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President/CE, Dangote Industries Limited and Africa’s wealthiest man, Aliko Dangote on Tuesday, January 1st, 2022 received the prestigious award of the ‘Champion of CILT’ in recognition of his personal and the group’s contributions and…

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, on Wednesday, said criminals have threatened to go after him, following the anti-crime battle of his government. Abiodun had on January 21, 2022, re-launched the state joint security…

Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno, says he is sure about the sincerity of repentant insurgents. Zulum spoke on Wednesday while addressing state house correspondents after the…

Factions of the All Progressives Congress in several states that are loyal to some ministers and senators are set to lose out as the APC has perfected plans to inaugurate state chairmen loyal to the governors at the party’s…

Hoodlums have beheaded a retired policeman in Ages in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, Chris Kpatuma. Our correspondent gathered that the retired cop was killed on Tuesday. While the reason for his murder had not…

The management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has dismissed claim in some quarters that there was a kidnap attempt at the institution. On Tuesday, a video had surfaced online showing security operatives at the…

President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Thursday, depart Abuja on a four-day trip to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. The president is expected to attend the 35th ordinary session of the assembly of African Union heads of…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has withdrawn its personnel attached to Shina Peller, a member of the house of representatives. An aide to the lawmaker confirmed…

Two persons have died in a tanker explosion on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Ogun Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) reports. Mr Ahmed Umar, the Sector Commander of the FRSC told the newsmen that the accident…

President Muhammadu Buhari has extended heartfelt condolences to the Murray-Bruce family on the passing of their mother and matriarch, Margaret Murray-Bruce, aged 95. Buhari conveyed his condolences in a statement signed by…

Gunmen at the weekend hacked to death a senior staff of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) identified as Mrs Ibironke Oluremi Adefila. The deceased was said to have been killed by assailants suspected to be assassins in…

Osun State Government on Tuesday debunked the rumour of curfew in Ile-Ife and urged residents to go about their lawful businesses without hindrance. The Secretary to the State Government, Prince Wole Oyebamiji, in a statement…

At least, 10,444 vehicles have failed road worthiness test in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria in the month of January, 2022, the state government has said. Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, in a statement on…

A medical doctor Aghogho Owhojede on Tuesday said that the late Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, was not taken to a hospital for treatment. Owhojede, who has been the Oromoni family doctor for 15…

Sustained airstrikes on terrorists’ enclaves in the North West by a Nigerian Air Force aircraft has led to the killing of high profile terrorists’ leaders and their foot soldiers in…

THE convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled for February 26 is now certain to hold. The national caretaker body is writing to the Independent National…

Former governor of Edo State Adams Oshiomhole said he is not disturbed in any way, by the renaming of Edo State University Iyamho to Edo University Uzaire. Oshiomhole who founded the university and located it in his town…

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday told the federal government that it would not have any rest until all the outstanding issues affecting the country’s tertiary…

The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Lagos State has described as false purported report that Lagos State Government locked the residence of Catholic Archbishop of Lagos around the…

The clash between governors and federal lawmakers over two new clauses may affect the signing of the re-amended electoral bill, Daily Trust reports. The National Assembly had on…

Aghoho Owhojede, doctor to the family of Sylvester Oromoni, the deceased student of Dowen College in Lagos, has testified that there isn’t evidence to establish the…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the burning of his 2,420 hectares of farmland at Howe in Aliade area of Gwer East Local Government of Benue State, at the weekend. The 84-year-old ex-President and former…

The Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Mr. Tony Elumelu, yesterday, disclosed that Nigeria lost $4 billion worth of crude oil to thieves in the first nine months of 2021. Among this, he…

THE Kupoluyi Almoroof family, one of the acclaimed ruling families in Oshodi, Lagos, yesterday, announced the nomination of the Chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW,…