Defence HQ Calls For Calm Amid Viral Video Of UN Military Trucks In Edo
THE Defence Headquarters has called for calm over viral social media video clips of the presence of some United Nations Peacekeeping fighting vehicles and...
Bandits Abduct Ten Secondary School Students In Kaduna
NO fewer than ten students have been kidnapped by bandits in the Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna state.
The State Commissioner for Internal Security...
Gunmen Kidnap Village Head’s Wife, Son In Kano
GUNMEN have kidnapped two members of the family of the village head of Nasarawa in Tsanyawa Local Government of Kano State.
Those kidnapped are his...
Senate Queries State House, Immigration, BPE, NPC, 554 Other MDAs Over N969 Billion Budgetary...
THE Senate Public Accounts Committee Monday queried about 558 ministries, departments and agencies for failing to account for N969bn “intangible assets” in the 2019...
Nigerian Navy Redeploys, Appoints Senior Officers
THE Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Adm. Awwal Gambo, has approved appointments of senior officers comprising Rear Admirals and Commodores as part of the...
Tension In Jos As Police Accidental Discharge Kills Teenager
THERE is disquiet in Jos Area of Plateau State as one person has died after being shot by a police stray bullet.The incident took...
Two To Die By Hanging For Homicide In Kano
THE Kano State High Court 2 presided over by Justice Yusuf Ubale has sentenced two men, Samaila Salisu and Aminu Salisu, to death by...
APC Denies Expelling Deputy Senate President, Omo-Agege
THE All Progressives Congress, APC on Monday denied the expulsion of the Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege from the party.
News Point Nigeria had reported...
Court Orders Forfeiture Of N725m, Property Linked To Ex-NIMASA DG Akpobolokemi
THE Federal High Court Lagos has granted an order of interim forfeiture of the sum of N725 million and property located in the Banana...
JUST IN: Former Air Force Spokesman Slumps, Dies In Abuja
THE immediate past spokesman of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Wap Maigida, is dead.
Maigida was reported to have slumped and died in the...
JUST IN: Orji Kalu’s Wife, Ifeoma Is Dead
THE former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu, has announced the passing on to eternal glory of his first wife, Mrs Ifeoma Kalu,...
JUST IN: Boko Haram Attacks Adamawa Town, Kills Three, Injures Dozens, Sets Houses Ablaze
GUNMEN suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists have attacked Dabna community in Hong Local Government Area of Adamawa State, killing three, injuring dozens and...
Multiple Gunshots As APC, PDP Members Clash Over Inspection Of Electoral Materials In Rivers
GUNSHOTS were heard on Monday when members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State clashed in...
Kaduna Imposes 24-Hour Curfew In Chikun LGA Over Killings
THE Kaduna State Government has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Sabon Garin Nassarawa communities in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state following...
Nollywood Actress, Mercy Aigbe, Converts To Islam, Changes Name To Meenah
POPULAR Nollywood Actress, Mercy Aigbe, has converted to Islam.
The actress and her husband, Kazeem Adeoti had hosted friends, colleagues, and family to a Ramadan...
Tinubu To Decide Subsidy Removal Date After Inauguration
THE All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has said the incoming administration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu will decide the date the fuel subsidy will...
Gunmen Kill Many, Burn Houses In Kogi Community, Yahaya Bello Reacts
AN UNCOUNTABLE number of people have been reportedly killed and hundreds of houses burnt when gunmen in the early hours of Sunday attacked Aloko,...
Gunmen Storm Benue Church, Kill One, Abduct Pastor, Injure Traditional Ruler, Others
UNKNOWN gunmen in the early hours of Sunday reportedly invaded the Christians Pentecostal Church located at Akenawe, Tswarev in Ukemberagya/Tswarev Council Ward of Logo...
Ganduje To Inaugurate 17-Member Transition Committee
THE Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje-led Executive Council in Kano State has approved the formation of a 17-member Transition Committee to hand over to the...
Emir Of Kano Reshuffles Cabinet, Turbans Ahmad Bayero As Barde Kerarriya
EMIR of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, has turbaned his cousin, Alhaji Ahmad Kabiru Bayero, as the new Barde Kerarriya of the Kano emirate.The...
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Tinubu Returns To Abuja After Christmas Break, Ghana Trip
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after nearly three weeks in Lagos.The Airbus A330 conveying the president and his personal aides arrived at...
NFF Appoints Eric Chelle As Substantive Super Eagles Coach
THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed the appointment of Éric Sékou Chelle as substantive Head Coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles.This was reached at...
Cabals In Tinubu’s Govt More Dangerous Than Buhari’s, Ex-Minister Says
FORMER Youth and Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, says the cabals around President Bola Tinubu are more dangerous than the clique around former President Muhammadu...
El-Rufai, Al-Mustapha, Atiku’s Allies Hold Closed-Door Meeting With SDP
SEVERAL prominent opposition figures held a closed-door meeting with officials of the Social Democratic Party in Abuja on Tuesday.The agenda of the meeting has...
Alhanislam Named Among ‘100 Most Reputable Africans’ 2025
POETVOCATE and Pan africanist, Maryam Bukar Hassan, has been listed among the 100 Most Reputable Africans for 2025. She is recognised for her impactful...
Suspended Edo LG Chairmen Remitted N12bn To PDP Leaders, Governor Okpebholo Says
EDO state governor, Monday Okpebholo, revealed on Tuesday that the 18 local government chairmen were suspended for failing to address findings that approximately N12...
More Troubles For El-Rufa’i’s Ex-Chief Of Staff As ICPC Files Fresh Money Laundering Charges
THE Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged former Chief of Staff, to former Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i of Kaduna State,...
Court Bars Ex-IGP, Mike Okiro From Contesting As Ohanaeze President
A STATE High Court sitting in Enugu has issued an interim injunction restraining apex Igbo socio-political group Ohanaeze Ndigbo from entertaining the candidacy of...
You Can Count On Nigeria’s Support, Tinubu Tells Ghana’s New President
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has congratulated John Mahama on his swearing-in as Ghana’s president and said Nigeria will support the West African country.Mahama was inaugurated...
Federal Govt To Flag Off Ikom-Etomi-Agbokim Waterfalls Road Wednesday
THE Federal Government of Nigeria will officially flag off the construction of the Ikom-Etomi-Agbokim Waterfalls Road on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, in a highly...
From Classroom to National Politics: Meet Ghana’s First Female Vice President
GHANA was in a frenzy mood when President John Mahama was sworn in in Accra, the capital of the country, on Tuesday.At the centre...
Abuja Explosion: ‘How Student Brought Bomb To School’, Eyewitness Narrates
AN eyewitness account of the explosion that rocked the Islamiyyah school in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Monday, has said the bomb was...
KPMG Banking Survey: UBA Emerges Top Five In Customer Experience, Excels In SME, Retail...
AFRICA’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has cemented its position as a leading customer-centric institution, emerging among the Top 5 banks,...
Three Persons Crushed To Death As Container Falls On Tricycle In Oyo
THREE persons repeatedly died in Ogbomoso on Tuesday when a container-laden truck lost control and fell on a commercial tricycle at Takie Junction around...
Katsina Governor, Dikko Radda Reshuffles Cabinet
GOVERNOR Dikko Radda of Katsina State on Monday reshuffled the State Executive Council to ensure optimum performance of the administration’s ‘Building Your Future’ agenda.This...
Kano Local Govt Chairman Appoints 60 Aides
THE Chairman of Nasarawa Local Government Area in Kano State, Yusuf Imam, popularly known as ‘Ogan Boye’, has approved the appointment of 60 aides...
In Context King Morocco’s Impetus On Moroccan Sahara, Ghana Suspends Diplomatic Ties With So-Called...
THE Republic of Ghana has decided to suspend diplomatic relations with the so-called “sadr”.
This decision was communicated in an official document from the Ministry...
China New Virus: NCDC Reactivates COVID-19 Emergency Protocols
THE Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) declared yesterday that Nigeria is not at risk yet of the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) infection.In China, thousands...
How Jigawa Killer Bride, Ex-Lover Connived To Poison Groom, Wedding Guests
TWO weeks after a wedding ceremony in Jigawa State turned tragic, leaving one guest dead and the groom critically ill, events took a new...
Bauchi Governor, Bala Mohammed Fires Five Commissioners
BAUCHI State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has reshuffled his cabinet and sacked five commissioners.According to a press release issued to journalists on Tuesday by the...
