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Again, APC shifts presidential aspirants’ screening

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has again postponed indefinitely, the screening exercise for its presidential aspirants earlier scheduled to commence today, Monday, May...

774 councils’ autonomy gets judicial stamp as court bars governors from tampering with their funds

A landmark judgment was delivered on Monday in Abuja barring state governors from controlling and disbursing local government funds across the country. Persecondnews...

Latest Anambra killings: Mother, her four children, two others wiped out

Barely two days after a lawmaker was beheaded, another horrendous incident has occurred in Anambra State with the killing of seven persons including...

Miscreant gangs take over FCT’s Mpape tourism site — PSN check

Vagrants have taken advantage of the failure of the FCT Administration to develop the Mpape tourism site to retake and occupy the area....

Breaking: Nwabuoku appointed Acting Accountant-General of the Federation

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr Anamekwe Chukwunyere Nwabuoku as the acting Accountant-General of the Federation. Nwabuoku is to oversee the Office of...

Man City in dramatic late comeback,  retains Premier League title

Manchester City retained the Premier League title in the most dramatic of fashion as they hauled themselves back from 2-0 down to beat...

SERAP raps INEC over unpunished vote-buying, unpublished parties’ account since 2015

Living up to its billing, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to prosecute vote...

Just in: Abducted Anambra lawmaker beheaded

A lawmaker in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Okechukwu Okoye, who was kidnapped last week, has been beheaded by some unknown gunmen....

ExxonMobil reverses Omo-Ojo, veteran image-maker’s sack three years after

After three years of his sack by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, reprieve has come the way of a veteran image-maker, Ernest Omo-Ojo, following...

Danish national’s daredevil stunts finally end in disaster, to be hanged in Lagos for killing wife, daughter

A dare-devil Danish national, Peter Nielsen, who smothered his wife and three-year-old daughter in the wee-hours in 2018, has a date with the...

Protest rocks Abuja over six Council Chairmen tenure elongation, refusal to swear in new ones

Protest has continued to trail the suspension of the inauguration of newly elected six area council chairmen in the Federal Capital Territory. Supporters...

Few hours of runway shutdown over security breach, flight operations resume at Lagos airport

After shutting down the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, lkeja, following a security breach, flight operations resumed on Friday afternoon. The mangled body of...

Lagos airport shut over security breach as man’s mangled body found on runway

The mangled body of a man found on Runway 18R of the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, has forced...

Malnutrition looms as acute food insecurity hits 14.5 million Nigerians

Due to the rising food prices as a result of insecurity and other factors, 14.5 million Nigerians currently suffer from acute food insecurity,...

Nigeria Exchange Group ranks Dangote Cement as 2021 best performing stock

Africa’s largest cement manufacturer, Dangote Cement Plc, has emerged the Best Performing Stock of the Year 2021 by the Nigeria Exchange Group (NGX)....