Tinubu approves N3.3trn to defray power sector debts
Determined to end incessant power outages in the country, President Bola Tinubu has approved the gradual payments of N3.3 trillion to defray the...
FG opens student loan application portal May 24
The Federal Government has announced May 24, 2024, as the official date for opening the portal for student loan applications. The announcement was...
West Africa must unite to defeat terrorism, human trafficking, says Tinubu
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday received President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal and called for an alignment of purpose and structure in West...
Amid probe threat: Five commissioners quit Rivers government
Following a threat by Gov. Siminalayi Fubara to probe the administration of ex-Gov. Nyesom Wike, no fewer than five commissioners have resigned from...
Latest on Portable: Police release singer on bail
Controversial singer Habeeb Okikiola, a.k.a Portable after spending a night in the police cell was on Wednesday released on bail. Persecondnews recalls that...
International Day of Families: “Embracing Diversity, Strengthening Families”
The United Nations (UN) continues to assert that the family constitutes the basic unit of society. Nevertheless, the concept has evolved in recent...
Printing of N684m new naira notes charge: Court slams fresh N300m bail on Emefiele
An Abuja Federal High Court granted a fresh N300 million bail to Godwin Emefiele, the embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of...
Again, Emefiele arraigned, faces fresh charge of spending N18.96bln to print N684.5m new naira notes
A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, was again arraigned on Wednesday for another financial crime — the...
Horny secondary school teacher rapes primary school pupil, jailed for life
For raping a seven-year-old primary school pupil, Ojo Ezekiel, a 47-year-old secondary school teacher, will spend the rest of his life behind bars....
Gov. Fubara opens can of worms, says Wike’s projects debts gargantuan, killing
Rivers Gov. Siminalayi Fubara has opened up on the colossal debts handed down by his predecessor, Mr. Nyesom Wike which he said is...
Cut down profligacy, wastages to fund free education, varsity dons urge FG
In spite of the economic problems and the huge debt burden that beleaguer Nigeria, the Federal Government should consider introducing free education as...
Nigerian, Abodunde, who killed wife with skateboard in London bags life sentence
Nigerian Olubunmi Abodunde, who killed his wife,Taiwo with a skateboard and attributed his loss of control to medication, has been sentenced to life...
Breaking: Police arrest Portable over G-Wagon N14m debt
Popular musician Habeeb Okikiola, a.k.a. Portable, is now in police net for allegedly refusing to pay the outstanding N14 million for the G-Wagon...
Young man with bomb strapped to his body busted at Plateau bank
A young man with a belt-packed Person-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (SPBIED) has been arrested at a bank in Dadin Kowa in the Jos...
Just in: Gov. Fubara to probe predecessor, Wike, inaugurates panel of inquiry
Barring last minute change of plans, Rivers Gov. Siminalayi Fubara, has indicated plans to set up a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate...
