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The International Press Centre, IPC, Lagos-Nigeria, will, on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, launch the groundbreaking iVerify project in Abuja, FCT. The iVerify fact-checking platform will also be unveiled on the occasion.

News

IPC set to present iVerify project

Supported by the UNDP and the Spanish Government, the iVerify initiative seeks to strengthen the fight against rising information disorder…
Sanwo-Olu approves bonus and wage award for workers

News

Opposition party rates Sanwo-Olu’s administration high

The party, however, said that the administration would need more efforts to increase the number of universities and befitting specialist…
Court adjourns further hearing of the alleged N4.8bn fraud trial involving Cletus Ibeto, Chairman, Ibeto Energy Development Company.

News

Alleged N4.8bn fraud: Cletus Ibeto’s absence stalls arraignment again

Ibeto alongside Ibeto Energy Development Company and Odoh Holdings Ltd were to be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
Stakeholders meeting: PDP begins comeback move in Kogi

News

PDP directs members to withdraw all intra-party litigation

The party gave the directive in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Debo Ologunagba after the party’s…
Police arrest one "Dr" Happiness Iheukeumere aka Dr. Hagi for allegedly killing a pregnant woman and selling her baby in Rivers State.

News

‘Dr’ Happiness arrested for killing woman, selling her baby in Rivers

By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Barely two months after he was arrested for child trafficking, one “Dr” Happiness Enyinnaya Iheukeumere aka…
President Tinubu pours encomiums on elder statesman and founding member of Arewa Consultative Forum Tanko Yakasai in 98th birthday message

Metro, News

Yakasai, a patriot, one of noblest men in Nigeria’s history, says Tinubu

Ngelale said the President prayed that the anniversary of Yakasai’s birth would bring fulfilment to the important causes the statesman…
Lagos governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announces date for completion of Opebi-Mende-Ojota Link Bridge and other arterial roads

News

Sanwo-Olu announces date for completion of Opebi-Mende-Ojota Link Bridge

The Governor also disclosed that a tour of the ongoing Regional Road in Lekki would soon be embarked on.
Akume

News

SGF Akume: Tinubu will address hardship, turn economy around

By EricJames Ochigbo The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Sen. George Akume, has asked Nigerians to trust…
Students declares support for APC's Nasiru Gawuna in the tussle for Kano governorship, dismisses threats of violence by NNPP supporters

Politics

Kano governorship tussle: Group drums support for APC’s Gawuna

Seyi Olunishola, in a statement he signed, felicitated the APC Kano governorship candidate, Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna, for emerging victorious at…
Some girls tested for virginity were issued certificates after passing in a ceremony by people of Ogu Kingdom in Ogu/Bolo LG of Rivers State

Metro

Rivers girls pass virginity tests, issued certificates.

The rite of passage is called Iria, an ancient ceremony done to mark the transition of girls, usually virgins, into…
Ozekhome

News

Supreme Court imposes N40 million fine on Ozekhome

Ozekhome had, in the motion, asked the court for a consequential order to compel INEC to issue a fresh Certificate…
Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, said during his recent visit to Lagos that his ancestors founded Lagos.

Opinion

Oba of Benin, ancestors and Lagos

Lagos has had more than its fair share of socio-political changes imposed from outside. None of the outsiders should ever…
Ogun Government shut down three companies in various parts of the state for pollution and other environmental infractions

News

Ogun govt shuts 3 companies over environmental pollution

The companies are Ruili Recycling Limited, Mowe, Robust International PTE Limited, also in Mowe and Star Pipe Limited, Sagamu.
Ogun Assembly Minority Leader, Lukman Adeleye, calls for calm over agitations on introduction of toll points along Ijebu Ode/Mojoda road.

Metro

Ogun lawmaker calls for repackaging of Nigeria’s traditional festivals for tourism

Adeleye stated this at the 2023 edition of the annual Odogbolu Day, where he instituted a yearly cash prize to…
Deputy Minority Leader of Ogun House of Assembly, Lukmon Atobatele says prioritising agriculture would reduce poverty in the nation.

Metro

Ogun lawmaker initiates agricultural training for constituency

By Adejoke Adeleye,Ogun The Deputy Minority Leader of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Lukmon Atobatele, has said prioritising and…
APC chieftain, Illyasu Kwankwaso says Gov. Abba Yusuf ongoing probe of his predecessor Abdullahi Ganduje was plot to hijack the party in Kano.

Politics

Kwankwaso to politicians: Stop castigating the judiciary

Kwankwaso, who served as Commissioner for Community and Rural Development in former Governors Ibrahim Shekarau and Abdullahi Umar Ganduje's administrations,…
Rivers Commissioner of Police Tunji Disu transferred

News

Just In: Rivers cult kingpin ‘General Danger’ abducts, kills 3 persons for assaulting his mother

Community sources said the corpses of the three persons were found along the Egbeh and Ebiriba Road area of Ubie…
NBA, DSS

News

Pandemonium in Edo hospital after death of DSS operative

The angry DSS operative clashed with operatives of the DSS who brought the deceased to the Hospital, officers of the…
UNILORIN’s 2024 Post-UTME screening draws record 16,097 candidates

Education

Unilorin unveils 48 professors, 59 associate professors

Speaking earlier, the Registrar, Mr Mansur Alfanla, congratulated the new professors on their promotion to the pinnacle of the teaching…
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu

News

Court issues orders to INEC over ‘underage voters’

Delivering the judgment on Nov. 28 but a certified true copy sighted on Monday by NAN, Justice Egwuatu held that…
Vigilante operatives in Rivers apprehend one Sokipri Warmet alia Soki for allegedly disarming a police officer of his pistol

Metro, News

Vigilante operatives arrest man for snatching police officers’ pistol in Rivers

Meanwhile, the suspect, Sokipri Warmet claimed that he collected the pistol after it fell down from the officer.

News, World News

German vice chancellor cancels COP28 visit due to budget crisis

The move follows a landmark court decision earlier this month that blew a huge hole in the government’s spending plans.
Minister of Works, Dave Umahi takes over Second Niger Bridge,says job done on it is “impeccable, very beautiful and well completed”.

News

Second Niger Bridge impeccable, very beautiful, well completed – Umahi

By Monday Ajogun The Minister of Works, Engineer Dave Umahi has commended the previous and present administration for doing quite…

News

We are worried Abba Moro is talking abput erosion of democracy – Benue Govt

Dissolution of Benue LGs based on Assembly’s order -Official By Emmanuel Antswen The Benue Government has accused Senator Abba Moro…
Nigerian Army commissions solar-Powered Industrial Borehole, undertake other community initiatives at Ogun host communities,

News

Army donates borehole, undertakes healthcare initiative at Ogun communities

The baale (community leader) of Alamala, High Chief Akimade Yemi, expressed gratitude for the initiative.
The Medical Guild, an association of medical doctors under the employment of the Lagos government said it has lost 15 of its members in the state in the last six months as a result of ongoing co-morbidities exacerbated by manpower bleed and the attendant severe overwork at service points

Health, News, Top Stories

Severe overwork: 15 doctors working in Lagos govt hospitals die within 6 months

The intensity of the attendant sense of loss was probably brought to its peak with the tragic event of collapsed…
State Fire Service says two offices at the procurement department were affected in the Sunday afternoon fire incident at FRCN Kaduna

News

‘Offices in procurement dept burnt in FRCN Kaduna fire’

Ayuba Yohanna, Assistant Commandant of the Kaduna Fire Service said this on Sunday in a phone conversation. According to him,…
3SC of Ibadan in Aba draw 1-1 with hosts Enyimba International Football Club in a NPFL Match Day 26 fixture.

Sports

Ogunbote laments 3SC’s inability to convert scoring chances against Heartland FC

Ogunbote spoke during the post-match news conference, after drawing goalless with Heartland FC of Owerri in a 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier…
U.S. celebrates Nigeria at 64, vows strengthening cooperation in economy, energy

World News

U.S. stands by two-state solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict – Envoy

Greene who was responding to a question on how the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears to have divided the world, including Africa,…
Ighodalo

Politics

Drama as Obaseki’s ‘anointed’ successor Ighodalo addresses kinsmen through interpreter

However, Asue Ighadalo, an economist and banker who spoke in front of his family home in Ewohimi, Esan South East…
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