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‘Nothing Islamic about Almajiri practice, ban it totally’

The bill to establish the commission to tackle Almajiri and other out-of-school children scaled second reading in Nigeria's House of…
Police , Neighbourhood Watch Group operatives arrest one Sunday Chukwu for alleged unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Metro

Enugu man Sunday Chukwu caught with gun, ammunition

The suspect and his cohorts at large, were suspected to be perfecting plans to use the recovered items to perpetrate…
Buhari welcomes $538.05m provisions to Nigeria, says Africa must feed itself

News, Top Stories

‘I’m being harassed’ – Buhari explains why he will not miss Aso Rock

President Buhari also responded to other issues in the documentary, including the claims that he has died and the person…
Ondo governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu says action will be taken checkmate agitators for creation of Oodua Nation out of Southwest Nigeria.

Headlines, News

‘You’ll be arrested, prosecuted for treason’ – Akeredolu warns Oodua nation agitators

Akeredolu said many lives have been laid down for the unity of the country, vowing that states in the Southwest…
NAICOM constitutes 2025 Recapitalisation Committee, following President Bola Tinubu’s assent to the NIIRA 2025.

News

NAICOM jacks up insurance rates for vehicles, tricycles, others – See all the new rates

The commission also stated that the Third Party Property Damage (TPPD) which is the limit of claims an insured can…
de arrest over allegation that he been raping 14- year- old daughter

Art

The lady who was gangraped (For Vee and all victims of rape)

For Vee and all victims of rape
The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) gets assurance of massive recruitment of junior workers from NIWA, NPA

News

NPA, NIWA assure MWUN of massive recruitment of junior workers

MWUN said while there is an extinction of junior workforce at NPA even, the senior ones are also retiring, but…
University of Lagos art historian Prof. Peju Layiwola speaks about adire, a fabric she has elevated into an art form and her other works

Art, Headlines, Interview

Adire not mere fabric, it means so much to us – Prof. Peju Layiwola

In 2019, Prof. Peju Layiwola organized a groundbreaking solo exhibition in Lagos, Nigeria, which lifted adire, a popular local fabric…
Forest

News

Kogi: Hunters nab notorious kidnappers

Three of the suspected kidnappers were arrested inside a forest in Ikede community of Bassa local government of Kogi State
NYCN, groups protest at Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) demand resignation of Governor Godwin Emefiele over alleged financing of terrorism

News

‘Emefiele must go’ protest rocks CBN

The groups which protested at the headquarters of CBN in Abuja on Friday, however, asked President Buhari to sack Emefiele…
Rivers governor Nysom Wike seals campaign office of presidential candidate of PDP, Atiku and his deputy, Ifeanyi Okowa in Port Harcourt

Politics

Wike seals Atiku/Okowa campaign office in Port Harcourt

Wike had earlier on Friday blasted the Senator Lee Maeba, the Chairman of Atiku Presidential Campaign Council in Rivers State…
Mr Sadiq Abubakar assumes duty as the 29th Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT),

News

CP Abubakar assumes duty in FCT, warns criminals

By Monday Ijeh Mr Sadiq Abubakar has assumed duty as the 29th Commissioner of Police (CP) in charge of the…
Kaduna Commissioner of Police, Yekini Ayoku, says the command has put in place security for Christmas and New year activities in the state.

News

Yuletide: CP orders 24 – hour patrols in Kaduna

The Police Commissioner said command has made adequate and massive deployment of personnel and materials to ensure peaceful and hitch…
boat mishap

Metro

Controversy trails death of man in Badagry boat mishap

The accident, according to sources, occurred at the jetty on Thursday night when two boats, one coming from Badagry and…
The Nigerian aviation industry was thrown into mourning on Friday with the death of Bashir Mangal, the Chief Executive officer of Max Air.

News

Just In: Bashir Mangal CEO Max Air is dead

Bashir Mangal died in the early hours of Friday, according to a statement issued by the the media consultant to…
Alhaji Yusha’u Kebbe, a key stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State defects to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Headlines, Politics

PDP loses stalwart, Yusha’u Kebbe to APC in Sokoto

Kebbe announced his defection from PDP to APC at a press briefing in Sokoto
Ogun PDP governorship candidate Oladipupo Adebutu honours police invitation over allegations of vote buying levelled against him.

Politics

Ogun PDP to begin massive campaign after INEC’s recognition of Adebutu

INEC had in an updated list of candidates published on its website on Thursday also recognised 40 other candidates that…
Shell agrees to pay 15 million Euros to farmers in Ogoni community of Nigeria's oil rich Niger Delta as compensation for pipe leakages

Headlines, News, Top Stories

Shell to pay €15m to farmers in Nigeria’s oil producing Ogoni communities

The company said on Friday that based on the court ruling, it has reached an agreement Milieudefensie to pay 15…
The University of Abuja (uniAbuja) has approved the promotion of 23 academic staff members to the rank of professor.

Education

UniAbuja researchers got N1b grants in 2022 – VC

University of Abuja’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, disclosed this during the university’s Authors and Researchers’ Recognition and Award ceremony, organised…
Ogun PDP rejects victory of Afolabi Afuape of APC over Toyin Amuzu of the party in the Abeokuta South Federal Constituency

News

2023: Ogun PDP Rep candidate urges voters to reject Greek gifts

Amuzu, is contesting for Abeokuta South Federal Constituency seat at the lower Chambers of the National Assembly
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) appears to have made a remarkably significant breakthrough in the production of yoghurt starter culture.

News

NABDA’s breakthrough in yoghurt starter culture production

Starter cultures are a vital component of industrial food fermentation.
Police prosecute 12 members of APC and two members of PDP over alleged involvement in violence during political rallies in Borno state.

News

Electoral violence: Police prosecute APC, PDP members in Borno

Borno Commissioner of Police, Abdu Umar told journalists that the party members were being prosecuted for offences bordering on threat…
Nigeria on path of greatness - Lawan

News

Why Senate delayed passage of 2023 budget: Lawan

Lawan said this at the commencement of plenary on Thursday against the backdrop of an earlier announcement that the Bill…
Laolu Akande, spokesperson of VP Yemi Osinbajo clarifies purpose of meeting between his boss and APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu

News

‘It’s not about politics’- Osinbajo spokesperson opens up on VP’s visit to Tinubu

Osinbajo had visited Tinubu in his Abuja home on Wednesday.
It was harvest of arrests by the Oyo State command of the Nigeria Police Force, as no fewer than 19 suspected kidnappers were paraded in Ibadan for kidnapping, killings of prominent citizens and armed robbery offences.

Headlines, News

Kidnappers of Ex-UI DVC, Ogbomoso hotelier, LAUTECH student arrested

Items recovered from the suspects included four AK-47 Rifles,75 K-47 live Aammunition, two pairs of military camouflage and N7.5 million…
Gunmen kill Divisional Police Officer in charge of Maru LG of Zamfara SP Kazeem Kareem, and Inspector Rabiu Umar early Sunday morning.

News

7 police officers sacked for extortion, brutality in Imo

The police officers were arrested following complaints from members of the public about their activities including harassment, extortion illegal checking…
PDP

Politics

PDP suspends spokesperson in Gombe

By Peter Uwumarogie The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended its Gombe State spokesperson, Mr Murtala Usman, over alleged anti-party…
I will restore Nigeria’s fortune - Kola Abiola

Politics

2023 presidential poll: Bid to oust Kola Abiola as PRP candidate fails

Key had sought a consequential order setting aside the submission of Abiola’s name by PRP to INEC on June 15…
Defence Headquarters says troops had in three weeks destroy 57 illegal refining sites, arrest 21 oil thieves in Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers.

News

Troops destroy 57 illegal refineries, arrest 21 oil thieves

The troops also destroyed 953 cooking ovens, 68 wooden boats, 172 storage tanks and 149 dugout pits within the period
APC Chieftain Osita Okechukwu, explains why PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar can't get votes like President Buhari in the North

Politics

Why Atiku can’t harvest Buhari’s North Vote-Bank: APC chieftain

By Emmanuel Mogbede A chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC has explained why Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of Peoples…
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