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The former governors of Delta State, James Ibori and Emmanuel Uduaghan have been linked by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, to the contracts awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission. Others on the list…

Bishop David Oyedepo, the General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, a.k.a Winners Chapel, has said fire would fall the next time there is an attempt to close churches. Naija News reports…

Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua has offered ‘virtual prayer’ for healing for those afflicted with COVID-19 in an Isolation Centre in Honduras, Central America. A video posted to Emmanuel TV’s YouTube Channel showed the prominent…

Filling station owners are currently in panic buying mood, as many of them are stockpiling products ahead of the announcement of a new pump price for petrol in August, investigation has shown. It was also gathered…

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar for lacking the locus standi and moral right to ask President Muhammadu Buhari to apologise to…

Founder of Chris Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has said it is a shame for African leaders, including President Muhammadu Buhari to be travelling to Europe and America to get medication…

For four days running, Nigeria’s Coronavirus infections have nosedived, with a further drop on Sunday to send message of hope that the nation will soon overcome the pandemic. On…

The United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has described as false the news making the rounds that some of its principal officers had been indicted in an alleged N41 billion fraud involving the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited…

The widow of late former Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, Florence, has described her late husband as her greatest supporter and strength. She spoke while playing host to a delegation of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Oyo…

With schools reopening for graduating pupils this week after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, parents of pupils in private secondary schools in Ogun State on Sunday kicked against the request of N25,000 COVID-19…

Pastor Tunde Bakare, the serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), has warned against the reopening of churches as directed by the Lagos State Government. During his…

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, is not enjoying the best of times. Having unceremoniously removed acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission…

Ogun state government has mandated all returning students in boarding houses to undergo Malaria and COVID-19 tests as prepare to resume for academic activities nationwide on Monday, August 3. In a statement released today August 1, Ronke…

A 72-year-old man died on an Air Peace Flight P47182 from Calabar to Abuja Flight P47182 on Friday. According to reports, the man allegedly had a case of paraplegia due to spinal injury since 2019 and was travelling for medical check-up in…

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, said the COVID-19 isolation centre in highbrow Eti-Osa LGA has been closed down, with effect from Friday night. Also closed down are the…

The Oyo State Government has settled the rift with Florence, the widow of a former Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi. This was revealed by the Oyo State Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, when…

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has said nobody in the All Progressives Congress has the right to prevent the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,…

The Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says the state is recording cases of people treating themselves for malaria only for them to realise after testing that it is…

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi says Nigerian government has the capability to pay back loans collected for the construction of rail projects within the stipulated period…

•Lagos, Ondo fumigate institutions ahead of Tuesday resumption •Cross River stockpiles café masks for distribution to students •No face mask, no entry in Anambra schools Anxiety is sweeping across the country as…

Nigeria has recorded a massive drop in Coronavirus infections as the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, recorded a spike again for the third day. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC,…

Oyo State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Rauf Olaniyan, on Saturday said the state government’s decision to finance developmental projects through N100 billion bond was in order. Olaniyan told…

The Nigerian Army on Saturday said its troops under the Operation SAHEL SANITY had killed 80 bandits and arrested 33 suspected bandits in the ongoing clearance operation against banditry in…

The Presidency has dissociated itself from the views expressed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, Malam Mamman Daura, in a recent interview with the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting…