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Two major speakership aspirants, Aliyu Betara and Yusuf Gagdi have both stepped down for the preferred candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tajudeen Abbas for the position of speaker of the House of…

Fuel station owners and pump attendants in Kano are lamenting low patronage as patrons have reduced volume of purchases following pump price increases. Pump price of petrol was increased from N195 per litre to between N540…

A man, Okhiria, has been arrested by the police in Edo State for shooting his wife with a gun during an argument in Ekae community, new Etete axis, GRA, Benin City, Edo State. The suspect was said to have had an…

AS Nigerians celebrate the 30th anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential poll, President Bola Tinubu has said that Nigerians must never take democracy for granted noting that the winner of the June 12, 1993 annulled…

Two speakership aspirants — Aliyu Betara and Yusuf Gagdi — have stepped down for Tajudeen Abbas, the preferred candidate of the All Progressives Congress…

Former Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, has accused the lawmaker who branded launch of Nigeria Air as fraud of demanding five percent shares of the National Carrier Air from him. During a hearing by the House of…

Ibrahim Babangida, a former military head of state, says political leaders have not utilised the gains of democracy. The retired general spoke on Sunday ahead of Democracy Day — which is marked annually on June 12.…

Amid skyrocketing energy costs in Nigeria following the removal of fuel subsidies, many Nigerians are adjusting to new economical lifestyles, a survey by Nairametrics has shown. Sequel to the pronouncement on May 29…

Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank PLC, Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, has been listed amongst the recipients of the 2023 national awards. According to the 2023 national awards list released by the Federal Government last…

Prof. Jerry Gana, former Minister of Information and National Orientation, believes INEC was unfair to Nigerians during the 2023 general elections. Gana gave his opinion on the election when he spoke with the…

Kano state government has resumed demolition of structures built on public places that were allegedly sold out by the immediate past administration of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. This is coming barely a few days after…

Rauf Aregbesola, immediate past minister of interior, has assured his supporters in the Osun chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of his readiness to cater for their welfare. Aregbesola spoke in…

Nigerian secret police, the Department of State Services, will be interrogating other top directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in its ongoing probe of its suspended governor, Godwin Emefiele. According…

A civil society group, Society for Good Governance and Transparency, SoGGT, has slammed purveyors of fake news and their paymasters on the purported suspension of the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria National…

Witnesses said shelling and gunfire resumed Sunday in Sudan’s capital, ending a 24-hour ceasefire that had provided inhabitants with a rare reprieve from over two months of war. Deadly warfare has raged in the…

A mobile court has sentenced a woman, Rukayat Oderinde to 144 hours of community service for emptying her wastes into a drainage channel at No. 17 Hassan Ogumola Street, Ahmadiyya, a suburb of Lagos. The court is…

Ghana has regained its position as Africa’s top gold producer and the 10th biggest producer globally with a 32 percent jump recorded in gold production in 2022, the Ghana Chamber of Mines said Friday. During its…

Chef Damilola Adeparusi, a.k.a Chef Dami on Sunday continued her quest to break Guinness World Record for the longest cooking marathon. Adeparusi, who is a student of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has…

Following the suspension and subsequent arrest of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, A lawyer, Chief Goddy Uwazurike, has described the act as unconstitutional. Uwazurike said…

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, says it will not interfere in the suspension of Godwin…

In efforts to complete its investigations, the Department of State Services (DSS), is likely to approach the court to obtain an order to keep Godwin Emefiele in its custody for as long as his interrogation…

Buildings shook across the province of Gauteng, where Johannesburg, the country’s largest city and…

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has debunked rumours that the Bola Tinubu Health and Diagnostic Centre…

At the Valedictory session of the ninth Senate, Chairman, Senate Committee on…