A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State yesterday threw out the suit challenging the candidature of Senator Ademola Adeleke as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the July 16 governorship election in the state. The trial…
Some residents of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), yesterday, staged a protest against what they described as selfish moves by the outgoing area council chairmen and councilors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to allegedly…
Weak minds rarely possess big ambitions and often loses faith and hope to carry on big responsibilities. On the other hand, strong minds refuses to give up because of their strength, resilience, scepter-like straightness and warrior-like…
Federal government has reaffirmed its commitment to achieving the global targets geared towards ending AIDS by 2030. The director-general of the National Agency for the Country of AIDS (NACA), Dr. Sambo Aliyu, made this known at the 6th…
An operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Vincent Kwanbuge, has narrated to a Federal High Court in Lagos how a couple, Oladeji and Omotayo Henry allegedly defrauded their victims of N555.82 million. Kwanbuge, who…
Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako, of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has struck out the amended six-count treasonable felony charge the federal government filed against the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra …
The national leadership of the youth wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has invited all presidential aspirants on the party’s platform to a town hall meeting. The town hall meeting billed to hold in Abuja on Friday 27 and Saturday…
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other presidential aspirants to raise money in…
It appeared yesterday that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are entangled in a game of hide-and-seek apparently in a bid to outwit each other with the outcomes of their primaries ahead of the 2023…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has restated the need to designate gas as a transition fuel in the global net-zero emissions target by 2060 even as he observes that Africa is now winning that argument. Osinbajo spoke when he received a…
Ahead of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries, a coalition of the party in Sokoto State has called for the adoption of a direct mode of primaries in order to ensure that the most popular candidate with the widest network within…
The Katsina State police command said its detectives have succeeded in killing six bandits, and recovering one AK47 rifle and numerous cows, sheep and goats during a gunfight with the hoodlums in Dustinma Local Government Area (LGA) of the…
A group under the aegis of Niger Youth Movement (NYM) has called on the voters in the state to use their ballot wisely in choosing the visional leader that will take the state forward. The youth group said, from their assessment of all the…
Federal government has approved N169 billion in private sector investments for road infrastructure through the government’s Tax Credit Programme. The minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), disclosed this to State House…
As entrepreneurs make effort to boost job creation, production, and export, co-founders of Field, Michael Moreland, Justin Lorenzon, and Peter Bunor made Endeavor’s Global Network of High Impact Entrepreneurs under the auspices of Endeavor…
Commercial activities were brought to a standstill yesterday in the popular Dei Dei Timber and Furniture Market as commercial motorcyclists protesting the burning of a member’s motorcycle went on rampage. The motorcycle riders allegedly…
Fidelity Bank is poised to deepen its support to the small and medium enterprises as part of measures to strengthen Nigerian economy, the bank’s executive director, North Directorate, Hassan Imam has said. Speaking, on Tuesday, when he…
What is left to be done or, in fairness to some of the current authorities in Nigeria, is being done now is the mitigation of the severe effects of the failure of the various sections of leadership at all levels. Almost all the measures…
Recently, there have been claims and counter-claims as well as denials about plots by some groups urging their kins in other regions to relocate back home where their safety is, measurably, guaranteed. Some of these groups were alleged to…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a former managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Nsima Ekere, for alleged diversion of funds to the tune of N47 billion through registered…
Niger Delta Elders’ Forum (NDEF) has again urged President Muhammadu Buhari to end what it called ongoing illegality in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), and comply with the law setting up the Commission, fulfil his promise of…
The federal government has disclosed that it has no plan of banning social media platform, Facebook, in Nigeria over the use of the platform by separatist groups to incite violence. Minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed,…
Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, has alleged fresh plot by some officials of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) allegedly working for external forces to exclude the opposition party in the…
President Muhammadu Buhari will decide the fate of ministers who dumped their political ambitions and restated their intention to continue to serve in the current administration. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed…
As Sanwo-Olu assures justice BY GEORGE OKOJIE, Lagos Following the gruesome murder of a sound engineer identified as David Imoh by some commercial motorcyclists popularly known as Okada riders in Lekki axis of Lago State, a Taskforce, on…
Accountant-general of the Federation Idris Ahmed has been suspended by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed over his alleged embezzlement of public funds to the tune of N80 billion. Spokesman to the minister,…
The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has launched a Taxi App for the operations of FAAN Taxi at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Speaking at the ceremony at the airport in Abuja, the managing director of FAAN,…
The Ministry of Police Affairs has donated 34 vehicles to the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). Speaking at the event which took place at the Force headquarters in Abuja, on Wednesday, the Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi,…
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, a leading Presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] has urged the delegates of the PDP in Bayelsa to be open-minded and not be sentimental when they cast their vote to elect the presidential…
Two ministers, Abubakar Malami, SAN and Pauline Tallen, who made u-turn about their interest in vying for elective offices respectively in the 2023 elections, were part of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, presided over by…