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Tinubu and Shettima meet with NANS

What happened when Tinubu met NANS in Osun (Photos)

APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu promised to intervene and provide lasting solution to the lingering strike embarked upon by…
Edo High Court remands 38-year-old Pastor, Simeon Okehielem, for allegedly raping and impregnating a house wife, Mrs Isoken Vivian Aigbedo.

2 Benue farmers remanded for abducting colleague

Ato said the suspects and others, at large, trespassed into Demenongo’s farm and dragged him to Abande Village with his…
Flood on Ijaiye Road, Ogba, Lagos

3 siblings, 4 others killed in Lagos flood

The three siblings who lost their lives were residing at a church building belonging to Mercy of Christ Apostolic Church,…
19 year-old Covenant Onyebuchi giving her life savings her to Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi in Enugu

Why my daughter gave her saving to Peter Obi – Onyebuchi

Covenant caused a stir after handing an undisclosed amount of money to the LP candidate on Tuesday in Enugu as…
Police say 24-year-old Joshua Kosoro hangs himself after telling his relatives that he was hearing strange voices in Ohaukwu LGA of Ebonyi

Ekiti man Ademola Akinola to die by hanging for killing brother

The police said Akinola on Nov. 19, 2019 at Usin Ekiti in Ikole LGA of Ekiti, robbed Tunde, his older…
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State

Muslim-Muslim ticket: Ignore religion, vote competence – Akeredolu

Akeredolu, who expressed confidence that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will rescue the…
Dr Abdulmalik Durunguwa

NPC to recruit 3m Nigerians for 2023 census

Durunguwa said the website for the recruitment would be opened in September for interested applicants.
IInspector-General of Police (I-G), Usman Baba orders his officers to be firm and ruthless to criminals during Easter celebrations

IGP Baba bans use of spy number plates nationwide

According to the IGP, the ban will forestall the continuous disregard for traffic rules as it is applicable to all…
Sachet water: price to go up in Rivers

Price of sachet water to go up in Rivers

In some parts of Port Harcourt, a bag of Sachet water, popularly called "pure water" is sold between N120 and…
Madariola

Nigeria’s Madariola wins 2022 Earl Lovelace Short Fiction prize

The Chair of Jury, Chioma Okereke announced this on Tuesday 12 July, 2022. The runner up is The Taste of…
Adeboye says he wants to die the same day with his wife

Adeboye gives wife new name on her 74th birthday

The cleric took to his Twitter page and wrote: "There are so many names your Children call you, but my…
Pastor Adeboye with his lovely wife, Folu.

Folu Adeboye at 74: We once struggled over “ponmo”- husband

Pastor Folu Adeboye, wife of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God is 74 today. She was…

Soyinka, a trailblazer in humanities – Prof. Obafemi

Obafemi added that the celebrator had taught individuals to desist from being silent in the face of injustice and inequality.

Makinde mourns Oyo lawmaker Ademola Popoola

The governor commiserated with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, on whose platform Popoola was elected into the…
Orubebe

Delta 2023: Omo-Agege announces Orubebe as Campaign DG

In a statement, Omo-Agege said Orubebe is bringing on board a towering wealth of experience, and shall oversee all ramifications…

Another two-storey building collapses in Lagos

The building, located at No 15 Oke Arin Street, off Shillon, Onipanu, a suburb of Lagos, belongs to Christ Divine…
Police speak on efforts to arrest a gang of robbers who hijacked $11 million from a trader at gunpoint in Abeokuta, Ogun state on Friday.

Suspected Kuje prison escapee arrested in Ogun

Abdulmumuni, aged 28, was arrested following information received by policemen at Divisional Headquarters, Sango-Ota, that the convict was sighted around…
Godsday Orubebe

Delta 2023: APC’s Omo-Agege appoints Orubebe as campaign DG

The Delta All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, has appointed former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder…
HRM (Dr) Bala Abaine Angbazo

Eggon paramount ruler, Angbazo dies at 89

Angbazo was born in Wakama District, Nassarawa-Eggon Local Government Area of the state in 1933.
Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Yobe donates house, N3 million to family of policeman killed by Boko Haram insurgents in an attack on his convoy

Gov. Buni mourns 8 Yobe auto crash victims

He cautioned motorists against flouting road traffic rules, saying the increase in road accidents in the state must be checked…
Professor Wole Soyinka. Photo by Ayodele Efunla

1969 Video/ Soyinka at 88: What I lost during civil war detention

Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate, is 88 years old today. He was born on 13 July, 1933 in Abeokuta.…
FILE PHOTO: National Population Commission officials from the 2006 Census exercise.

NPC begins building numbering for trial census

Alhaji Bala Almu-Banye, the NPC’s Federal Commissioner in charge of Katsina State, said the exercise was in line with the…
Publisher of 247ureports.com, Ikenna Ezenekwe arrested in Abuja on July 5

Publishers ask Nigeria police to release journalist Ikenna Ezenekwe

Ezenekwe, according to a statement signed by Austyn Ogannah and Daniel Elombah, President and Secretary General of OPAN respectively, was…
Lagos State House of Assembly

Former Lagos Assembly Speaker Abayomi Kinyomi dies at 82

Kinyomi, was Speaker of the Lagos State Assembly from January, 1992 to November 1993 during the tenure of the late…
Lagos to launch Smart LAG ID Card

‘Why every Lagos resident must obtain new Smart LAG ID Card’

Announcing the launch date, the General Manager, LASRRA, Engr. (Mrs.) Ibilola Kasunmu said the new LAG ID Card will be…
Galadima Abba Itas

Wike: PDP’s North East Zonal treasurer Galadima Abba dumps party

Abba, in his resignation letter addressed to the Ward Chairman, Itas Gadau Local Government Area of Bauchi State complained about…
Goodluck Jonathan and Edwin Clark

How Northern PDP leaders ousted Jonathan from power in 2015 – Edwin Clark

Clark said members of the PDP from the north only worked against Jonathan, but funded the APC its presidential candidate,…
Chief El-stevens Okorouka APGA chairman Ebonyi

APGA elects Ifeanyi Eleje for Ebonyi South senatorial seat

Eleje is the President, Government Secondary School, Afikpo, Old Boys Association Worldwide.
Prof. Wole Soyinka

Soyinka strikes 88 in fine fettle

The towering writer who stunned the world as the very first black man to win the coveted Nobel Prize in…
ASUU, others react to call by President Buhari on striking lecturers to return to classes in his 62nd Independence Day broadcast

ASUU urges Buhari meet with Briggs renegotiation committee

The Briggs committee which was set up by the Federal Government on June 7, is to renegotiate the 2009 Agreement…