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Breaking: Atiku flies to Dubai on health grounds

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate for the 2023 poll, Atiku Abubakar, is set to travel to Dubai again. Persecondnews learnt a...

Port Harcourt refinery to become functional by December 2022- Sylva

Barring any hitch, the ongoing rehabilitation work on the 60,000 barrels-per-day capacity Port Harcourt refinery will be completed by December this year and...

Officials, journalists, others may miss UNGA over U.S. embassy’s visa refusal

The long-awaited United Nations General Assembly meeting (UNGA) began in New York, United States, yesterday, but some Nigerian officials and accredited and non-accredited...

ASUU strike: NANS blocking of Lagos-Ibadan expressway, violation of law —  FG

The Federal Government on Wednesday described a protest staged by members of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Tuesday, blocking the...

Nigeria’s power sector privatization: Electricity workers call owners of power coys ‘hustlers, hawks’, demand reversal

Unimpressed with the performance of the electricity distribution companies and others following the privatization of the power sector in about 12 years ago,...

NNPCL set to seal $25bn 7,000km gas pipeline deal with Morrocco, ECOWAS

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL) is to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on a 7,000km gas pipeline project with National...

Over 300 lives lost to flood disasters in Nigeria in 2022, says NEMA

  At least, 300 people have so far been killed in flood disaster across Nigeria in 2022, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA),...

Southwest PDP joins “Ayu-must-go” growing call as Atiku gets rousing welcome in Ibadan

The call for the resignation of the National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has gained traction in the...

Nigerians worse off today under APC govt., says PDP”s Atiku Abubakar

Nigerians are worse off today than they were before the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration took office in 2015, this verdict came on Tuesday from...

Vice- President Osinbajo arrives in Nairobi for Kenya’s President Ruto’s inauguration

Nigeria’s Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has arrived in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital for the inauguration of President William Ruto. The event holding at Kasarani...

Just in: Industrial Court adjourns FG’s suit against ASUU till Sept. 16 as three SANs brace up for legal tango

The National Industrial Court, Abuja, on Monday adjourned the Federal Government’s suit against the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) until Friday,...

Serving Senator Escapes HairBreadth Assassination, Four Policemen Killed

The security situation in Southeast Anambra State took another frightening dimension on Sunday as some gunmen opened fire on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah’s convoy,...

ASUU’s year-long strike: SERAP, students outsmart FG, charge it to Industrial Arbitration Court

For its alleged lack of commitment to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability...

Seven-month strike: FG ambushes ASUU, hauls it before Industrial Arbitration Court

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may have boxed itself to a corner over the current intractable labour crisis as the Federal...

New United Kingdom monarch, Charles III, takes oath, two days after Queen Elizabeth exits

Charles III has taken oath as he was proclaimed UK monarch at an elaborate ceremony at St James’ Palace, London on Saturday. The...

Queen Elizabeth II’s passing: Britain to transit to King Charles money after the nation’s mourning period

The passing of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday has left the United Kingdom with an imminent raft of changes starting with its money...