Highlight

Power outage: Rights groups join call for revocation of 11 DisCos’ licences as PENGASSAN, electricity workers insist

For the umpteenth time, the Federal Government has been urged to revoke the licences of the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) in the...

Unspeakable horrors: Two women’s corpses buried in hospital medical director’s office

The remains of two females have been exhumed from a shallow grave in the office of the Chief Medical Director of Kwara State-owned...

Declare your assets before exiting office in 2023, SERAP tells Buhari, cabinet members

President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to publish his assets declared before the Code of Conduct Bureau at the end of his tenure...

Indonesian stadium tragedy: 174 dead, 180 injured

No fewer 174 people died in a crush at an Indonesian football match, one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. Also 180 were...

Nigeria At 62: Buhari honors Chimamanda, Elumelu, Kyari, 434 others (See Full List)

Award-winning Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is among the list of 437 nominees for the National Honours Awards 2022. Persecondnews.com gathered that the...

Devastating blow: Defeated Osun Governor Oyetola’s candidature for July 16 poll nullified

Another devastating blow has hit the defeated Governor Isiaka Oyetola of Osun as a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, nullified his nomination...

Tinubu, Atiku’ candidature: Court fixes Buhari’s ex-Minister Nwajiuba’s suit against duo for October 6

An Abuja Federal High Court has fixed October 6 for the hearing a suit seeking to disqualify the Presidential Candidate of the All...

Just in: Ibrahim Gusau elected new NFF President

A new President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has been elected. He is Ibrahim Musa Gusau. Gusau was emerged at the NFF’s...

Expedite work on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, Leventis Bridge on Apapa-Wharf Road, NPA MD, Bello-Koko tells contractors

Worried by the slow pace of work on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway and the Leventis Bridge on the Apapa-Wharf Road and its impact on...

24 hours to political campaigns, Court nullifies Ogun PDP guber candidate, Adebutu, others’ primary elections

Just 24 hours to the commencement of political campaigns, the Federal High Court in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, has nullified the primary elections...

Wike-Ayu faceoff: Ortom ‘betrays’ close ally, Wike, kicks against Ayu’s removal

  As the face-off between Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, the National Chairman of the PDP festers, the Governor...

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,...