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Lagos Church General Overseer Caught in Cross-Border Drug Trafficking

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dealt a significant blow to international drug trafficking with the arrest of Prophet Adefolusho Aanu...

FirstBank Champions Inclusive Fintech Innovation at Canada-Africa Fintech Summit 2025

FirstBank showcased its fintech expertise and reaffirmed its commitment to promoting inclusive financial innovation at the Canada-Africa Fintech Summit (CAFS 2025). The bank...

Breaking: Ex-Minister, PDP National Chair, Audu Ogbeh, 78, Exits

Chief Audu Ogbeh, former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is dead. Aged 78,...

Activist Sowore to be arraigned for alleged forgery, cyberstalking

Activist Omoyele Sowore is to arraigned in the court over alleged forgery, cyberstalking, and other infractions, the police have said. Sowore, who was...

Just in: WAEC admits marking errors in 2025 WASSCE scripts

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has admitted to making errors in the marking of serialized objective questions in the recently released 2025...

FG Pays Second Tranche of ₦35,000 Wage Award Arrears to Workers

The Federal Government has fulfilled its commitment to federal civil servants by paying the second tranche of the outstanding ₦35,000 wage award arrears,...

Pastor Adeboye Reveals When He’ll Leave This World: A Sunday After Church Service

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has spoken of a personal prediction about his final...

Just In: Airport Security Breach: NCAA Blacklists Fuji Legend Wasiu Ayinde Marshal for 6 Months

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), on Thursday wielded the big stick on Fuji musician, Wasiu Ayinde Marshal (K1 De Ultimate), for his...

Just in: MKO Abiola’s widow and ex-Concord MD, Doyin, exits at 82

Dr. Doyin Abiola, renowned journalist, former Managing Director of defunct Concord newspapers, and wife of the late Chief MKO Abiola, has passed away...

Police arrest sisters, couple over staged kidnapping in Abuja

Four suspects, including two sisters, have been apprehended in Abuja over a staged kidnapping scheme aimed at extorting N5 million from their father....

Tinubu Celebrates D’Tigress with $100,000, Flats, Prestigious OON Award

President Bola Tinubu has praised Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, for their historic win at the 2025 Women’s Afrobasket tournament in Cote d’Ivoire....

Tinubu, First Lady Hail D’Tigress for Making Nigeria Proud with Afrobasket Title

President Bola Tinubu and First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, have congratulated Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, on their historic victory at the 2025...

Just In: Wakama’s D’Tigress Wins Fifth Consecutive AfroBasket Title

Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, has made history by winning an unprecedented fifth consecutive AfroBasket title. The team defeated Mali 78-64 in the...

Abuja Three-Storey Building Collapse: 27-Year-Old Man Rescued After 10-Hour Ordeal

After a harrowing 10-hour ordeal, 27-year-old Nigerien national Aliyu Salisu was successfully rescued from a three-story building that collapsed on Saturday evening in...

Breaking: Nurses, Midwives Suspend Four-Day-Old Strike, to Resume Work Immediately

Four days into the week-long warning strike, the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has suspended its nationwide industrial action. According...

Mysterious Death: Fresh Babcock University Graduate Found Dead in Hostel

Tragedy struck as Akawa Boluwatife Samuel, a 20-year-old fresh graduate of Ogun State’s Babcock University’s Information Technology programme, was found “unresponsive” in his...