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BREAKING: Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie, disqualified by Senate as INEC Commissioner

Bowing to public outrage, Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber — the Senate on Tuesday rejected the nomination of Ms. Lauretta Onochie as a National...

Insecurity: It is my responsibility to tell President Buhari the truth - Zulum

I’m in charge in Borno, not ISWAP — Gov. Zulum

“We are yet to validate the authenticity of this report that ISWAP appointed governor in Borno State” Few days after Boko Haram and...

Hospitality: VP Osinbajo launches Transcorp Hotels launch “Aura” digital app

In a bid to transform the travel and tourism industry in Africa, Transcorp Hotels Plc, has launched an innovative digital hospitality app, “Aura”,...

Nigerians in South Africa urged to be vigilant as Zuma’s jail protest spreads

As protests over the jailing of former South African President, Jacob Zuma spreads like wild fire, the leadership of the Nigerian community has...

Food Inflation: Is Nigeria heading for hunger, food crisis?

    Recently, walking around the local markets or grocery stores in the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) and other parts of the country,...

Buhari’s aide’s nomination as electoral umpire: Ex-INEC Chairman, Jega, kicks, says can erode public trust in the electoral body.

“The controversies around the nomination of the former aide to the president could have been avoided. This kind of controversy is really avoidable....

Mass surveillance program: NASS approves N4.87bn for NIA to monitor, track calls and WhatsApp messages

The National Assembly has reportedly approved N4.87bn for the National Intelligence Agency to track, intercept, monitor calls and messages on mobile devices like...

Italy extends England’s misery, wins Euro 2020

Italy was crowned European champions on Sunday, extending the pain for England, which scored early but is still seeking its first major trophy...

Jumbo pay of Buhari, lawmakers, others: SERAP sues Revenue Mobilization Allocation Commission, Wages Commission

  “An order of mandamus to direct and compel the RMAFC to perform its mandatory constitutional duty to urgently review upward the remuneration,...

Music Star, Sound Sultan loses battle with Throat Cancer, dies at 44

  Veteran Singer and Rapper Lanre Fasasi, popularly known as ‘Sound Sultan’ is dead. The Fasasi family announced his death, Sunday, July 2021...

30 years after, Nigeria’s football legend, Muda Lawal, gets football supporters club’s posthumous award

About 30 years after his demise, Nigeria’s football legend, Muda Lawal, has been bestowed with a posthumous award for his patriotism and artistry...

Rail project engineer electrocuted in Ogun carousing

A rail construction site engineer, simply identified as Ifeanyi, has met his untimely death carousing after a hard day’s job in Ogun State....

COVID-19: Worst is yet to come for Africa with “Delta strain” detected in 10 African countries — WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO), has warned that as the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic gathers pace, the worst is yet to...

Brutalized and chained to freezer for 34 days: FG gets ECOWAS Court order to pay journalist, Agba Jalingo, N30m compensation

“We condemn the Nigerian government for these acts, and hereby award compensation of N30m to Mr Jalingo for violations of his human rights”...

Journalist Jalingo’s illegal detention, ill-treatment : ECOWAS Court awards N30m damages against FG

For the detention, ill-treatment and torturing of a journalist, Agba Jalingo, in Cross River State for several months, the ECOWAS Court has awarded...

Again, 5 passengers killed on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway two weeks after the Ogere carnage

Less than two weeks after several people perished in an inferno which engulfed multiple articulated vehicles at old Ogere Tollgate on the Lagos-Ibadan...