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Buhari’s ex-Minister, Sylva, picks APC’s ticket for Bayelsa guber poll in November

The immediate past Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has won the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary...

INEC, EFCC hire SANs, 16 other lawyers to prosecute 2023 electoral offenders

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) have jointly hired a team of 18 lawyers to...

Insurgency: 2,295 teachers killed in 13 years, 6,800 children’s rights violated in Northeast — UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Nigeria, Christian Munduate, on Friday lamented that no fewer than 2,295 teachers have been killed...

FG to install luggage scanners worth N495m in Abuja, Kaduna, Kano railway station

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the provision and installation of baggage scanners in Abuja, Kaduna and Kano railway stations. The...

Seven-storey building crumbles in Lagos Island, many feared dead

Another multi-storey building has collapsed in Lagos with several people trapped. The building still under construction collapsed at Banana Island in the Ikoyi...

May 29: Nothing must stop Tinubu’s inauguration as President, Northern elders warn

A Coalition of Northern Elders have warned that nothing must stop the inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the next President of Nigeria...

One-time Anambra Governor, Chinwoke Mbadinuju, bids the world farewell

  A former Governor of Anambra State, Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju, a.k.a Odera is dead. He passed on peacefully at the age of 78...

Nonagenarian Clark drops a bomb, accuses Lai Mohammed of stoking division, hatred among Nigerians

“Therefore, I am of the opinion that he should be charged for spreading an unhealthy information and fake news against an innocent Nigerian...

Women Group drums support for Imo APC’s Princess Onouha as Speaker of 10th Assembly

In pursuit of women’s inclusion in the top hierarchy of the Federal legislative arm of government, women drummed support for the candidature of...

Just in: Ex-Justice Minister, nonagenarian Bola Ajibola, exits

A former Minister of Justice and ex-judge at the World Court at the Hague, Prince Bola Ajibola, has passed on. Aged 89 years,...

Large Cobra in cockpit forces plane’s emergency landing

A venomous big snake crawling into pilot’s seat mid air had forced an emergency landing in South Africa. Report said a South African...

Petrol subsidy removal: World Bank releases $800m to FG for palliatives

The Federal Government says it has received an $800 million World Bank grant for petrol subsidy palliatives ahead of subsidy removal in June....

Nigeria’s 2060 net-zero emission target: NSIA, Vitol seal joint venture deal for carbon avoidance, carbon removal project

"I am particularly pleased that this initiative is a Joint Venture between two important players in their respective fields, targeting one common goal:...

Benue State has been run aground, civil service in “intensive care unit”, Governor-elect, Alia

Benue State has been run aground with the current administration owing backlog of salaries, pensions and gratuities, Governor-elect, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has...

Save me from fake news, Prof. Soyinka cries out as he put $1000 bounty on authors

Worried by fake news and his misrepresentation in the media, elder statesman and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has announced a $1000 reward...

Sacked! NASENI boss, Prof. Haruna

Prof. Mohammed Haruna, the Executive Vice-Chairman, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), has been given the boot. Haruna is to vacate...