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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) shorten the traditional Friday prayers due to intense heat, until the end of the summer.

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‘How Oro worshippers attacked Muslims inside Mosque in Ile Ife’

Some Muslims had embarked on protest in the ancient town over the attack by Oro worshippers on Friday
Gov. Nyesom Wike pours encomium on Justice Adolphus Enebeli, who retires from Rivers judiciary on Friday after 31 years of service to Rivers

News

‘He never runs away from cases’ – Wike pours encomiums on retiring Justice Enebeli

Wike said the people of Rivers State are indebted to Justice Enebeli for all the services he rendered to the…
Panic as Rivers Govt commences demolition of structures around the expansive premises of AIT/Raypower media outfit Ozuoba area of the state

News

Panic as Rivers govt demolishes structures around AIT/Raypower premises

Rivers State Government had last week given a 48-hour quit notice to Daar Communication, owners of AIT and Raypower media…
Labour Party

Politics

Controversy trails suspension of Labour Party National Chairman Julius Abure

Labour Party said it is only the National Convention of the party that can suspend the national chairman and this…
Uzodimma

News

Imo: Eze Obinali arrested over article against Gov. Uzodimma

The Public Relations Officer of Imo Police Command, Henry Okoye, confirmed the arrest of Eze Obinali.
Police dock Lagos man Timothy Chukwudi for falsely describing one Chika Eze and Sunday Akpoyibo as ritualists on WhatsApp platforms.

Metro

Lagos man Chukwudi lands in trouble over WhatsApp posts

Chukwudi was docked before an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for publishing false information against the two men on different…
FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike vows to halt what he described as gradual descent of Abuja, into a beggars' city with the attendant security risks.

News

Just In: Wike sacks Rivers Hospital Management Board boss

Dr Kenneth Okagwa was directed to immediately hand over to the next most senior civil servant on the board.
Sunday

Metro

Innocent Udoh docked for stealing 70 phones in Ibadan

The prosecutor, ASP Sikiru Ibrahim, told the court that Udoh and others at large committed the theft on March 30…
Police say 24-year-old Joshua Kosoro hangs himself after telling his relatives that he was hearing strange voices in Ohaukwu LGA of Ebonyi

Metro

2 Abuja men to die by hanging for robbing, killing tricycle rider

The convicts, according to the prosecution killed the tricycle rider while armed with dangerous weapons robbed the deceased and carted…
Atiku, Obi vs Tinubu: Supreme Court set to deliver judgement

Opinion

The Nigerian elections that I witnessed

The most recent election that produced Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President-Elect is on sound footing and one of Nigeria’s freest…
Gunmen suspected to be sea pirates abduct four market women along the Lobia/Foropa waterways in Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa State

World News

Pirates abduct crew members of Danish vessel off West Africa

The Monjasa Reformer was located by the French Navy in the Gulf of Guinea on Thursday, the company said in…
President Tinubu pays tribute to MKO his wife, Kudirat, Alfred Rewane, others who sacrificed their lives in defence of Nigeria's democracy

Politics

We’ll resist plot to stop Tinubu’s inauguration – NANS

NANS said candidates who are not satisfied with the outcome of the presidential election to seek redress in the court…
Court criminalizes activities of Kogi State Transport Management Authority, KOTRAMA, and has set aside the law establishing the agency.

News

Court declares Kogi Transport Mgt. Agency illegal

There have been complaints that KOTRAMA operatives operate with impunity and have constituted themselves into terror for motorists in the…
Datti Yusuf Baba-Ahmed

News

Datti Baba-Ahmed: APC PCC asks NBC to sanction Channels TV

APC PCC stated this in a petition to the NBC on Thursday in which it accused Channels Television of allowing…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday issued certificate of returns to Prince Dapo Abiodun, his Deputy Engr Noimot Salako-Oyedele along side state House of Assembly members at the Commission's secretariat, Magbon Abeokuta, Ogun State.

News, Politics

Ogun: Abiodun, lawmakers get Certificates of Return

Abiodun who is rounding up his first term of four years had in a keenly contested March 18 governorship election…
Singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur, Oluwatosin Ajibade, a.k.a Mr Eazi, becomes the first Nigerian artiste to win a Latin Grammy Award.

Entertainment

Mr Eazi wins Latin Grammy Award

Eazi was a featured artiste on the song Arcoíris off ‘Colores – J Balvin’, which won the Best Urban Album…
Businessman Gyang Dung jailed 3 months for stealing policeman’s phone

Metro

Ekiti woman found guilty of killing husband claims insanity

However, just before the court pronounced judgment on Jegede, her laywer, Emmanuel Adedeji, had pleaded that was mentally unbalanced at…
Businessman Gyang Dung jailed 3 months for stealing policeman’s phone

Metro

Nine members of robbery gang docked for killing Police Inspector Ilonye

Upon sighting Ilonye, they shot him on his stomach and carted away his service AK-47 rifle with breech number NH347439…
Court sentences Kamilu Olona to eight months imprisonment for stealing items belonging to his father’s tenants at Bodija Market, Ibadan.

Metro

Lagos teacher Peter Jacob bags life jail for defiling 9-year-old pupil

The victim was a pupil in the primary school section of the school which also houses the secondary school where…
National Commissioner for INEC, Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu for Rivers and Bayelsa State handing over Certificate of Return to Siminalayi Fubara Governor-Elect of Rivers State

News

INEC presents Certificates of Return to Governor-Elect Fubara, others in Rivers

The National Commissioner for INEC, for Rivers and Bayelsa, Mrs. May Agbamuche-Mbu presented the certificate of returns to the Governor…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he expects intelligence briefings on discussions of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, U.S

World News

Zelenskiy invites Xi to visit Ukraine

Xi has not talked to Zelenskiy since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February last year but China published a 12-point…
Northern Christian Youth Professionals (NCYP) set agenda for President Elect Bola Tinubu, says he must hit the ground running from 29 May

Politics

‘Tinubu will build a new Nigeria’

He noted that Tinubu revolutionised governance, leadership, politics, and revenue generation in the most complex state in Nigeria, Lagos when…
At least 1,600 activists opposing UK’s monarchy will protest in London on the day of the coronation of King Charles III, reports say

World News

Britain’s King Charles visits Germany on first trip abroad

Charles’ trip, which comes just weeks before his coronation on May 6, is seen as marking a new beginning in…
Former VP Yemi Osinbajo reacts to ruling of the tribunal affirming President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the 2023 presidential election

News

Osinbajo prays for good health, wisdom for Tinubu

Osinbajo, in the message he personally signed, prayed that God will grant Tinubu more wisdom and strength in the years…
Azerbaijan and Tajikistan has joined list of countries that have been declared as malaria-free by the World Health Organisation, WHO.

Health

WHO certifies Azerbaijan, Tajikistan malaria-free

According to WHO, Azerbaijan detected its last case of locally transmitted Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) malaria in 2012 while Tajikistan…
PDP has in addition to winning the governorship election in the state, also clinched majority of the seats in the Bauchi House of Assembly.

2023 Elections, Politics

PDP wins majority of seats in Bauchi Assembly

The PDP, according to details of the results of the March 18 governorship election and state houses of Assembly released…
Three repentant Boko Haram insurgents tell panel what they know about rights abuses by Nigerian military in North East as alleged by Reuters

News

Ex- Boko Haram members open up on right abuses by military

The ex-Boko Haram members reacted to claims by Reuters in the series of reports that troops of “Operation Hadin Kai’’…
Nigeria’s economy will expand by $19bn in productivity if the country eliminates Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) by 2030, study says

Health

Eliminating NTDs will boost Nigeria’s economy by $19bn – Study

Neglected tropical diseases are a group of parasitic and bacterial diseases that are widespread among economically disadvantaged groups.

Metro

Police rescue 10-year-old girl from kidnappers

The 10-year-old girl was rescued at Enugu-Ezike community on Monday after he abductors abandoned her, Enugu Police spokesman, DSP Daniel…
Gunmen abduct Islamic cleric, Alfa Fasasi Ola Mejabi, younger brother along Lokoja/ Obajana/ Kabba road of Kogi State

News

Gunmen attack Edo community, kill one, abduct others

The rate of killing by the Fulani herdsmen in Sobe community in Owan West Local Government has become too many,”…
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