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Tinubu: No VP candidate yet, submits surrogate Masari to beat INEC deadline

ln a bid to beat the June 17 deadline of INEC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential flagbearer of the All Progressives Congress has...

Breaking: Doyin Okupe announces self as LP vice-presidential candidate

Dr Doyin Okupe, the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to former President Olusegun Obasanjo is the running mate of Labour Party’s Presidential...

Akeredolu to Governors: Let’s challenge FG’s excesses, powers

Worried by the over-centralization of authority in the hands of the Federal Government, Ondo State Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) has urged the governors...

Breaking: Burning Overland plane makes emergency landing in Lagos

A near ill-fated flight has been averted as Overland Airways made a successful landing of a distressed aircraft on the Runway 18R of...

Just in: Okowa is Atiku’s running mate

The opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) may have finally settled for Delta Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa as running mate of the party’s presidential candidate,...

Pakistan’s ex-president Pervez Musharraf’s organs failing,family says he’s in final hours

Pakistan's defence minister also gave his blessing to Gen Musharraf's return and said the former dictator should be able to spend the rest...

Protracted ASUU strike: Issue with unions not as simple as many think, says FG

The issues surrounding the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and three other university-based unions are not as simple...

Another crisis hits Nigeria’s Education sector: COEASU  declares indefinite strike

More troubles for the nation’s Education sector as the Council of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) declares indefinite strike. This was...

U.S. Police launch man-hunt for Nigerian national, Nwobodo, for killing, dismembering woman

A Nigerian national, Chukwuebuka Nwobodo, 28, has been declared wanted for murder and tampering with evidence, Police in Houston, Texas, in U S....

30-year-old man bags life imprisonment for defiling JSS 3 student

A 30-year-old man, Shola Oguntuase, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ado-Ekiti High Court for defiling a 14-year-old JSS 3 student....

Democracy Day: Slumping three soldiers cause stir at Pres. Buhari’s parade in Abuja

Apparently succumbing to  exhaustion, three soldiers slumped on Monday at the Eagles Square, venue of the military parade to mark June 12 Democracy...

16 days after, another Bishop, wife abducted, N50m ransom demanded

Barely 16 days after the abduction of the Methodist Church Prelate, Dr. Kanu-Uche, and N100 million ransom paid, another senior Christian cleric, the...

2023 presidential poll: Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket not acceptable to us, CAN tells APC

Following the emergence of Chief Bola Tinubu as the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate for the 2023 poll, the Christian Association of...

SERAP to Tinubu, Atiku, other presidential candidates: Publish your assets ahead 2023 polls

  Ahead of the 2023 polls for transparency and accountability, presidential candidates of the various parties have been asked to urgently publish the...

Just in: 11 abductees of Abuja-Kaduna train regain freedom

About 75 days after, 11 of the 61 passengers kidnapped in the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna train have been set free, Persecondnews has learnt. Those...

Non-swearing-in of chairmen, councillors: Protest paralyzes government, business activities at FCT Secretariat

Aggrieved youths under the auspices of the Original Inhabitants of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday staged a protest for several hours...