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Declare jailed Orji Kalu’s seat vacant, protesters tell Senate President 

  Hundreds of protesters on Tuesday massed at the National Assembly, demanding that the seat of the Senate Majority Whip, jailed Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu,...

Breaking: Lagos High Court frees Orji Uzor Kalu from prison

  Reprieve came the way of jailed ex-governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, as a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered...

Nigerian music legend, Majek Fashek, a.k.a Rainmaker, dies at 57

  Famed 57-year-old Reggae star, Majekodunmi Fasheke, a.k.a Majek Fashek is dead. He passed on about 11.45 pm on June 1 in New...

Post-COVID-19 lockdown: UN groups mull sustainable new education model

    As part of post-COVID-19 global lockdown strategies, Africana Women Working Group at the United Nations and the Center for SDG Global...

FG okays domestic flights from June 21

  With effect from June 21, domestic flights will begin across the country, the Federal Government said on Monday. Currently, the 23 airports...

Sexual promiscuity and rape: Exxon Mobil engineer bags 15 years in jail

  For his unrestrained sexual promiscuity and raping his tenant’s teenage girl, an EX- Exxon Mobil engineer, James Onuoha, is to spend 15 years...

Nigeria lifts coronavirus ban on religious services, opens up Churches, Mosques

  Officials in Nigeria are easing the pandemic restrictions, opening up houses of worship and religious houses. The federal government had imposed the...

FG reduces petrol pump price to N121.50

  The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency has announced a new pump price band of N121.50 per litre for Premium Motor Spirit, also...

CBN Report: Economy contracted in May, manufacturing worst hit

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has released its report on the economy indicating that the nation’s manufacturing sector contracted. It is the...

U.S says foreign enemies taking advantage of divide over race,

  U.S National security adviser Robert O’Brien has said that foreign powers were trying to exploit the fraught state of U.S. race relations...

Abia Gov. Ikpeazu feels unwell, shuns public engagements 

  Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie  Ikpeazu, is reported to be feeling “unwell” in the last few days, PerSecondnews learnt.     According to...

Cross River, Kogi’s intransigence on COVID-19: Buhari to intervene, says PTF

      President Muhammadu Buhari will take a decision over the seeming “intransigence’’of  Kogi and Cross River States in the COVID-19 fight,...

Umar to Buhari: Nigeria dangerously polarized, sliding into crisis over lopsided appointments.

    faults Service Chiefs’ appointments     In what appears like a nudge, President Muhammadu Buhari has been cautioned that Nigeria under...

Grieving Your Losses – Oge Modie

  View this email in your browser   Oge, Chief of Staff to the  former Honourable Minister of State, Petroleum Resources and she...

Oil Minister, Sylva, congratulates nine-member NNPC board

  Following the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Minister of State for Petroleum and Alternate Chairman of...