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The Ekiti state chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has asked Kayode Fayemi, the governor, to run for the office of the president in the 2023 election. This comes days after supporters of Bola Tinubu, national…

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 10-year-old girl for allegedly committing murder at Owode Community in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State.  The suspect, whose parents hail from Sokoto State,…

Nicholas Ogunji, a 17-year-old student, who emerged the one-day governor of Abia state, has freed some inmates of Afaraukwu correctional centre. Okezie Ikpeazu, the state governor, who broke the news in a Twitter thread…

All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, said the release of over 300 schoolboys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, vindicated the President, Major General…

9mobile has launched a portal to enable its subscribers link their subscriber identity module (SIM) cards with their national identification number (NIN). In a statement on Saturday, 9mobile said its online self-service NIN…

Ishaq Usman Bello, chief judge of the federal capital territory (FCT) high court, was not elected as a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC). This was disclosed in the results of the election which was concluded…

What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in The Feast of the Goat that “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I…

A Coalition of Civil Society (CSOs) under the umbrella of Coalition for Justice, has dragged Nigerian frontline human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, for allegedly instigating the…

The Ogbobula Isaac-led Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has suspended Senator Magnus Abe, Igo Aguma, Livinstone Wechie and Worgu Boms. Isaac,…

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called on the Federal government to unlabeled the Indigenous people of Biafra IPOB as a terrorist group Ohanaeze frowned that those killing…

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, on Friday expressed confidence that Nigeria would soon start manufacturing its own vaccines,…

Mr. Olukayode Popoola, in the Federal Controller of Works Lagos, has lamented the disruptive activities of ‘Area Boys’ who sometimes open the closed section of the Third Mainland Bridge…

Nigerian Islamic human rights organization, Muslim Rights Concern, has given kudos to President Muhammadu Buhari for the successful rescue of the Kankara…

The incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden warned Friday of risks to national security after it said the Pentagon suddenly halted briefings for the transition team. Yohannes Abraham, executive director for the…

As trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, has said the WTO needs “someone with real experience in trade, not someone from the World Bank or a development person.” Lighthizer spoke in an interview with BBC on…

Star musician, Tiwatope Savage, aka Tiwa Savage, is in the news again, this time for spending a whooping ₦743,000 on a luxury backpack for her son, Jamil ‘Jam jam’…

The Lagos State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party on Friday, suspended Mr Adedeji Doherty as its chairman. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the suspension followed a vote of no confidence passed on Doherty over…

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council has said it would seek the suspension of demurrage on behalf of shippers. In a statement signed by Rekiya Zubair, Head Public Relations of NSC, the state of the roads informed the…

The  Consul General of Nigeria to South Africa, Abdulmalik Ahmed, has said that Nigeria’s yearly exports to South Africa now exceed $3.8bn. Speaking at a press conference which took place on Friday in…

You must have seen the video by Dino Melaye, former senator, in which he claimed that some people died after taking a COVID-19 vaccine. This claim is not…

A 10-year-old girl, Suliya Abubakar, said she threw her stepbrother, Usman Abubakar, aged 20 months, inside a well because her stepmother maltreats her. Abubakar said this while she was being paraded…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has commended the Nigerian government over the rescue of the abducted 344 students of Government Science School Kankara in Kastina…

The Peoples Democratic Party says the revelations trailing the “abduction and release of 600 students by bandits have further exposed the All Progressives Congress as a party in league with…

The daily count of deaths resulting from COVID-19 complications increased to its highest in the past three months, with 11 new fatalities confirmed across Nigeria on Friday. According…