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Breaking: Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala named WTO Director-General

  Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been appointed the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the first African...

For his dedication, serving in Boko Haram territory, Ogun-born medical doctor gets N13.9m Borno Gov. largesse

  By Boye Ajayi   The Borno State Government has compensated a 65-year-old medical doctor from Ogun State, Dr Isa Akinbode with N13.9...

N148bn credit facility doled out for agribusiness, agriculture across Nigeria, says NIRSAL

  In line with its mandate, the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agriculture Leading (NIRSAL) says it has facilitated over N148 billion...

Carrying of AK 47 by herdsmen: Gov. Akeredolu blasts Bauchi Governor, says he is lawless, an unrepentant anarchist

  Outraged by Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed’s justifying Fulani herdsmen carrying guns, Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has described him as an...

Lagos Lekki Toll Plaza: Police Crush, Arrest 10 Protesters, Haul them Into Black Maria

  By Boye Ajayi   No fewer than 10 people including four girls have been arrested by security operatives at the Lekki toll...

Body of first civilian Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande a.k.a LKJ, interred in Lagos

  Ex-Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, who passed on peacefully at his Ilupeju residence, was on Friday buried in Ikoyi cemetery...

This Day in Pictures: Ex-Lagos Governor, Alhaji Lateef Jakande buried in Lagos

The late first civilian Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, who passed on yesterday at the age of 91, has been...

Fulani herdsmen on a farmland

Fresh herdsmen attack in Ogun: Two killed, schools, hospitals shut

  Owode-Ketu and Ijoun communities in the Yewa North Council Area of Ogun State have been turned into a theatre of war following...

Lagos NUJ to rename its Lighthouse complex in Victoria Island, Lagos, after Jakande

  The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Lagos State Council, is to rename the NUJ Lighthouse complex on Victoria Island, Lagos, after late...

BREAKING: Former Lagos State Governor, nonagenarian, Lateef Jakande exits the world

  The first civilian Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, is dead. He died on Thursday morning in Lagos at the age...

It’s fake news: No herders attack on Prof. Soyinka’s Abeokuta home — Son

  The story making the rounds that Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka’s house in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, was attacked by Fulani herdsmen...

Gov. Bello lets cat out of the bag, says Fani-Kayode has joined APC

A former Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, known for his vitriolic attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, may...

Abuja court unfreezes accounts linked with promoters of EndSARS protests

  High Court in Abuja has unfrozen accounts linked with some promoters of the October 2020 #EndSARS protest that rocked the country to...

Fashola, Odegbami, Sylvanus Okpala, Ex-Nigeria Internationals Pay Tribute To Late Sofoluwe

  By Boye Ajayi Minister of Housing and Works, Babatunde Raji Fashola and former Nigeria’s captain, Segun Odegbami, have joined several notable ex...

Northern governors: Open grazing unsustainable, unfashionable

  A temporary headstart appears to have been achieved as the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) declared open grazing as unsustainable, unfashionable and...