Northern Group Hails Naja’atu, Urges Support For Atiku
A group, Northern Democratic Movement for Good Governance (NDMG), has called on patriotic Nigerians irrespective of tribe and religion to rally round the candidature of… A group, Northern Democratic…
Product Availability Won’t End Scarcity – IPMAN
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has stated that the present hike and scarcity of the petroleum products in Nigeria cannot end by… The Independent Petroleum Marketers…
Old Notes: NANS Kicks Against Jan 31 Deadline, Says It’s Bad Timing For Students
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the deadline for old naira notes to cease being legal tender. NANS in a statement signed by its National…
Sanwo-Olu to boycott guber debate, says he can’t share stage with PDP ‘agents of violence’
Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, says he would no longer…
Deadline for old naira notes remains Jan 31, says CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has insisted that the deadline for the old naira notes to…
Justice Kume shouldn’t have gone so ‘low, low, low’ in Osun judgement – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun has faulted the use of the popular ‘Buga’ lyric by the Tertsea Kume-led Election Petition Tribunal which ousted Ademola Adeleke as the elected governor of the state in its…
Emilokan All About Selfish Interest, Tinubu Wasting His Time – Ebenezer Babatope
A former Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope on Saturday said Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is just wasting his time by saying it is…
Chuddy K Loses Wife To Cancer
Nigerian artist, Chukwudi Ken Agali, popularly known as Chuddy K, has lost his wife, Racheal to cancer. The singer disclosed this on Saturday via his official Instagram page while mourning his wife,…
Adeleke Hails Overwhelming Rejection Of Tribunal Judgement By Osun Residents
Sen. Ademola Adeleke, Osun State Governor has hailed the overwhelming rejection of the Election Petition Tribunal judgement by the good people of the state. In a statement signed by the Governor on…
I have no friction with President Buhari – Tinubu tells APC supporters in Zamfara
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),…
BREAKING: INEC Extends PVC Collection Deadline
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to February 5, 2023. INEC had pegged January 31 as the deadline for the…
Jandor’s campaign: PDP, APC trade blames over Surulere attacks
The PDP and APC in Lagos State have disagreed over the alleged attacks on the campaign train of the PDP Governorship Candidate, Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran (Jandor), in the Surulere Local Government Area of the state.…
MURIC tasks FG on deadline for old naira notes
The Muslim Rights Concern ( MURIC) has appealed to the Federal Government to extend the Jan. 31 deadline for expiration of old naira…
Ugandan court orders woman to pay ex-fiance over breach of marriage promise
An Ugandan court had ordered a woman to pay back a total of 9.4 million shillings ($2,550; £2,060) to her ex-fiancé for failing to marry him after four years of marital relationship. Magistrate Asanasio Mukobi…
Sabalenka joins league of Australian Open queens
Aryna Sabalenka fought her way to a maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in Melbour with a 4-6 6-3 6-4 win over Kazakh 22nd seed Elena Rybakina on Saturday. It was a thrilling final between two of…
Usain Bolt sacks business manager after $12.7m vanished
Jamaican retired sprinter Usain Bolt has sacked his business manager after the loss of $12.7 million to a local private investment firm in Kingston. Bolt told newsmen that he was baffled how the money was…
Rivers’ man ‘Biggie’ to die for using human intestines for pepper soup
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced one Bestman Lekia, popularly known as ‘Biggie’ to death by hanging for killing one Loveday Mmeabe and using the remains for preparing pepper soup…
Currency redesign: Atiku pleads with CBN, FG to reconsider January 31 deadline
Atiku Abubakar has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend the deadline for the phase-out of obsolete naira notes. With only three days left for the discontinuation of the use of old notes, the presidential candidate of the…
BREAKING: CBN working to prevent chaos over distribution of new naira notes, says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says efforts are ongoing to ensure improved distribution of the new naira notes. In a statement on Saturday by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, the president said the decision…
LeBron James Jersey Sells For Whopping $3.7m
A game-worn jersey of basketball superstar LeBron James sold for $3.7 million at auction Friday, five times more than the previous record for one of his shirts. The sale comes with interest even higher…
‘Fake news’ — Nwankwo Kanu denies endorsing Tinubu
Nwankwo Kanu, former Super Eagles forward, says he did not endorse any candidate contesting for president. In a video posted on his Twitter page on Friday, Kanu urged Nigerians to regard claims of his…
THE AFTERMATH: Will Oyetola immediately take over from Adeleke after tribunal verdict?
The Osun governorship election petition tribunal on Friday sacked Ademola Adeleke as governor of the state. Mixed reactions have since trailed news of the judgement with discussions of the matter making…
Osun Tribunal: My victory shows INEC needs to improve its processes, says Oyetola
Gboyega Oyetola, the immediate past governor of Osun, says the verdict of the election petition tribunal which validated his victory in the July 16, 2022 governorship election, shows that there are…
Buhari a nice man overwhelmed by first grade criminals – Ortom
• Why are we surrounded by terrorists from Niger, Chad, Mauritania, Senegal, Libya? • Says ‘I spent 680m treating snake bites, creating jobs before I became governor’ •Why he has not met Buhari in 4…