As the All Progressives Congress, Ondo State Chapter prepares for its governorship primaries, two stakeholders in the party have expressed support for the direct mode of primaries. The senator representing Ondo North Senatorial District, Ajayi Borof…
The NYSC has said 29 corps members will repeat service year in Ondo, Katsina, Ogun for various offences. In Ondo State, five corps members will repeat the service over alleged abscondment during the service year. Nine other corps members also had th…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said close to $1bn was “stolen under a previous, undemocratic junta in the 1990s.” Buhari, in an article published in Newsweek, a United States-based magazine, expressed appreciation to the “friendly nations” that retu…
Ogun, Adamawa, Oyo and Lagos states are currently topping the list of states with the highest number of presidential aides in an updated list prepared by the Presidency. The 142 aides on the list are attached to the President Muhammadu Buhari his wi…
President Muhammadu Buhari has Saturday approved the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), after the expiration of the term of the board members appointed in 2016. The Special Adviser to the President, Me…
The tragedy occurred in the early hours of Saturday, May 30, 2020, when fire gutted Olaleye Market in Somolu, Bariga area of Lagos State in which several items and properties worth billions of naira were destroyed. Director-General, Lagos State Emer…
Kylie Jenner has dismissed a report by Forbes that accused her and her family of inflating her financial worth and forging tax returns. The bombshell report by Forbes said that Kylie is no longer a billionaire and she had lied all these years. The p…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday described the five years of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a waste. The opposition party said its verdict on the APC-led federal government was tha…
Electricity supply is expected to rise to 11,000 megawatts by 2023 under an agreement with the German firm Siemens, Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed said on Friday. According to him, it will first grow to 7,000MW by the end of next year…
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Friday warned that a fresh coronavirus lockdown was imminent in the state if residents continued to disobey the safety rules of physical distancing and wearing of face masks. The governor, in a broadcast to ma…
Tyson Fury has predicted he will knock out Anthony Joshua inside three rounds – with a left hook. The heavyweight world champions are on a collision course for 2021, assuming they both come through their respective title defences. Fury must defeat D…
Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers said he could hardly walk after contracting the novel coronavirus in March but he has since made a full recovery. Rodgers is the second manager to confirm he had a positive test for COVID-19 after Arsenal manag…
Air Peace has evacuated 301 Chinese from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China. Mr Stanley Olisa, Spokesman of the airline, said in a statement on Friday that the evacuation which…
The Former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, is dead. He passed on at 60. According to a tweet by the present GMD, Mele Kyari, Baru died on Saturday midnight. He described him as a brother,…
US President Donald Trump on Friday said he was severing ties with the World Health Organization, signalling the end of hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the UN agency as the deadly coronavirus pandemic rages on. As Europe speeded along …
Nigeria’s Coronavirus infections have surpassed 9,000 with the addition of 387 new cases on Friday. According to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, the nation now has 9,302 confirmed cases of Coronavirus, as the deadly virus continues to…
Derek Chauvin, the sacked Minneapolis police officer shown on video fatally putting his knee on the neck of African-American George Floyd has been arrested. Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington said the dismissed cop was taken into c…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has discharged former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke in the alleged examination malpractices trial involving him and four others. Justice Inyang Ekwo,…
Five people have been killed by gunmen who attacked a food joint in Miango Community, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. It was learnt that the victims were eating at the canteen in Nzharuvo Miango when the gunmen attacked them, killing a…
A CNN crew was arrested by police Friday morning while giving a live television report in Minneapolis, where the crew was covering ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd. The crew, including correspondent Omar Jimenez, were handcuffed and d…
Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi has tipped Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount to become “one of the best” footballers in the world. Mount, who was playing on loan at Derby County last season under current boss Frank Lampard, has been brilliant in his d…
The Reconciliation Committee of the Oyo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has held its inaugural meeting at the State Secretariat of the party in Ibadan. The State Chairman of the party, Chief Akin Oke, who inaugurated a 16-member…
The Federal Government is yet to receive the ventilators promised by U.S. President Donald Trump. Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this at the daily briefing of the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19. The U.S. President…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday said “no decision” had been taken regarding a US push for an outside probe into its president, Akinwumi Adesina accused by whistleblowers of ethics breaches. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says W…
The Nigeria Police Force says it granted cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, bail because it is “mindful of the people” it takes into custody. Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba said that Bobrisky was arrested in connec…
A former Secretary to Delta State Government (SSG), Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay has felicitated with the Governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa on his fifth year anniversary in office. In a goodwill message to commemorate the anniversary, Ma…
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, has said President Muhammadu Buhari would receive more recommendations from the PTF on Sunday. He stated this during the PTF briefing in Abuja on Thursday, saying the report wou…
Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, said yesterday Nigerians have started selling COVID-19 diagnostic test kits in “black markets”. Speaking at the Presidential Task Force briefing yesterday in Abuja, …
Two National Youth Service Corps members who met and fell in love during their service year will wed by 5am on Saturday (May 30) to avoid crowd in line with COVID-19 safety protocols. The wedding of Felicia Haruna from Kaduna State and Mark Makafan …
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday ordered a “fierce” military operation against bandits in Sokoto State. The directive came following Wednesday’s attacks in the Sabon Birni Local Government Area of the state, which left many people dead and ot…
President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the House of Representatives to request for the approval of fresh external borrowings totalling $5.513bn. Buhari, in the letter read by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, at the plen…
The operator of the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Primero Transport Services Ltd., says it will restore services on Friday, following talks with the Lagos State Government over withdrawal of its services. The BRT operator had withdrawn its services…
US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday after threatening to shutter social media platforms following Twitter’s move to label two of his tweets misleading. After long resisting calls to censure Trump over his truth-…
The Police Command in Nasarawa State has confirmed the abduction of Bishop Joseph Masin, the state Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), by gunmen in Lafia. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Bola Longe, confirmed the deve…
Demonstrators clashed with police, looted stores and set fires as a man was fatally shot during a second night of protests in the US city of Minneapolis Wednesday over the killing of a black man by a police officer. Police fired tear gas and formed …
Retired English professional footballer, Peter Crouch who hopes to represent the Super Eagles, has joked about obtaining a Nigerian passport. So excited to get my Nigerian passport through today #gosupereagles 👍🏻 — Peter Crouch (@petercrouch) May …
The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, on Wednesday, alleged that the Dr. Kayode Fayemi-led administration had sold the State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja. The state PDP Caretaker Committee Secretary, Diran Odeyemi, asked the governor…
Over 200 bandits have been killed by the army between Zamfara and Katsina states in multiple air strikes. The strike was conducted at Ibrahim Mai’Bai’s Camp in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State and Kurmin Kura in Zurmi of Zamfara State be…
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