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A former senior operative of the State Security Services (SSS), Dennis Amachree, has claimed that Nigeria’s late military ruler, Sani Abacha, a general, died from a cardiac arrest during an intimate encounter at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, dismissing long-standing conspiracy theories surrounding the former Head of State’s death. Amachree, who served as Assistant Director...

A lightning strike during a heavy rainstorm has killed six children from the same family and left four others injured in Dadiri-Tirgali village, Garum District of Ganye Local Government Area of Adamawa State. According to Daily Trust, the relatives confirmed that the tragedy occurred at about 4 p.m. on Sunday as the victims were harvesting […]

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A UNITED States-based lobbyist, Avon Batten-Montague-York, has submitted decades-old U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) records on alleged drug trafficking involving President Bola Tinubu to the President Donald Trump administration and the U.S. Congress. Avon Batten-Montague-York, who is associated with former Nigeria vice-president Atiku Abubakar, announced the move in a stat...

After WikkiTimes reported in June that the doctorate of Yakubu Adamu, the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) governorship candidate in Bauchi State, came from an institution Cameroon says cannot award one, his camp and the university pointed to foreign partnerships. In this second-part investigation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the body that received IUB’s London ...

THE Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has questioned Femi Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, over his alleged involvement in the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) Gbajabiamila’s lawyer, Jiti Ogunye, confirmed in a statement on Monday that his client honoured the anti-graft...