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Northern Elders Forum, NEF, denies endorsing PDP flagbearer Atiku Abubakar as the Northern candidate for Feb. 25 presidential election.

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Atiku: IPOB’s demands not beyond negotiation

The PDP presidential candidate said if elected in the 2023 elections, he will open negotiation with IPOB over their demands…
INEC sets aside eight days for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for the September 21, 2024 Edo governorship election.

Headlines, Politics, Top Stories

5 things you should know as INEC begins PVC distribution

INEC has fixed Monday 12 December 2022 to Sunday 22 January 2023 as the dates for the collection of PVCs…
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu joins chefs in the 2022 Lagos food festival to prepare fish pepper soup to the delight of participants at the event.

Metro, Photo News

PHOTOS: Moment Gov. Sanwo-Olu turns Chef, prepares pepper soup

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday joined other African chefs at the 2022 Lagos food festival to prepare fish pepper soup…
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) said Gov. Chukwuma Soludo has not began campaigning ahead of the Nov 8 Governorship Election in Anambra because he is focused on infrastructure development for now.

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Yuletide: Soludo vows to make Anambra ‘hot zone’ for criminals

Soludo statement was issued in reaction to viral message in which some roads and junctions in Anambra state were listed…
Musa Haro, head Dumurkol, President Buhari’s village says the people of Katsina State will vote massively for APC Bola Tinubu in 2023

Headlines, Politics

Buhari’s village head: Katsina people will vote massively for Tinubu

Haro who is also Buhari’s nephew, spoke at a meeting with presidential media aide, Malam Garba Shehu and other members…
President Buhari departing Nigeria from Katsina State for Washington DC ahead of the US-Africa Leader's Summit on 11th Dec 2022

Headlines, News, Top Stories

Buhari arrives Washington for U.S.-Africa leaders Summit

President Buhari will join other African leaders at the High Level Meeting holding between Tuesday, Dec. 13 and Thursday, Dec.…
Bayo Onanuga, the spokesperson of APC Presidential Campaign Council narrates encounter with the convoy of PDP's Atiku Abubakar in Abuja

News, Top Stories

How I was nearly crushed to death by Atiku’s convoy – Onanuga

Onanuga narrated the scary encounter with the convoy of the Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of PDP on his Facebook…
Presidential candidate of PDP Atiku Abubakar vows to tackle the challenges of out-of-school children, strike of lecturers if elected in 2023.

Education, Headlines

Atiku: I will make sure universities are open forever and ever

Abubakar who was speaking at the PDP campaign rally in Abuja on Saturday, also pledged to improve security of the…
Police arrest 29- year-old Kunle Abati in Ilese Ijebu community of Ogun State for rape of lady with down syndrome (name withheld).

Metro

Abati arrested for rape in Ogun

By Adejoke Adeleye A 29- year-old man, Kunle Abati has been arrested in Ilese Ijebu community of Ogun State for…
President Muhammadu Buhari urges members of APC to unite and cooperate with one another to avoid defeat in the 2023 general election.

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Buhari to APC: How to avoid defeat in 2023

By Ismaila Chafe President Muhammadu Buhari has urged members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) to unite and cooperate…
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike (right) and the Chancellor, Rivers State University (RSU), Justice Sidi Bage Muhammad 1 (left) at the conferment of the Doctor of Laws (LL.D) Honoris Causa on governor Wike during the 34th convocation of RSU on Saturday.

Education, News

Wike gets another honorary doctorate degree, donates N1bn

The honorary dedgree was confered on Wike less than 48 hours after he was conferred with honourary with similar degree…
Stakeholders in the fight against gender-based violence converged in Benin City, Edo State, on Friday, to strategies ahead of the year 2023.

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Edo: Stakeholders advocate continuous fight against GBV

Edo State Gender-Based Violence Management Committee and other stakeholders at the workshop reaffirmed their resolve to form a collective and…
Seyi Tinubu prostrates for Buhari during visit of Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Council delegation to Daura

Photo News

PHOTOS: Seyi Tinubu led youth wing of APC Campaign Council meets Buhari in Daura

President Buhari is on a brief holiday in Daura, his hometown.
(lLeft) Adamu Garba and father being received into APC in Adamawa State after he dumped Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after 23 years

Politics

Adamu Garba excited as father joins him in APC after 23 years in PDP

Garba, a former presidential aspirant on the platform of APC said his father who has been a member of PDP…
Police arrest 5 for armed robbery, illegal sale of ammunition, while two pistols were also recovered in recent operations in Delta State

Metro

Delta: Police smash 2 deadly robbers, others, recover 2 pistols

Delta Police spokesperson, DSP Bright Efe who announced this in a statement on Saturday added that 130 live cartridge as…

Politics

Thuggery: Rivers PDP tackles Atiku Presidential Campaign Council

PDP said agents of Atiku, the presidential candidate have resorted to underhand practices in attempt to stir distrust and unrest…
Faruk Yahaya,

News

Army ready with robust contingency plans for 2023 elections, says COAS Yahaya

Yahaya spoke during the closing of the 2022 Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference on Friday in Sokoto.
D’banj speaks out on changing morals in music industry

Metro

‘All I do is #choplife’ – D’Banj opens up on arrest by ICPC

D'banj was detained on Tuesday over alleged involvement in diversion of hundreds of millions of naira from the Federal Government's…
Court tells Labour Party it cannot compel the INEC to adopt electronic means of transmission for the results of 2023 election.

Politics

Labour Party cries out over ‘forceful take over’ of secretariat in Edo

Labour Party ward office at Ward 7, Ugbekun, in Ikpoba Okha local government area of Edo state was overrun by…
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will relocate 357 Polling Units to safer areas due to insecurity in Katsina State.

News

INEC to relocate 357 polling units in Katsina

According to the commission, the decision is to ensure that all Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Katsina state are allowed…
Police arrest two suspected armed robbers who allegedly attack pedestrians at the Ketu bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Metro

Two notorious robbers busted in Lagos

They were both arrested around 5:20 a.m. today on the Alausa-Ketu pedestrian Bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Since the knock-out stages in the Round of 16 in the ongoing 2022 World Cup, an uncanny trend has been going with each match played.

Football, Opinion

2022 World Cup: An uncanny trend in the knock-out stages everyone must know

In the first knock-out match that was played between Netherlands and the United States, Netherlands, whose first letter N precedes…
The U.S. House of Representatives has given final congressional approval to legislation that provides federal recognition of same-sex marriages, a measure born out of concern that the Supreme Court could reverse its support for legal recognition of such relationships.

World News

U.S. Congress passes landmark bill protecting same-sex marriage

The Respect for Marriage Act, as it is called, won Senate approval last month.
James Lalu, the boss of NCPWD knocks PDP Atiku Abubakar and running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, for not caring for persons with disabilities

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2023: Disability Commission knocks Atiku, Okowa for neglect of PWDs

Lalu said Abubakar was a Vice President under the PDP for eight years, yet he made no impact on the…
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, says the newly redesigned Naira notes are in banks and ready for issuance

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Newly redesigned Naira ready for issuance – Emefiele

CBN said that the currency redesign and reintroduced cashless policies were not targeted at anybody but are for the good…
Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Oladayo Amao charges troops to eliminate all criminal elements and restore peace in the country.

News

Nigeria winning war against terrorists – CAS Amao

Air Marshal Amao also informed the personnel that the NAF is expecting the delivery of additional new platforms which the…
Family source narrates how Ondo traditional ruler Oba Clement Olokotun was freed in Kogi State after his abductors receives N10m ransom.

News

‘How kidnappers freed Ondo traditional ruler after receiving N10m ransom’

The kidnappers of the 66-year-old Ondo traditional ruler, Oba Olukotun, had contacted the family to demand a ransom of N100…
Seme Customs Area Controller, Comptroller Mohammed Jibo

Business

Anti-smuggling war: Freight Forwarders laud Seme Customs Controller

The associations also commended Comptroller Jibo for his representation of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) at the just concluded World…
Veronique Tadjo

Art, Headlines

What keeps me going as a writer: Award-winning author Veronique Tadjo

Veronique Tadjowho won the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction was in Lagos, Nigeria recently, where she headlined…
The Kwankwasiyya Movement accuses the APC of violent attacks and thuggery against its members engaged in lawful gathering in Kano.

Politics

2023 elections: NNPP will win at all levels, says Kwankwaso

Kwakwanso refuted the rumours at the state secretariat of the NNPP in Abeokuta on Thursday.
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