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ThisDay staff groan as Nduka Obaigbena owes five months salaries

The workers are currently groaning over non-payment of salaries and have been lamenting that despite working so hard for the…
Bola Tinubu

I will eliminate terrorists in Nigeria – Tinubu

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu has promised to wipe out terrorists in Kaduna…
Sanwo-Olu

Why we are rebuilding Nigeria’s oldest courthouse – Sanwo-Olu

The Igbosere Court, one of the torched assets, dates back to the period when Lagos became the British Protectorate. It…
Pastor Oritsejafor and Helen

Pastor Oritsejafor’s wife breaks silence: ‘I haven’t divorced my husband’

Mama Otisejafor took to her Facebook page on Tuesday to announce that she was not divorced and that she is…
Lagos Assembly Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa

Breaking: Lagos Assembly passes 2023 budget, jacks it up by N78bn

A breakdown of the approved budget size shows the sum of N748,096,508,571 as Recurrent expenditure and N1,019,917,646,713 as Capital expenditure…
JAMB re-arrests notorious examination fraud suspect, Emmanuel Akataka, reiterating that no individual or group can influence UTME results.

JAMB releases important information for UTME candidates 

According to JAMB, the development is part of measures to ensure a seamless 2023 UTME registration through the elimination of…
Majidreza Rahnavard: Iran publicly hangs second protester

Majidreza Rahnavard: Iran publicly hangs second protester

Iranian authorities have executed a second demonstrator for joining anti-government protests, the country’s judicial authority confirmed.
INEC sets aside eight days for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for the September 21, 2024 Edo governorship election.

5 things you should know as INEC begins PVC distribution

INEC has fixed Monday 12 December 2022 to Sunday 22 January 2023 as the dates for the collection of PVCs…
Musa Haro, head Dumurkol, President Buhari’s village says the people of Katsina State will vote massively for APC Bola Tinubu in 2023

Buhari’s village head: Katsina people will vote massively for Tinubu

Haro who is also Buhari’s nephew, spoke at a meeting with presidential media aide, Malam Garba Shehu and other members…
President Buhari departing Nigeria from Katsina State for Washington DC ahead of the US-Africa Leader's Summit on 11th Dec 2022

Buhari arrives Washington for U.S.-Africa leaders Summit

President Buhari will join other African leaders at the High Level Meeting holding between Tuesday, Dec. 13 and Thursday, Dec.…
Buhari

Vessel acquisition: Buhari approves disbursement of Cabotage Vessel Financing Fund

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh, announced that the funds available…
Buhari

Buhari will continue to serve Nigerians until last day in office – Femi Adesina

Femi Adesina, Special Assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, said President Muhammadu Buhari would continue with the mandates…
Presidential candidate of PDP Atiku Abubakar vows to tackle the challenges of out-of-school children, strike of lecturers if elected in 2023.

Atiku: I will make sure universities are open forever and ever

Abubakar who was speaking at the PDP campaign rally in Abuja on Saturday, also pledged to improve security of the…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, with the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Rajiv Shah, at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City, USA. 9th Dec, 2022. Photos: Tolani Alli

John Kerry praises Osinbajo’s leadership on energy transition

Participating in the carbon market would not only offer Nigeria and Africa the opportunity for growth, industrialization and job creation…
The three governors

Sanwo-Olu, Wike, Makinde bag Doctorate degrees

Governor Sanwo-Olu was honoured with Doctor of Public Administration (Honoris Causa) while Governors Wike and Makinde were conferred Doctor of…
Omokri

Nobody on earth has politicised church attendance like Peter Obi – Reno Omokri

Omokri decried that these churches now surrendering their altars to Obi to desecrate should investigate how Obi set the Anglican…
Plateau governor, Caleb Mutfwang hails former Minister of Defence, retired Lt.-Gen. Theophilus Danjuma in 87th birthday congratulatory message

Danjuma, now 84, not anti-Igbo, says Moghalu

Professor Kingsley Moghalu, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and the President of the Institute for…
2nd Niger Bridge

How opening of 2nd Niger Bridge for Christmas will be structured – Fashola

On the opening of the Second Niger Bridge, Fashola explained that the Bridge would be opened to traffic from December…

N-power funds: D’banj innocent, should be released now- Lawyer

Olajengbesi claims that D’Banj’s arrest was uncalled for, as he is innocent of the allegations of fund diversion levelled against…
Veronique Tadjo

What keeps me going as a writer: Award-winning author Veronique Tadjo

Veronique Tadjowho won the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction was in Lagos, Nigeria recently, where she headlined…
President Buhari showers praises, prayers on Tony Elumelu

Tony Elumelu: Buhari’s testimony

What a delightful week it has been for Mr Tony Elumelu, Chairman of United Bank for Africa (UBA), Heirs Holdings,…
CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, says the apex bank will not dump its new cash withdrawal limit policy despite the demand to do so by lawmakers

CBN Governor to Reps: Buhari very happy with new cash withdrawal policy

The House of Representatives had asked Emefiele to suspend the restrictions on cash withdrawals at its plenary on Thursday.
Fuel scarcity: Passengers lament soaring transportation fares in Ilorin

‘Enough is enough’ – DSS asks NNPCL, others to end fuel scarcity in 48 hours

Social - economic activities have been grounded in many parts of Nigeria in the past few weeks as a result…
Ex- UI don, Prof. Adigun Agbaje narrates ordeal with kidnappers in forest between Oyo and Ogun States, says 5 people still with kidnappers

Court remands alleged kidnappers of Prof Adigun Agbaje

The suspects, the police said, demanded N50 million ransom from Folake Adigun for the release of Prof. Agbaje, but collected…

Osinbajo attends meeting on African Carbon Market in New York

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday departed Hanoi, Vietnam and travelled to New York for a meeting. In a major push…
"Keep dancing": Atiku sends message to Gov. Adeleke

Vote en-masse for me in 2023, I won’t fail, Atiku begs Osun people

Abubakar made the plea on Wednesday during his presidential election campaign held at the Freedom Park, Osogbo, thanking the people…
Police arrest members of a fraud syndicate identified as Sanmi Ayodeji, Felix Oluwaseun, and Adeleye Oluwaseun over N16.1m POS fraud.

‘How Ibadan fraud syndicate stole N16.1m from POS’

The POS fraud which involved unlawful access to a computer network and manipulation of a POS network was busted by…
Police arrest Katsina teacher, Laminu Saminu for killing his friend Sanusi Bawa, a Civil Defence officer with poison and stealing his car

Katsina teacher Laminu Saminu kills friend with rat poison, steals car

Isah said the police traced and arrested the suspect, who also confessed to the commission the crime.
NJC says it has constituted four probe panels to investigate cases of misconduct against 27 high court judges across the country.

Supreme Court reacts to ‘interrogation’ of CJN Ariwoola by DSS

The apex court also debunked claims that five Justices of the Court have demanded the resignation of the CJN from…
Senator Raphael Warnock thanks Georgia voters

U.S. Democrats win last Senate seat in Georgia as Warnock beats Walker

All the networks, including the NBC News and CNN projected Warnock's victory, with 98 percent of the expected votes counted.