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Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, says those behind the parallel state congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, are only trying to damage the party. A faction loyal to James Faleke, running mate to the late…

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has said that Plateau people would not change their decision of voting massively for President Muammadu Buhari during the 2019 Presidential election. Governor Lalong said this, on Saturday,…

Federal Government has put in place workable funding mechanism to ensure completion of the  Second Niger Bridge, the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said. Fashola gave the assurance  on Saturday when…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would on Monday start distributing Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) to newly registered eligible voters in Lagos State, its spokesman, Femi Akinbiyi, has said. He told the News Agency…

Members of All Progressives Congress, APC held two different congresses to elect new executive for the state chapter of the party on Saturday. In a move that can be interpreted as a challenge of former governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday congratulated human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), on his 60th birthday. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President said he joined…

Aminu Nurudeen Amin, a journalist with Liberty Radio/TV allegedly behind the gaffe video of the Inspector General of Police, IDRIS Kpotu has denied media reports that he has gone into hiding and wanted by the police. Reports emerged…

Following is the text of the address by U.S. Episcopalian bishop, Michael Bruce Curry, at the wedding of Britain’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle, as released by Kensington Palace on Saturday.…

The Nigerian Army said two female suicide bombers were killed on Friday while trying to infiltrate troops in Kawuri, Konduga local government area of Borno State. The Deputy Director of Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation…

The former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Mr. Kole Ajayi, is dead. Ajayi, a lawyer, reportedly died of heart attack on Friday while traveling to Lagos for a function of Ekiti State…

Doctors at FMC Yola achieved a great feat on May 14, as they separated four month old conjoined female twins. The team of surgeons led by the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yola, Professor…

Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma, the Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Provence, Anglican Communion, has raised an alarm over the medical bills for the burial of former Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme. According to Archbishop Chukwuma,…

Alhaji Tunde Balogun has emerged the Lagos State chairman of the All Progressives Congress. There was no election as the new state executives were chosen based on affirmation by the delegates. The Chairman of the state APC…

Anti-graft detectives are closing in on Bamikole Omishore, an aide to Senate President Bukola Saraki who was recently exposed for allegedly using his wife as a ghost-worker, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.Official confirmation and other…

The Nigerian Air Force said its newly acquired Mi-35M helicopter gunships have successfully unleashed their firepower on Boko Haram Terrorists at a camp, 9.7km South East of Bonne in its ongoing “Operation Thunder Strike” The NAF’s…

The supreme court has discharged and acquitted Alban Ajaegbu, one of the suspects, accused of killing Ikechukuwu Okoronkwo, an 11-year-old, in Owerri, Imo state. Okoronkwo, said to be a groundnut seller, was on lured into a hotel…

CELEB guests from Oprah Winfrey to Idris Elba this morning arrived for the Royal Wedding - as Prince Harry was whisked out of his hotel with an entourage. Among the early arrivals were Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer, Prince Harry's…

The Christian Association of Nigeria has warned that there may be religious war in Nigeria should Leah Sharibu, the Dapchi Christian girl still being held by Boko Haram, die in captivity. The Special Assistant (Media and Communications)…

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai, on Friday, said the army panel set up to investigate the violence and killings in Taraba State found out that the Nigeria-Cameroon common borders in the state were porous. Buratai, at a…

Don Dee as he is fondly known in the Somolu area of Lagos, is quite an intelligent young man. A graduate from the Olabisi Onabanjo Univeristy, Ogun State, the 34-year-old, who refused to disclose his real name when our correspondent met…

The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has accused the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Oyegun, of collaborating with the National Organising Secretary of the party, Sen. Osita Izunaso, to cause problem…

The federal government on Wednesday approved the transfer of about $650 million (about N198.9 billion) to the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) as initial funding for the take -off of the Presidential Infrastructure…

The father-in-law of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Christopher Abebe, was on Friday buried in his hometown, Iruekpen, in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo.The late Mr Abebe, who died on March 22 at the age of 99, was the…

Liberty Television journalist, Aminu Nurudeen, who is suspected to have posted the viral video of the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, while he struggled to read a speech at a public event in Kano, has gone into hiding.…