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President Bola Ahmed excited as UN grants sovereignty of about 16,300 square kilometres of additional new maritime territory to Nigeria

News

Tinubu excited as Nigeria acquires new ‘rich’ maritime territory

‘’When the HPPC briefed former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2022 on the status of the project, the United Nations Commission…
JAMB

Education, News

JAMB releases additional 36,540 UTME results

Recall that at the release of the 2024 UTME, the Board had announced that some results had been withheld as…
ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, expresses concern over high number of first-class graduates being churned out by private universities

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ASUU issues fresh ultimatum to FG on governing councils, others

Osodeke who said that the union had rejected all the ongoing illegalities and flagrant violation of university autonomy in public…
Paramount ruler of Ibaa, Rivers State, Nwobodo Jonah, says death toll from explosion at illegal refinery in his community may rise above 30

News

Explosion rocks Shell gas plant in x Bayelsa

The gas plant feeds the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) export terminal in Bonny Island, Rivers. A community source said…
Niger Assembly Speaker Abdulmalik Sarkin-daji withdraws support support for the controversial marriage of 100 orphans in his constituency.

News

Why I was involved in marriage of 100 orphans – Niger Speaker

Addressing a press conference on Tuesday in Minna, Sarking-daji said the purported story was untrue and mere speculations. “I didn’t…
Kano government hails judgment of the Court of Appeal validating the Local Government election conducted in the state some months ago

News

Kano governor Yusuf empowers 5,200 women with N50,000 each

The beneficiaries were 200 women from each of the eight metropolitan Local Government Areas of the state, and 100 women…
NSCDC operatives arrest nine suspected burglars who were plotting to burgle a Polythene bag-making company in Kano

Metro

NSCDC operatives arrest 9 for plotting to burgle Kano company

The Public Relations Officer of NSCDC, Kano Command, SC Ibrahim Idris Abdullahi, said in a statement, that their arrests were…
Adedayo urges Nigerians to give President time to salvage nation

News

Tinubu strong, determined to put Nigeria on right track – Cleric

According to Adeosun, the situation in the country had gone so bad and seemed irredeemable, noting that steps taken so…
Wike

Headlines

Fubara cries out over ‘huge debt burden’ inherited from Wike

Fubara who spoke during the inauguration of the Aleto-Ogale-Ebubu-Eteo Road, also known as Old Bori Road in Eleme Local Government…
Court fixes date for judgment in suits seeking to refrain ex-PDP Chairman Uche Secondus, 2 others from attending the party’s meetings.

Politics

PDP crisis: Court fixes date for judgments in suits against Secondus, 2 others

Three PDP members in Rivers had filed three separate suits against Secondus; sacked Governor of Rivers, Celestine Omehia, and former…
Ex-Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, has been appointed chair of Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina despite his ongoing N2.7bn fraud trial

Headlines

Alleged N8bn fraud: Court fixes date for arraignment of Sirika, brother on fresh charges

In the fresh eight-count charge, EFCC had alleged that Sirika conferred an unfair advantage upon Enginos Nigeria Limited, whose alter…
Mr Matthew Omonade a member of Delta House of Assembly representing Ughelli North I has been suspended over alleged gross misconduct.

News

Delta assembly suspends lawmaker over alleged gross misconduct

Omonade was suspended sequel to a motion of urgent importance moved by the Majority Leader, Mr Emeka Nwaobi (PDP-Aniocha North).…
defilement

Metro

Badagry man Joseph Gamor docked for defiling 13-year-old daughter

The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Ayodele Adeosun told the court that Gamor, who lives at the back of Golden GLO Bus…
Edo AGF, others face imprisonment over disobedience to court judgment

Metro

Makurdi woman docked for assaulting, robbing police officer

The Police Prosecutor, Insp Inedu Friday, told the court that the case was reported by one PC Akor Success, an…
Confluence University of Science and Technology

News

Kogi govt confirms rescue of 6 more abducted varsity students

Kogi Commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Fanwo, made this known in a statement on Tuesday. The students were whisked…
5 killed, 3 injured as gunmen attack forest guards’ office in Kaduna community

Politics

Gunmen kidnap Dangote cement workers in Edo

An anonymous source in Okpella community who confirmed the incident, disclosed that the gunmen laid ambush on the workers, emerged…
Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi

News

Why Peter Obi visited Atiku, Saraki, Lamido – Aide

Worried about the state of the nation and the increasing uncertainty in the living conditions of the poor and underprivileged,…
Kano Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Gumel says over 400 inmates are languishing in prisons in the state due to improper documentation.

News

Over 400 inmates stuck in Kano prisons due to improper records – CP Gumel

According to him: "There are over 400 inmates languishing in the Central Correctional Centre due to various reasons amongst which…
Nigeria

News

My column based on manipulated statement of Tinubu – Farooq Kperogi

Kperogi said: "He ( Tinubu) did utter those words, but the context was intentionally distorted with intent to deceive. Ironically,…
NDLEA sets up special squads for dislodgement of notorious drug joints, arrest of drug dealers, seizure of drugs, others in FCT.

News

NDLEA sets up special squads to tackle drug dealers in Abuja

Tsakuba said the FCT was unique because it had an international airport where some flights come directly from drug source…
Adeboye

Top Stories

Pastor Adeboye: What happened to billionaires who queried me about their hefty tithes

Pastor Adeboye, in a video trending online, revealed how the four billionaires in the RCCG Church had written to him…
Lagos Traffic Laws

News

Sanwo-Olu pays outstanding pension contributions of LWC staff/retirees

.. LWC now fully compliant with the State’s Pension Commission. Lagos governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has paid all outstanding unremitted pension…
Administrators evacuate students from four schools, call police in Jaipur, India on Monday after receiving bomb threats

World News

Students in 4 schools evacuated in India following bomb threats

On Sunday, Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi and several hospitals in the national capital received bomb threats over emails.…
NSCDC

News

NSCDC Commandant jailed 5 years over employment scam

In the case filed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC at the Katsina State High…
Court convicts mother of five Ramat Mercy Mba of forging the signature of ex-President Buhari’s CoS, late Abba Kyari to carry out job scams.

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Abuja woman convicted of forging late Abba’s Kyari’s signature for job scams

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) had arraigned Mba in June, 2022 on a 5-count charge…
Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) , Sightsavers International train 50 PWDs in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Kano

News

50 physically challenged persons receive ICT training in Kano

While 25 Persons With Disability graduated from the first batch (Cohort 1), another 25 Persons With Disability were inducted for…
Bayelsa governor Douye Diri says the state govt may be compelled to sue lOCs, particularly Shell over environmental degradation in the state.

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Bayelsa will sue Shell, other IOCs over environmental degradation – Diri

Diri said this while speaking at the Annual Convention and Fund Raising of the Ijaw National Congress (INC) of the…
NNPC Ltd. raises alarm about what it described as emerging coordinated sabotage campaign being waged by a syndicate against the organisation

Business

NNPC E&P Ltd, NOSL hit first oil in OML 13, Akwa Ibom

The NNPC E&P Ltd. is NNPC Ltd’s flagship upstream subsidiary, while NOSL is a subsidiary of Sterling Oil Exploration &…
Troops of Nigerian Army rescue kidnapped victims from terrorists in Katsina, Kogi, Zamfara while Boko Haram kingpin surrenders in Borno.

News

Troops rescue 17 from terrorists in Katsina, Boko Haram kingpin surrenders in Borno

For one, the Army said a notable incident occurred when Alhaji Wosai, identified as a notorious member of the Boko…
Prof. Ibrahim Gambari calls for reform of UN towards expansion of the organisation’s membership in permanent and non-permanent categories.

News

Prof. Gambari canvasses for expansion of UN Security Council

Gambari, who made the call during the virtual public lecture on preventing genocide as witnessed against the Tutsi in Rwanda,…
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