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Gov. Dave Umahi with members of Youth Wing of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide in Abakaliki on Monday

News

Umahi fumes over suspension of Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth President

Umahi said it is illogical for a group of persons to allege to have suspended the Ebonyi representative in the…
Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi

World News

Suu Kyi’s prison sentence reduced to 2 years

A special court in Myanmar’s capital, sentenced the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to four years in prison…
APC

Metro

Edo: PDP battles APC over Obaseki’s 2022 budget

PDP said APC exhibited crass ignorance, unforgivable deliberate deceit and told barefaced lies in its criticism of the budget proposal

News

Yahaya Bello blames in-house saboteurs for Buhari’s failures

However, Bello who is eyeing the presidency in 2023, said he would fix the country if he is elected.

Education

AAU sacks 4 lecturers for gross misconduct

They were dismissed from the service of the University for alleged illegal collections of unauthorised fees, alterations of students results…
Dr David Atte: invited by DSS after comments on Sheikh Gumi's visit to Fulani communities in Kogi

Metro

DSS invites ex-commissioner over comments on Sheik Gumi

The environmentalist and former governorship aspirant had in a statement objected to Gumi tour of the Fulani settlements in the…
Ini Edo

Entertainment

Ini Edo’s torturous journey to motherhood

An actress who sure knows how to get what she wants, no matter the odds and obstacles, she has always…
The 120-bed Muhammadu Buhari Mother and Child Centre delivered by OSSAP- SDGs in Gashua, Yobe State

Metro

OSSAP-SDGs delivers 120 – bed Mother and Child Centre in Yobe

The intervention is directly linked to the achievement of SDG-3 on ‘Quality Health and Well-being for all’ as well as…
a policeman

Metro

Rice farmer, Sani Adamu rescued from kidnappers in Kaduna

The victim was abducted while working on a rice farm around Afaka village in igabi Local Government Area in Kaduna
Former governor Ibrahim Shekarau with National leader of APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the meeting in Lagos on Sunday

Politics, Top Stories

Shekarau visits Tinubu amidst battle with Ganduje for Kano APC

Some analysts had said last week's court judgment which gave control of Kano APC to Shekarau was a setback for…
APC

Politics

APC clears Ekiti LG election

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), boycotted the election
Master of Jesus College Sonita Alleyne, left and Director General of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments Professor Abba Isa Tijani pose with Benin cockerel statue

Metro

Buhari orders return of repatriated artifacts to Benin palace

"The general public is hereby invited to join His Royal Majesty in receiving the Benin Bronze cast of Okpa “Cockerel”…
Esther Zenab Kolawole, wife of Speaker of Kogi assembly dies at 50

Metro

Wife of Kogi Assembly Speaker is dead

50- year-old Esther Zenab died on Sunday morning in a Lagos Hospital after a brief illness.
The house about to be painted in the tragic incident which claimed the lives of 70-year-old Solomon Odogbor and a painter

Metro

70-year-old landlord, painter electrocuted in Benin

“The landlord and his son were holding the scaffold when they were electrocuted. They were burnt beyond recognition” he said.
Former Anambra governor Chukwuemeka Ezeife explains why the just concluded 2023 Presidential Election should not be cancelled

Politics

2023: Southeast ready to kneel, prostrate to get presidency – Ezeife

He said that it was time to give Igbo people the chance to build Nigeria to the standard God wanted…
Maria Oredola Igbinedion

Metro

Obaseki: I’m saddened by Lucky Igbinedion mother’s death

Madam Maria Oredola Igbinedion was allegedly strangled last Thursday by her house maid
Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State (left) and James E. Daniel (right), who was rewarded with N50 Million and automatic lectureship appointment in Rivers State University by the governor for bagging a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree

Education

Lucky Ph.D. graduate, James Daniel gets N50m, job offer from Wike

Wike said the honour bestowed on Dr. Daniel is in recognition of his academic excellence and for being a source…
Governor Duoye Diri speaking on the Ijaw ethnic nationality question.

News

PIB: Ijaw will continue opposing 3% allocation to host communities – Diri

He also said that the country for too long has operated a unitary system of government instead of true federalism…
Chief Olusegun Osoba and the senators who visited him in London on Saturday

Politics

Osoba asks Buhari to sign Electoral Act Amendment Bill

"I am confident that the President, as a product of direct primary, will do the right thing. I want to…
ecurity operatives nab 6 suspected kidnappers in Kogi

News

6 suspected kidnappers busted in Kogi

The suspects have been terrorising inhabitants of Oshokoshoko, Obajana and Akpata Communities along Kabba road.
Chief Magistrates’ Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan orders that Opeyemi Ajala be remanded for allegedly raping his 21-year-old daughter.

Metro

Rivers man, Progress Phimia remanded for defiling 5- year- old daughter

Okafor Ofiebor/ Port Harcourt A 40-year-old father, Progress Phimia, was remanded on Friday by a Magistrate Court in Port Harcourt…
Pa Timothy Owoniyi, father of the Obaro of Kabba dies at 90

Metro

Pa Owoniyi, father of Obaro of Kabba dies at 90

Pa Owoniyi was the second man in the history of Kabba to be alive to experience the coronation of his…
Pastor Izochukwu Anoloba among the suspects arrested by Imo Police

News, Top Stories

‘I got N1.5m’ – Pastor Anoloba speaks on kidnap of Imo Catholic Priest

The suspects held the priest for over seven days and made to pay a ransom of N5 million to them.
PDP's Dino Melaye loses his Ijumu LGA to APC's Ahmed Usman Ododo in declared results for yesterday's Kogi governorship election.

Politics

Dino Melaye, others demand probe of Kogi PDP finances

The petitioners also demand the immediate step aside of the State Chairman, Engr. Ohuotu, for his inability to resolve many…
The drivers blocking Benin Auchi road

News

Anguish as drivers block Auchi/Benin road over kidnap of colleague

“We are not leaving here until the government do something about it. We brought with us seven bags of rice,…
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, Speaking on African Independent Television, AIT, on Thursday.

Politics

Why Buhari will not sign Electoral Act Amendment Bill – Wike

He asserted that issues of security and cost implication will be used eventually as reasons why presidential assent will be…
APC planning to cause civil unrest ahead governorship poll - Edo Govt

News

Edo widows commend Obaseki over business grants

The grant is coordinated by the office of the Edo State Sustainable Development Goals
Prof Lilian Salami, UNIBEN VC

Education

How we make up for shortage of lecturers – UNIBEN VC

Prof. Salami said the University is working on its power plant in order to reduce the huge bill paid on…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State of Rivers State

Politics

Rivers 2023: Wike speaks on how his successor will emerge

He insisted that he is obliged to ensure that Peoples Democratic Part (PDP) wins the 2023 governorship election in Rivers
An official of Ogun State Waste Management Authority, OGWAMA (right) with a man arrested for engaging in open defecation

Metro

Open defecation: 124 caught in the act in Ogun

Eighty two of the offenders arrested in Mowe-Ibafo axis of Obafemi-Owode local government were subsequently sentenced to various community services.
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