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President Buhari with Governor Obaseki in Aso Rock presidential villa on Wednesday: Obaseki said he discussed issue of open grazing and the need for full implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Programme (NLTP) to address the problem of clashes between farmers and herders during the meeting with the President

News

Obaseki: What I discussed with Buhari in Aso Rock

Obaseki said the state government is yet to promulgate a law banning open grazing because it sees the venture as…
Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State

Politics

2022: APC leaders reiterate commitment to Oyetola’s re-election

Laoye-Ponle said that people in the constituency appreciated the numerous projects embarked upon by the governor since inception of his…
CP Abutu Yaro: Anambra United asks Inspector-General of Police to deploy him to Anambra to tackle rampaging gunmen

News

Rampaging gunmen: Anambra group asks for CP Abutu Yaro

“Yaro is a lion in the field of operation. We need him to replicate the feat he achieved in Imo…
A cobra: Indian court, handed a rare double life sentence to Sooraj Kumar who was found guily of murdering his wife by making a cobra bite her while she was sleeping.

Metro

Man gets two life sentences for killing wife using cobra

India’s Supreme Court recently warned about a trend of snake-bite murders
Court orders remand of 2 herbalists, Ismail Wasiu, 29, and Shittu Mutairu, 35 and one other for alleged murder of a woman, Mujidat

Metro

Court dissolves marriage after 64-year-old husband threatens suicide

All the five children agreed that the marriage should be dissolved for peace to reign.
Cross section of participants at a three-day intensive workshop on advocacy, girls' education and school safety, organised by Malala Fund: They demanded for safer schools for Nigerian girls

Education

Malala Foundation hosts ‘Safer School’ workshop in Nigeria

High point of the workshop was the presentation of the Girls’ safe School Declaration to Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo…
Seyi Shay: Speaks on Sound Sultan convinced her to relocate to Nigeria and living with him for one year

Entertainment

Seyi Shey speaks on meeting, living with late Sound Sultan

Nigerian singer-songwriter, Deborah Oluwaseyi Joshua, popularly known as Seyi Shay has spoken on how late music legend, Olanrewaju Abdul-Ganiu Fasasi,…
Kassim Afegbua: Chairman of the PDP in Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State, Sir Sunday Adogah, says he no authority to speak on the internal affairs of the party since he has been suspended.

Politics

Suspension: Edo PDP tackles Afegbua

the suspension of Afegbua has been ratified by the National Executive Committee (NEC) of PDP
Social Democratic Party: Chairman of SDP in Delta, Mr Oke Idawene, says Southern leaders should lobby their Northern counterparts to get presidency in 2023.

Politics

2023: SDP chieftain counsels Southern leaders on presidency

Idawene called on politicians and in particular the National Assembly to support INEC to adopt electronic voting come 2023.
Ex- Kano lawmaker Yusuf Sulaiman says emergence of Abdullahi Ganduje as National Chairman of APC has sent jitters to the camp of the PDP.

Politics

APC Congress: Ganduje orders contestants in Kano to report at NDLEA

On Jan. 8, 13 councillorship aspirants in Kano State tested positive to hard drugs.
Scores of Edo youths at a failed section of the Benin -Sapele expressway on Tuesday protesting the deplorable condition of the road.

News

Edo youths protest deplorable state of Benin/Warri road

Residents lament that the bad state of the road has disconnected communities in Edo and Delta States
Curtis Ugbo, President of the Benin Solidarity Movement: arrested by police for allegedly lying against a Benin-based human rights lawyer, Olayiwola Afolabi.

News

Benin Solidarity Movement’s President, Ugbo in police net

Ugbo was alleged to have said that Afolabi collected the sum of  N10m from one Prince Johnson Atseleghe as a…
Obaseki (right) with Andrew Emwanta: Coalition of Benin Youth Groups asks Governor Godwin Obaseki to remove Andrew Emwanta as Commissioner for Information and Orientation.

News

Group asks Obaseki to sack Commissioner Andrew Emwanta

Emwanta was accused of opposing the appointment of a Benin man as Chairman of NDDC and saying that he owes…
The remains of two boys of Madam Precious Sunday beside the truck that crushed them to death under the Isaac Boro Park flyover in Port Harcourt, Rivers State

Metro

I want justice, not N1m for killing of my 2 boys: Bereaved mother

The bereaved mother who was pregnant and due for delivery when the accident occurred gave birth to a baby girl…
Court sentences Lagos man, Eniola Wasiu Ibrahim, to life imprisonment for forcefully having sexual intercourse with his girlfriend

Metro, News

Why I beheaded my brother – Plateau man Danladi confesses

“I became very angry and disappointed that he could do such a thing. I picked up a knife and stabbed…
Mohammed Idris, former Representatives and son of a former Governor of Kogi state, Ibrahim Idris, dies in Abuja.

Politics

Ibrahim Idris joins race for PDP chairmanship

He promised to lead the PDP back to victory in 2023 election as an experienced members of the party who…
Justice Joy Okeaya-Inneh of a Benin City High Court on Friday issued an interim injunction restraining embattled National Vice Chairman (South-South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Orbih, the State Secretary of the party, Hilary Otsu and nine others from participating in the national convention of the party, scheduled to hold from 30 to 31 October, 2021 in Abuja.

Politics

Edo PDP: Obaseki supervises suspension of Dan Orbirh, 5 others

By Jethro Ibileke Governor Godwin Obaseki was present as members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ratified the suspension of the…
Late Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu: Nnenna Abiona, first daughter says late ex-Military Governor of Lagos and Imo, Rear Admiral would be upset about the legal dispute in the family over his burial arrangements.

Metro

Dad would be upset over lawsuit: Ndubuisi-Kanu’s daughter

One of the wives of the deceased, Mrs Gladys Kanu filed a lawsuit against the children of the deceased, the…
Sir. Victor Uwaifo

Metro

Edo govt. announces burial programme for Sir Victor Uwaifo

The funeral for Uwaifo would commence on October 14 with tributes, vigil mass/service of songs at the Ogbemudia Stadium Benin.
FILE PHOTO: COVID-19 testing; Germany says no more free testing for COVID-19 Photo credit: The Lancet

News

Germany stops free COVID-19 tests

Minister of Health Jens Spahn defended the move saying that free COVID-19 testing, for example, would still be available for…
Late Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu: Nnenna Abiona, first daughter says late ex-Military Governor of Lagos and Imo, Rear Admiral would be upset about the legal dispute in the family over his burial arrangements.

News

Judge: Why I stopped release of Ndubuisi Kanu’s corpse

The final burial rites of the ex-Lagos Military Administrator outside Lagos will run from Oct. 13 in Imo to Oct.…
Nuhu Ribadu

Metro

Ribadu laments: I’ve really suffered from fake news

“I am a victim, and I don’t know why people are doing it, it’s as if am a target of…
Anambra Airport

News

Obiano: Anambra Airport ready for operations

The governor said that the airport has the longest runway in Africa, with the best fire fighting equipment and tallest…
Osita Okechukwu

Politics

Anambra: APC chieftain advises APGA to explore Zikist model

Okechukwu insisted that APGA was missing the point by seeking to remain as a big fish in a small pond…
Buhari presenting 2022 budget

Business

2022 budget: Some proposals may kill manufacturing sector, says MAN

MAN warns of further strangulation of the manufacturing sector that is already burdened with multiplicity of taxes/levies and fees.
Tinubu with Sanwo-Olu on his arrival in Nigeria

Politics

Group to Tinubu: We’re waiting for your whistle on 2023

The group said it was convinced by Tinubu’s visionary leadership, woven around the tripod of vision, passion and action.
CSO Chinedu Onyeche: Arrested for allegedly assaulting and stripping leader of Etche LGA Legislative Assembly, Cynthia Nwala.

News

Rivers: CSO Onyeche arrested for beating female councillor

Onyeche was arrested four days after the assault of the councilor which has provoked outrage among different groups in Rivers…
Dr. Osahon Enabulele: congratulated by Gov. Obaseki on emergence as President of the World Medical Association

Metro

World Medical Association: Obaseki hails Enabulele

Enabulele, a consultant at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital is also currently the President of Commonwealth Medical Association
Gunmen abduct Islamic cleric, Alfa Fasasi Ola Mejabi, younger brother along Lokoja/ Obajana/ Kabba road of Kogi State

Metro, Top Stories

Gunmen in multiple abductions in Kabba, Lokoja

In the ancient town of Kabba where there have been series of kidnappings in the last month, the rampaging  gunmen…
Former Ebonyi governor David Umahi says he is not quarrelling with his successor, Gov. Nwifuru

News

Umahi: Why Ebonyi will never be part of Biafra

Umahi also refuted the reports that Ebonyi indigenes were responsible for the violent activities of IPOB in Anambra and Enugu…
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