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Non-deployment of technology: LASTMA official crushed trying to arrest erring motorist

More than two years that the Lagos State Government promised to deploy technology to track traffic violations as a state road traffic manager,...

Height of political insensitivity, open invitation to thievery, Afenifere reacts to cost of APC, PDP forms

The Pan Yoruba Socio-political group, Afenifere, has reacted to the exorbitant cost of expression of interest and nomination forms fixed by both the...

APC fixes N100m for Presidential Form, PDP N40m

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced N100 million for the presidential form ahead of its primary scheduled for end of May 2022....

Nigeria Air Force aircraft crashes in Kaduna, two pilots feared dead

Again, an aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has crashed in Kaduna State, killing two pilots. The aircraft was said to...

Ivory Coast’s President tips CBN governor as his deputy

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has named the governor of a regional central bank, Mr Tiemoko Meyliet Kone, as his deputy, paving the...

Uzodinma to Babalola: Call for interim govt in 2023 an invitation to anarchy

Legal icon and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Afe Babalola’s call for an interim administration in lieu of the 2023 polls is a...

BREAKING: After months of suspense, Lagos Gov. Sanwo-Olu gets Tinubu’s nod for second term

Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been given the nod to contest the 2023 poll for a second term on the platform of the...

School authority threatened to kill my daughter if she speaks out, mother of Chrisland pupil in viral ‘rape’ video says

The mother of a 10-year-old student of Chrisland School, Victoria Island Garden City (VGC), in Lekki area of Lagos, who was filmed being...

Calling Nigerian youths lazy without providing uninterrupted electricity abusive, unacceptable — Tinubu

As the race for the nation’s president’s seat hots up, President Muhammadu Buhari administration has received a bashing for failures recorded in some...

Pardon for Dariye, Nyame: Impunity for corruption, rubbishes judicial powers — SERAP

"Presidential pardon for corruption cases is inconsistent with the rule of law, and the public interest, as it undermines the principle of equality...

Presidential race: I’m for Tinubu, not Osinbajo, says Bayo Onanuga, PM News publisher

Mr Bayo Onanuga, a former Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and publisher, PM News, has denied jumping the ship of...

Abuja-Kaduna train attack: 19 days after NGF commiserates with Kaduna

The Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), and Ekiti Gov. Kayode Fayemi on Friday led a two-man delegation of the forum to...

State of the nation: Nigeria is limping, needs fresh start, new thinking, new beginning — Emeka Anyaoku

Disturbed by the current Socio-economic and political state of Nigeria, octogenarian Chief Emeka Anyaoku says the country is limping and underperforming.

Stolen N2.7bn public funds: Jailed ex-Govs Dariye, Nyame get presidential pardon

Persecondnews reports that both Dariye and Nyame are part of the 159 convicts

FG announces national census for April 2023

April 2023 has been fixed tentatively for national census by Federal Government, Persecondnews reports. As a prelude to the 2023 general census, a...

Abuja-Kaduna train attack: Boko Haram/bandits collaboration — FG 

The Federal Government has disclosed that the recent attack on the Abuja-Kaduna train was a collaboration between bandits and the “dislodged” Boko Haram...