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President Muhammadu Buhari mourns passage of his 'most valued friend' and classmate at Government College Katsina, Sen. Abba Ali.

News

Buhari approves orthopedic hospital for Jos, Benin, Jalingo

Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this on Wednesday at the official inauguration of the Primary Health Care(PHC) Leadership Challenge…
An Electricity supply line

Headlines, News

JUST IN: Electricity workers suspend strike for 2 weeks

Earlier, the Transmission Company of Nigeria had confirmed that the national grid has been shutdown following the industrial dispute by…
Police rescue kidnap victims in Kaduna state.

News

Troops dislodge bandits, rescue 6 hostages in Kaduna

The Kaduna state government conveys its deep appreciation to the Chief of Defence Staff, the Chief of Army Staff, the…
National Grid

Metro, Top Stories

Total blackout in Lagos as electricity workers begin strike

The DisCos said the picketing of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) by the union members had plunged customers under…

Metro

Gunmen abduct 6 travelers in Kwara

The gunmen succeeded in abducting 6 passengers, but four of them later escaped as confirmed by the spokesperson for Kwara…
PDP NWC set up the caretaker committees for the five states on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party,

Politics

2023: Councillors pledge total victory for PDP in Enugu

The Councillors unanimously declared their support for the governor, the PDP governorship candidate, Mr Peter Mbah, and all the other…
Dambazau

News

How Gen. Dambazzau resisted pressure to take over during Yar’Adua’s illness

Dambazau also served as the Minister of Interior in the first tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration.
Left: 24-year-old Hadi Matar and writer Salman Rushdie who he attacked at a literary event in New York

Metro

Salman Rushdie: Mother of attacker makes strange revelations about son

Rushdie's life has been under threat since 1989 when the late Ayatollah Khomeini - leader of Iran's Islamic revolution –…
Elegushi Beach

Metro

How 4 students died celebrating WASSCE results in Lagos

While also confirming the incident, the management of Elegushi Beach, in a statement signed by Ayuba Elegushi said the students…
Court reserves judgment in a suit filed by an aspirant, Madam Patience Key against Kola Abiola, the 2023 presidential candidate of PRP

Politics

2023 presidency: Court asked to kick out Kola Abiola as PRP’s candidate

Mr Kola is the son of late MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 1993 presidential election.
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology(LAUTECH)

News

LAUTECH denies asking students to resume

Fadeyi said that the purported resumption announcement allegedly signed by the institution’s Registrar, Dr Kayode Ogunleye, did not emanate from…
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu

Politics

INEC redeploys 2 RECs, 8 directors

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has redeployed two Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) and eight directorate level members of staff.…
Sowore

News

How Doyin Okupe enticed me to support Peter Obi – Sowore

Okupe and I had a back and forth on the perfidy of the political elite, reminding him of his role…
Uwem Akpan: author of the critically acclaimed novel, New York, My Village

Art, News

I’m still getting threat messages over my Biafra book – Uwem Akpan

Akpan gave graphic details of how Biafran soldiers oppressed the minorities whom they accused of being saboteurs and subject them…
Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil, the governorship candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Kano (left) receiving a document on the Kano Citizens’ Charter of Demands, from the Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO).

Politics

Sheikh Ibrahim Khalil: Why I want to be Kano governor

Khalil, also the state Chairman of the Council of Islamic Scholars, said that good governance has four pillars.
Managing Director of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Plc, Mrs. Funke Oshibodu,

Business

DisCos takeover: BEDC MD Osibodu arrested, alleges threat to life

Funke Osibodu insisted that a valid court order dated 8 July, 2022, restrained Fidelity Bank, one Henry Ajagbawa, NERC ,…
EFCC Working in Best Interest of Nigerians- Ekpungu

News

EFCC recovers N1.4bn NHIS funds from banks

EFCC had also on February 10, 2022 released a sum of N1.5bn recovered from banks to the NHIS.
Group warns that campaigns for 2023 election in Rivers will be characterized by violence following recent appointments by Gov. Nyesom Wike .

Education

Rivers bans use of public schools’ facilities by individuals, groups

The Commissioner warned Principals and Head Teachers that the directive must strictly be adhered to, and those who flaunt the…
Police rescue four of the passengers abducted from commercial bus hijacked in the Omerelu axis of Port Harcourt-Owerri road, Rivers State

Metro

Rivers man Chima attacks wife with cutlass over lover

Wakaego, now in coma, had challenged her husband for bringing his lover into their matrimonial home at Omerelu community, Ikwerre…
Tinubu shows gratitude to Lalong

News

Again, Lalong begs Catholic Bishops over Pope comment

Lalong had recently said that the Pope endorsed his appointment as the Director General of the presidential campaign of the…
Raila Odinga and William Ruto

World News

Kenya braces for legal battle after Ruto declared president-elect

Kenya on Tuesday braced for a protracted legal battle after William Ruto was declared the winner of presidential election. Ruto…
Sunday

Metro

My husband is too lazy, Mother of 3 tells court

Sanusi, a businesswoman, said she is further frustrated by her husband’s alleged ineptitude when he barred her from having access…
Most Reverend Oliver Abba: elected as the new Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria,

News

Archbishop Abba emerges Prelate Methodist Church of Nigeria

Until his election, Abba was the Archbishop of Benue and had been in the service of the church for over…
L-R: Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Ikunyi-Owaji Ibani; former Rivers State governor, Dr. Peter Odili; Hon. Justice Mary Odili; Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and his wife, Hon. Justice Suzette Nyesom-Wike; Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu and Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom during the 74th birthday celebration of Dr. Odili in Port Harcourt on Monday.

News, Politics

Wike: Some Rivers PDP elders plotting against me in Abuja

By Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers governor, Nyesom Wike has said some elders in the state are ganging up against him…
Iyorchia Ayu, the National Chairman of PDP, reacts to allegations of fraud leveled against him by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.

Politics

Ayu to Wike: I have no plan to resign as PDP Chairman

Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday said he has no plan to resign…
Bauchi Command of FRSC attributed the crash which occurred at about 6.20a.m.to speed limit violation, fatigue and loss of control.

News

97 die in night accidents in 8 months in Lagos — FRSC

FRSC had already enunciated the policy of discouraging night travel through public sensitisation programmes
National Commissioner of the NDPB, Dr. Vincent Olatunji

Business

Phillips Consulting, bank under probe over violation of data regulations

The complaint against Phillips Consulting is in connection with the activities of online lending platforms who willfully breached the privacy…
Court of Appeal reverses tribunal's verdict, says Uba Sani of APC conclusively won the 18 March Kaduna State governorship election

News

Sen. Sani reacts to reports on bill renaming Kaduna State to Zazzau

By Kingsley Okoye The Senator, representing Kaduna Central, Sen.Uba Sani, has described the media report on purported sponsorship of bill…
Chieftains of ruling APC in Nasarawa State move to secure victory for the party in the 18 March governorship and state assembly elections.

News

BudgIT lied, Gov. Sule not owing us salaries – Nasarawa workers

By Mohammed Baba Busu The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Nasarawa chapter has dismissed report that the administration of Governor Abdullahi…
Some Military equipment

News

PHOTOS: EFCC returns recovered equipment, accoutrements to military

The items were recovered from a contractor who supplies military equipment,
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