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Nigerians are hungry, want president who will give them food, unperturbed by APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket – Keyamo

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN) has owned up to the current reality of hunger ravaging the...

Terminals’ concession: NPA says 2006 agreements untenable, to ratify new agreements with five terminal operators

  Following the expiration of the concession agreements with five terminal operators in the industry, the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says it is...

Industrial Court ruling: FG orders VCs, Pro-Chancellors to reopen varsities

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has ordered vice-chancellors to re-open the nation’s public universities immediately for commencement of lectures. A directive to this...

Repatriation of $23m Abacha loot: SERAP hales Buhari, Malami to court over unpublished agreement with U.S.

For alleged defiance of the Federal Government in publishing the details of the agreement it signed with the United States for the repatriation...

We don’t operate secret account, all accounts domiciled in CBN, NNPCL clarifies

The Nigeria National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) says with such multiple layers of checks and balances by the Federal Government departments and agencies,...

For the umpteenth time, Wike jets out of Nigeria after Friday’s explosive media chat

Again, Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike, has travelled to London after he addressed a televised “explosive” media chat on Friday at the Government House,...

Alleged assault on policewoman: MKO Abiola’s widow and lawyer, Prof. Duke-Abiola, remanded in prison

For allegedly assaulting a policewoman, Prof. Zainab Duke-Abiola, lawyer and human rights activist and one of the widows of Chief MKO Abiola, was...

Worship4Change to raise N75m for orphans, children with special needs, others

  Worship4Change, a leading non-profit organization in Nigeria, will On October 3, 2022 stage a benefit concert, tagged, “Green Worship 5.0”. The concert...

Just in: 5 people trapped, 2 rescued as another three-storey building collapses in Lagos

Another building has collapsed in Lagos metropolis, this time a three-storey building at Oyesonuga Street on Isolo Road in Mushin. At least, five...

RCCG pastor bags two years in jail for issuing $1.6m dud cheque

Guilt-racked Ayodeji Oluokun, a Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), City of David Parish, Victoria Island, Lagos, has been convicted...

UNGA 77: Gambari, governors, others laud Buhari’s avowed commitment to credible, fair elections in 2023

The Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, some state governors and ministers on Nigeria’s delegation to the United Nations 77th...

Just in: Senate confirms Ariwoola as Chief Justice of Nigeria

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Justice Olukayode Ariwoola as the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Persecondnews reports that the Senate...

Breaking: Call off your strike, court orders ASUU

The National Industrial Court, Abuja, on Wednesday directed the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off their year-long ongoing strike. Justice...

We won’t participate in Atiku’s campaign until Ayu resigns, say Wike, others

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and other aggrieved stalwarts of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have pulled out of the campaign Council...

N5.28trn owed by states: Lagos State leads them all with N797.3 bn

Of the N5.281 trillion owed by the states in the country, Lagos State has topped the list of highly indebted states with about...