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Breaking: Buhari appoints Usman Alkali Baba as Ag. IGP

  President Muhammadu Buhari has announced the Deputy Inspector-General (DIG), Usman Alkali Baba, as the Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), with immediate effect....

Kenya Airways stops all flights to the U.K

Kenya Airways will stop all flights to the United Kingdom, effective April 9, 2021, Per Second News gathered. This is as a result...

49 year old man arrested for defiling 12 year old daughter in ogun state

My Father Has Been Sleeping With Me Since Age Seven, Teenage Girl Tells Police

By Boye Ajayi A 12-year-old girl (name withheld) has stormed a police station to report her defilement by her biological father since age...

Gunmen ravage Owerri prisons, state police headquarters,

Gunmen ravage Owerri prisons, state police headquarters, free hundreds of prisoners

Unidentified gunmen have launched a devastating attack on a correctional facility (prisons) in Owerri, Imo State Capital, torching it and freeing about 1,...

COVID-19 Misinformation: Facebook, WHO launch new campaign across Africa

COVID-19 Misinformation: Facebook, WHO launch new campaign across Africa

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   To connect people to accurate information and reduce misinformation on its platforms, Facebook is launching a new...

How NIRSAL Grew Seed Capital to N131bn in Three Years

Through innovative approaches and instruments aimed at eliminating risks associated with agriculture and improving funding to indigenous farmers, NIRSAL, the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk...

Buhari sued for his inaction over missing or theft of N3.8bn Health Ministry funds

“Corruption in the health sector exacerbates inequality in already unequal and unfair political, social, and economic environments, and produces a ‘cash and carry’...

Nigeria Football Supporters Club NFSC Rev. Samuel Ikpea

Nigeria Football Supporters Club Chairman, Ikpea, bags National Merit Award

The Rev. Samuel Ikpea, the National Chairman, Nigeria Football Supporters Club, has added another feather to his cap — the “National Development Merit...

Late Yinka Odumakin

Breaking: COVID-19 claims Afenifere Spokesman, Yinka Odumakin

Mr Yinka Odumakin, the spokesman for Pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has died of complications from COVID-19. According to report, the social critic has...

Fulani herdsmen on a farmland

Probe terrorist activities diguised as farmers/herders conflict, ECWA tells Buhari

  The Federal Government has been told to expeditiously treat Fulani killer-herdsmen as terrorists in a bid to clear itself of any complicity...

Mele M Kyari, GMD NNPC

Pipeline Vandalism: Kyari calms the storm

A powerful vision pulls in ideas, people and other resources. It creates the energy and will to make change happen. It inspires individuals,...

Women Empowerment: Dangote gives N160m to rural women in Kwara

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has empowered 16,000 women with N160 million across the 16 local government...

Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami

Any Nigerian without National Identity Number (NIN) risks 7 or 14 years imprisonment, says Minister

  Any Nigerian who fails to obtain his or her National Identity Number (NIN) risks seven or 14 years imprisonment, the Minister of...

Kashimawo Laloko: Demise of doyen of football coaching, talents manager

  By Boye Ajayi “As play resumed in the second half, Laloko, who had sat on the sidelines all the while as the...

Breaking: Nigerian Air Force combat aircraft missing

  A Nigerian Air Force aircraft is missing in action, the authorities announced on Thursday. Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet said in a terse...

Anap Jets expands fleet with acquisition of Embraer ERJ- 145MP aircraft

  Anap Business Jets Limited takes delivery of an Embraer ERJ-145MP aircraft, Per Second News gathered. The delivery took the fleet owned by...