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NAHCON announces date to begin transporting Nigerian pilgrims participating in the 2025 Hajj in Saudi Arabia back home

News

2022 Hajj: Kogi sets deadline for payment of fare

Kogi Hajj Commission advised intending pilgrims to update their payments to the new amount, emphasizing that the final Hajj fares…
L-R: Governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed; the former Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki; Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike; Governor of Sokoto State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal and the former Managing Director of FSB International Bank, Dr Mohammed Hayatu-Deen after a closed door meeting at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Wednesday.

Opinion

2023: Wike and the consensus gambit

The collapsed consensus discourse was a deliberate ploy, ab initio, to distract the zoning arrangement of the party in flagrant…
Court stops APC ,18 other political parties from disrupting or frustrating the impending local government election in Kano State.

News

Group: Why it’s unconstitutional for parties to charge for forms

By Adeyemi Adeleye A political rights group, the Campaign for Constitutionalism and Human Rights (CCHR) has said it is unconstitutional…
Jonathan

Politics

2023 presidency: Group urges APC to adopt Jonathan

Okorie said the call for Buhari to endorse Jonathan was to ensure that candidates without clear cut vision do not…
The four policemen, arrested for alleged involvement in killing of a vigilante member, Ikponwonsa Aikpitanyi in Benin, Edo state

Metro

4 policemen, couple arrested for murder of vigilante man in Edo

The 27-year-old Aikpitanyi, a member of the local vigilante group at Obaze Street, off Ewah Road, in Benin, was allegedly…
Edo APC Chairman, David Imuse, resigns to participate in the party's primary election for the state's September 2024 governorship election

Politics

Edo APC Assembly aspirants accuse party chairman of imposition

By Jethro Ibileke About eight aggrieved aspirants for Edo State House of Assembly on the platform of the All Progressives…
PDP tackles APC governorship candidate Tonye Cole for calling on the FG to declare state of emergency in Rivers over political violence.

Politics

Tonye Cole not yet our governorship candidate – Rivers APC

However, APC said it is still committed to its earlier position to support the emergence of a governor of riverine…
The nine arrested members of a notorious kidnap gang allegedly terrorizing the people of Abeokuta Ayetoro area of Ogun State

News

Police bust deadly kidnap gang in Ogun, arrest 9 members

The suspects were arrested on Sunday 24th of April 2022 in their hideout at Abule oba, off Ayetoro road in…

Opinion

Jesus lost elections, so can Bishop Kukah lose to Buhari

Unlike Kukah, Buhari also has experience running for the Presidency in the last five general elections: 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015…
Yakubu Dogara

News

Dogara: How to create 361 legislative seats exclusively for women

“Also it was proposed that one additional House of Representatives seat be created for each State and the FCT which…
Two members of Aiye cult gang, Habeeb Muideen a.k.a Oko 8 and Ibrahim a.k.a Ayin arrested by police during supremacy battle in Abeokuta, Ogun State

Metro

2 Aiye cult members arrested, 1 killed in Ogun clash

"The two suspects are currently undergoing interrogation at SWAT office to determine their roles in the clash which left one…
Enugu Police

Metro

Police deny culpability in death of village head, 2 others in Ondo

An eye witness, Funmi Olowogboye, told newsmen that the accident occurred while the police officers were trying to extort the…
Prof. Christopher Okunseri (2nd left); Mrs. Obaseki (middle) and others at the press briefing

News

Why Edo govt. settles indigent patients’ medical bills – Mrs. Obaseki

By Jethro Ibileke Wife of Edo Governor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, has revealed that the state government spends millions of naira…
Governor Seyi Makinde speaking at the palace of late Alaafin of Oyo State on Sunday

News

Makinde speaks on death of 3 top Oyo Obas under his govt.

Makinde said that he had been receiving several calls from notable Nigerians since the departure of Oba Adeyemi, indicating that…
Bayelsa West Senator, Seriake Dickson dumps the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for newly registered Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC).

Politics

Seriake Dickson warned against bid to return to Senate

The group cautioned that any move to re-elect former Gov. Dickson against the zoning formula that now favours Ekeremor might…
Chief Elias Mbam

News

Umahi warned against imposition of governorship candidate on APC

The RMAFC chairman urged the governor, as the leader of APC in Ebonyi to allow a level playing field for…
Chief Ikeobasi Mokelu,

Politics

Why I joined 2023 presidential race: Ex-Abacha minister Mokelu

Mokelu was the founder and convener of #Istandwithbuhari, an All Progressives Congress (APC) movement established in all the 774 Local…
FILE PHOTO: Members of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria.

Metro

Vigilante man Aikpitanyi shot dead by police in Edo

By Jethro Ibileke A member of a local vigilante group at Obaze Street, off Ewah Road, in Benin, Edo State,…
Former Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom state and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Engr Patrick Ekpotu,

Politics

Ex- deputy governor Ekpotu warns PDP on zoning, consensus

Ekpotu stressed that the PDP does not need self-enabled divisiveness at this moment, when the whole nation is looking up…
NCDC says 172 deaths have been recorded from Lassa fever in 21 states so far, 17% higher than that recorded in the same period in 2024.

News

Lassa Fever kills 34 in Ondo

Ondo State, in the last epidemic, was the epicenter of Lassa Fever in Nigeria, and the state government looked into…
a policeman

Metro

Akinlosolu, David, Blessing nabbed for one chance robbery in Ondo

"During interrogation, the suspects confessed to be serial robbers whose area of specialty was using taxi to rob unsuspecting citizens,"…
Tonye Cole beats Obi Cubana, others to emerge ‘Businessman of the Year’

Politics

How I emerged Rivers APC consensus governorship candidate – Tonye Cole

Tonye Cole who was also the APC flag bearer in 2019 tried to demonstrate that the process of choosing a…
Kogi West senatorial aspirant, Christopher Oni

Politics

Why I want to run for Kogi West Senatorial seat – Oni

Christopher Oni said as a grassroots politician, he is familiar with the people, their challenges and he will harmonise his…
Gunmen abduct Islamic cleric, Alfa Fasasi Ola Mejabi, younger brother along Lokoja/ Obajana/ Kabba road of Kogi State

News

Kogi: Gunmen attack police station, kill 3 officers

Kogi Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP. William Ayah, confirmed the attack in a statement issued in Lokoja on Saturday…
Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi

Metro

How Alaafin predicted his death and faced it boldly

The Alaafin seemed to be a cat with nine lives. His death had been rumoured many times in the past.…
I was not invited nor arrested by EFCC: Pauline Tallen speaks

News

Nigeria’s Minister wants psychiatric tests for couples before marriage

By Aderogba George The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has said that she would initiate a conversation with…
Screen grab from the old Village Headmaster TV drama

Entertainment

‘Village Headmaster’ back on screen after 34 years

The new Village Headmaster cast is super-packed with the choicest names in the movie industry notably, Dejumo Lewis as Kabiyesi,…
NURTW

Metro

Lagos crisis: NURTW begs Gov. Sanwo-Olu

The president said that the union had inaugurated a nine-man caretaker committee to oversee and coordinate operations of the union…
EFCC arrests Emmanuel Udom, the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State over alleged N700 billion fraud.

Politics

Why I want to be president – Udom Emmanuel

Udom Emmanuel who is a presidential aspirant on the platform of PDP said if elected president in 2023, he would…
FRSC boss Oyeyemi:

News

FRSC redeploys 46 senior officers

By Ibironke Ariyo The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has redeployed 46 senior officers to different formations nationwide for effective…
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