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The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has made a U-turn by suspending its planned prayer and fasting sessions aimed at seeking divine intervention to end hunger in the country. This comes just days after…

..we were tempted to move the corpses to the highway – Community leader About 200 persons, including five security personnel and internally displaced persons, IDPs, as well as children and women, have been…

Airline Operators of Nigeria, AON, Friday, expressed dismay over the conduct of former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, saying it is unacceptable and another example of the…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) has declared that it made N5.89 trillion in revenue in April 2025. A document titled ‘NNPC Limited Monthly Report Summary – April 2025’, posted on the national oil…

Fourteen months after the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja was shut down for renovation, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, alongside the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, inaugurated the rehabilitated facility on…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to flag off the construction of the new headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja. Our correspondents report that the flag-off of the new…

The family of late Chief Moshood Abiola has demanded details of the reported N45bn debt owed it by the Federal Government. The call followed a recent statement by former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, who appealed…

The Nigerian Presidency has debunked reports suggesting that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu conferred national honours on activist Aisha Yesufu and others…

Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja has transferred the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra to the headquarters of the Department of State Services. Kanu’s trial…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has conferred a national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) on Labaran Maku, former Minister of Information and Supervising Minister of Defence, raising questions about the…

Jesam Michael, Chief Executive Officer of Afriq Arbitrage System Limited, was on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes…

Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), says those criticising the N39 billion spent renovating the Abuja International Conference Centre (AICC) “do not have good taste”. The minister spoke on…

Halima Buba, the chief executive officer of SunTrust Bank Nigeria Limited, has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over…

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has directed aviation agencies to investigate the incident at Murtala Muhammed  Airport Zulu terminal, Lagos. A row broke out on Wednesday at the…

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and 1999 presidential candidate, Olu Falae, has claimed that he, not Olusegun Obasanjo, won the election that ushered Nigeria back to civilian rule. Speaking on Arise…

Boko Haram insurgents recently launched fresh ferocious attacks on some communities in Adamawa state, the third in the last two months. The attacks came from an area that borders the dreaded Sambisa forest, base of…

Bello el-Rufai, a member of the house of representatives, says he was naive for criticising Goodluck Jonathan during the latter’s stint…

Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory has suspended Shehu Ahmad, the Executive Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory Development Agency. Ahmad’s suspension was announced by Lere…

President Bola Tinubu has expressed his pleasure over the litany of the crisis rocking the major opposition parties in the country. The president made his stance on the opposition to these political crisis known…

Seriake Dickson, the former governor of Bayelsa State has slammed President Bola Tinubu over the state of emergency and suspension of Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State. Speaking while commemorating the 26th Democracy…

A former Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Thursday, June 12, said that the National Assembly is gradually becoming a shadow of itself. Saraki stated that the National Assembly seems to have lost the vibrancy and the…

President Bola Tinubu has said that his administration is doing everything possible to make the agricultural sector attractive for Nigerians and investors. Speaking while delivering the 26th Democracy Day Speech at…

LEKAN Abiola, one of the children of the late Moshood Kashimawo, MKO, Abiola, winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, elections, yesterday, disclosed that former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida…

The last surviving female twin to be rescued by Mary Slessor, a Scottish Missionary in Arochukwu Ancient Kingdom of Abia, over a century ago, Madam Malinda Mgbafor Okereke, otherwise called Mama Nsu Bekee, is…