shouldn’t be blown out of proportion. The secretary did not discuss th...

A soldier was allegedly killed by a BRT bus. Soldiers are on a rampage along Ikorodu Road in Lagos destroying BRT buses, residents have said. The soldiers’ actions was said to be caused by a BRT bus that allegedly run a soldier over at the Palmgrove bus stop killing him.

THE casualty figure from the recent Emab mall bomb blast in Abuja has risen to 24 following the death of three more victims on admission in hospitals. Two of the victims died at the National Hospital while the other died at Maitama District Hospital. The rise in the number of the dead persons was confirmed by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr Demola Onakomaiya, on Thursday. Also, the Nigerian Tribune gathered that the FCT Administration was already liaising with appropriate security agencies towards re-opening of the plaza to normal business activities, days after business owners faced challenges having access to their facility. Owing to the planned re-opening, it was gathered that owners and managers of the ever-busy shopping plaza have been given standard security requirements to be put in place before the plaza could be re-opened. This was so as the administration stood by its earlier directive for the strengthening of securi...

FOLLOWING the purported abduction letters sent to three government secondary schools in Nasarawa State by members of Islamist group, Boko Haram, students of one of the affected schools, on Thursday, fled their hostels, for fear of being abducted by the insurgents. A visit by the Nigerian Tribune to Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Lafia, showed that many students had left their hostels, while others were seen with their belongings, heading towards the main road to board vehicles to their respective homes, despite the downpour. Some students who did not want their names in print told the Nigerian Tribune that “many have left today and we are waiting for our friends so that we can leave together before Boko Haram people will come to the school.” At the time of filing this report, stern-looking mobile policemen had taken over the school premises.  Sources said the security operatives had been stationed on the premises since Thursday morning, to forestall any in...

THE national conference, on Thursday, approved the creation of 18 additional states across the country, as a way of meeting the yearning and aspirations of the people. The conference also resolved that the office of the President of Nigeria shall now rotate between the North and South and revolve among the six geopolitical zones of the country. Delegates also agreed that the office of the state governors shall be rotated among the three senatorial districts of each state, while that of the local government chairmen shall be rotated within the local government areas. The resolutions were arrived at during the plenary, while considering reports of the committee on political restructuring and forms of government. The delegates also said the six geopolitical zones should be enshrined in the constitution of the country. They rejected the proposal that the president should run for a single term of six years and favoured the present arrangement...

Lil Wayne explains his Jay-Z shout out on his “D’usse” track. Weezyyy, you’ve got some explaining to do. And  Lil Wayne  does just that in a recent interview with  MTV . Wayne explains his  Jay-Z  name drop on one of his tracks “D’usse”. “D’usse” is a track named after Jay’s cognac brand a midst the other tracks Wayne has released during his #CarterVSeason. Tunechi even shouts out the rapper on the track saying, “Hov, fuck wit’ ya boy.” The  Young Money  rapper says “D’usse” is just like all of his other music, improvised and pretty spur-of-the-moment. We all know Wayne is notorious for saying just what comes to his mind. “Hov is the god,” said Weezy, “I’ll give Hov a big shout out at all times… We was just on that D’usse heavy. I don’t write none of my music, what I mean by that is I don’t write it down, so I just go in there and say whatever come to my mind… So what came to my mind that night, was what was on my mind that night.”

Could we expect  Nicki Minaj  to be on  Wiz Khalifa ‘s upcoming album  Blacc Hollywood ? Due to some social media lurking, we figured this might be poosible. The album is set to drop August 19th and Wiz let out some information about it via.twitter.The artist is also set to go on the under influence tour soon with  Ty Dolla $ign , S age The Gemeni ,  Rich Homie Quan,   Mack Wilds ,  Iamsu , and  Dj Drama . Tickets go on sale today, go purchase them.