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Ondo Decides: Results trickle in as Mimiko, Jegede win polling units

Some results have started coming in from the governorship election in Ondo state. These are on the spots results yet…

Poll: Card reader rejects Gov. Mimiko’s thumbprint

There was mild drama on Saturday in Ondo town as the card reader deployed for the governorship election rejected Gov.…

Ondo Decides: Impressive turnout as voters cast their votes

The ongoing Ondo governorship election is witnessing a large turnout of voters as residents trooped out to cast their votes.…

Ondo election: Gov Mimiko spits fire, vows to resist INEC’s team

Here is excerpts from Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s address to journalists on today’s governorship election which he claimed is being predetermined…

Breaking: Former Cuban President Fidel Castro dies at 90

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro is dead at the age of 90, his brother, Cuban President Raul Castro announced. Fidel…

Poll predicts Akeredolu to win Ondo governorship election

An opinion poll conducted by the Punch newspaper has predicted victory for the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship candidate, Rotimi…

Breaking: Ondo on edge as Gov Mimiko vows to resist rigging

Less than 12 hours to tomorrow’s governorship election in Ondo State, the atmosphere in Ondo is tense as security agents…

Our experiences in prisons-Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ajibade

Adefoyeke Ajao Legendary Kenya writer, Prof.Ngugi wa Thiong’o and the Executive Editor of The News Magazine, Kunle Ajibade have recounted…

Obla loses N1 billion suit against EFCC

Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday struck out the N1 billion fundamental rights…

EFCC arraigns Ogunlewe, FUNAB VC, Bursar

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday arraigned the trio of Senator Adesewe Ogunlewe, former Works and Housing…
Iyiola Omisore: Gov. Adeleke begging to join APC - Omisore

Osun PDP crisis deepens, faction suspends Omisore

As the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State deepens, a faction of the party on Friday…

15 dead, dozens wounded in Iran train crash

Two passenger trains collided in Iran’s north-central province of Semnan on Friday, killing no fewer than 15 people and injuring…

Many killed as JTF raids militants’ camp in Delta

Many militants were reported killed when the Joint Task Force (JTF) code-named ”Operation Delta Safe” raided a suspected militants’ camp…

Toyin Aimakhu’s ex-lover remanded in Kirikiri prison for alleged theft

Toyin Aimakhu’s ex-lover and Lagos-based Nollywood film-maker, Seun Egbegbe, has been remanded in Kirikiri prison pending the fulfilment of the…

Presidential plane crashes in Makurdi

One of the presidential planes handed over to the Nigeria Airforce by the Presidency, Augusta AW101, has crashed within the…

Security beefed up for hitch free election in Ondo

Security has been beefed up in Ondo state ahead of the Nov. 26 governorship election. A visit to some areas…

Breaking: Jimoh Ibrahim loses at Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Thursday referred back to the Court of Appeal, Abuja, all pending cases relating to the dispute…

SERAP seeks probe of Obasanjo over $16b spent on electricity

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a letter to Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen Chief Justice of Nigeria…

President Buhari returns to Abuja from Malabo

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday night returned to Abuja from Malabo, Equitorial Guinea, where he successfully participated in the 4th…

Wike is pathetic, needs psychiatric help – Amaechi

Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, reckons that the governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike needs psychiatric help for allegedly…

24,890 Lagosians test positive to HIV in 18 months

No fewer than 24,890 Lagosians have tested positive to the dreaded HIV disease within 18 months in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria,…

Ondo guber poll: INEC replaces Jimoh Ibrahim with Eyitayo Jegede

The Independent National Electoral Commission (lNEC) has replaced the name of Mr Jimoh Ibrahim with that of Mr Eyitayo Jegede…

Recession: Stop the blame game and work, Obj tells Buhari

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has asked President Muhammadu Buhari and his team to stop blaming past administrations for the country’s…

Ondo poll: Ibrahim goes to Supreme Court

Following his loss at the Appeal Court, Jimoh Ibrahim says he is going to the Supreme Court to challenge the…

Breaking: Ambode abolishes monthly environmental sanitation

The Lagos State Government on Wednesday terminated the monthly environmental sanitation exercise which hitherto held for three hours on the…
PDP appoints Eyitayo Jegede chairman of committee that will screen all aspirants for national offices in its forthcoming National Convention

Breaking: Appeal Court sacks Jimoh Ibrahim as PDP gov candidate in Ondo

The Court of Appeal, Abuja on Wednesday re-listed Eyitayo Jegede as candidate of PDP in the November 26 governorship election…

Justice Abang wrong to order INEC to replace Jegede’s name with Jimoh Ibrahim – A/Court

The Special Panel of the Appeal Court in Abuja this afternoon ruled that Justice Okon Abang of the Abuja High…

Zamfara police rescue 41 persons recently kidnapped

The police in Zamfara have announced the rescue of 41 persons kidnapped last week by armed bandits in Maru local…

128 policemen killed in three months- I-G

The Inspector-General of Police, (I-G), Mr. Ibrahim Idris, said 128 policemen had lost their lives to activities of criminals in…

Fire guts YABATECH female hostel

An early morning inferno on Wednesday destroyed 20 rooms in a female hostel at the Yaba College of Technology in…