Akwa Ibom Governor Faults Federal Govt Over Rehabilitation Of Highways*The governor said Akwa Ibom has been unfairly treated by the federal government.The Akwa Ibom State Government has criticised the federal government for asking it to pay property compensation for the construction of the Ikot ...

In what appears to be a repeat of what happened in Imo state where APC manufactured and allocated imaginary votes to itself, a similar scenario is playing out again as the ruling party after failing truncate the inauguration of elected chairmen in the FCT have resorted to using the Imo supreme ...

Why Dogo Gide, terror leader, married off our daughters – Father of abducted pupilMr Kaoje, a retired civil servant, said Mr Gide married off the remaining 11 girls because the government failed to give him the ransom he requested.Sani Kaoje, 66, is the father of Farida Kaoje, 16, one of the pupils ...

…18 Presidential Candidates, 4,223 NASS candidates to slug it outSenate President Ahmad Lawan may have finally lost out in his bid to return to the red chamber following the omission of his name from the final list of candidates for next year’s Presidential and National Assembly Elections.This was ...

The Nigerian Senate yesterday at the plenary, condemned the assassination attempt on its Prince, Sen. Dr Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah.Senator Uche Ekwunife Presented A Matter Of UrgentPublic Importance On The Attack On Senator Dr Ifeanyi Ubah And The Gruesome Murder Of His Aides .The Senator who came under ...

The immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Yakubu Dogara has warned Christians in the country not to waste their votes in the forth-coming 2023 general elections, saying that the adoption of the same faith Presidential and Vice-president Ticket by the ruling All ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has reached a new agreement with the federal government. The leadership of the House of Representatives on Tuesday brokered the new agreement after four hours of meeting at the National ...

By Tonye BarcanistaI read a Nairaland publication credited to one Mr Ajuri Ngelale, a Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Public Affairs under the office of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Muhammed, titled "Ajuri Ngelale Berates PDP For Attempting To Come Back In ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday released the final list of candidates eligible to contest the 2023 Presidential election....By Seun AdeuyiThe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday released the final list of candidates eligible to contest the ...

• Takes South South zonal headquarters to Akwa Ibom instead of Rivers Tension is mounting in the South South zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over alleged move to relocate the zonal secretariat from Port Harcourt, Rivers State.The South South PDP, in a statement by the zonal Organising ...

By George Okoh:The Benue State Government has set a target to recruit 10,000  persons into the State Community Volunteer Guards.Governor Samuel Ortom disclosed this yesterday  while speaking at the funeral of his foster father, Elder Joseph Vanger Iyorhon held at St. Athanasius Parish, Gbajimba, ...

Chairman, Lagos State Park and Garages Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo, has distanced himself from the controversial sale of stickers bearing image of himself; Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo:The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday said it has commenced investigation into the source of the outbreak Ebola in Uganda.A statement by WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti disclosed that a joint team comprising its officials and the Ugandan health ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo:Child labour has remained a major threat to development and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) in Nigeria in spite of legislative measures that had been taken by the government at various levels to curb it.Both the wife of the president, Mrs. Aisha Buhari and ...

By Chuks Okocha:Former President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, reminisced on his 2015 timeous concession telephone call to his then rival, Muhammadu Buhari, and said it was a “collective decision to save Nigeria”.Speaking at the Goodluck Jonathan 2022 Peace Conference themed, “Nation Building: The ...

By Kemi Olaitan:The Chairman, Disciplinary Committee of the Park Management System (PMS) in Oyo State, Alhaji  Mukaila Lamidi (aka Auxiliary), has called on the state police command and other security operatives, to be at alert in apprehending and penalizing members of the proscribed National Union ...

By Sunday Aborisade:The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said the red chamber will screen for confirmation, the appointment of the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, Wednesday.Ariwoola has been on acting capacity for nearly two months since his appointment ...

By Adedayo Akinwale:The National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hon. Israel Dayo,  has revealed  the youth wing of the party has commenced grassroots mobilisation and door-to-door campaign to deliver the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the 2023 ...

By Wole Ayodele:A Federal High Court in Jalingo, Taraba Sttate, has upheld the election of Agbu Kefas as the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the state. Delivering judgment in a case filed by one of the gubernatorial aspirants of the party, Jerome Nyameh, seeking ...

Since I heard Burnaboy declare in his “Breakfast” hit song, “Last last, na everybody go chop breakfast,” I have disagreed. Being an entertainment content doesn’t override the untruth in those words. Only two categories of people are mostly bound to “chop” breakfast, becoming veteran victims of ...

By Igbawase Ukumba:Nigerian youth groups, numbering about 300, under the aegies of Presidential Support Council (PSC) have rejected the appointment of Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, as the National Youths Co-ordinator of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council.The APC ...

This month, Ukrainian forces have recaptured swathes of territoryRecep Tayyip Erdogan addressing the UN | Official Twitter handleTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to end the war in Ukraine. He added that a significant step will ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu has said his client has been diagnosed with gastrointestinal disorder. In a statement on Monday, Ejiofor said the development ...

Details have emerged as to how notorious Zamfara bandit leader, Bello Turji, narrowly escaped being trapped in aerial bombings by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets on his enclave located at Fakai in Shinkafi LGA, Zamfara State.Reports from the area said there was heightened tension over the ...

Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, and his co-defendant, Victor Aduba, to 21 years imprisonment for kidnapping one Sylvanus Hafia.They were accused of conspiring and kidnapping Sylvanus ...

By Dennis NakuA man simply identified as James, has allegedly arrested a girl, 17, in Rumuokwuta Obio’Akpor, local government area of Rivers State, for refusing his sexual advances after giving her money severally.Trouble started when the man was said to have brought policemen from Kala Police ...

A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ogbeide Ifaluyi-Isibor, on Monday, declared support for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, over his PDP counterpart, Atiku Abubakar.“I’m a member of the PDP and glad to be a member of the PDP but I am one that is very ‘Obidient’,” ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, says the government is behind oil theft in the country.Obi, who is the guest speaker at the Private Sector Economic Forum of Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), asserted that no one can steal oil except the government.“Subsidy is ...

The authorities of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) have said that whereas the Corporation barely earns up to N1.7m per day, it uses about 24,000 litres of diesel daily for the Lagos- Ibadan route, amounting to about N4 million.NRC said that it spends 135.3 percent higher than what it earns ...

By ABN TV EDITORAbia State Police command on Monday paraded a dismissed official of the Department of State Services, DSS Prosper Israel, his younger brother Chinwendu Israel along with with eight others for robbing a billion van loaded with cash, ABN TV ...

U.S. court orders Governor Abiodun’s moneybag Bidemi Rufai to pay $604,260, forfeit assetsThe Ogun governor’s aide was apprehended in May 2021 by U.S. security officials at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport in an attempt to flee.ADEFEMOLA AKINTADEThe U.S. district court for the ...

Retired Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai, the former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is the party to beat in the 2023 general election, as it has all its takes to win.Buratai said this at the Progressives Young Leaders Summit of the APC in Abuja on Monday.He advised ...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will on Friday, launch Nigeria’s Integrated National Financing Framework for Sustainable Development on the margins of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the United States.This comes two years after Nigeria ...

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Monday night says the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, made no mistake by appointing him as National Youth Coordinator of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.This is even as he maintained that it would be unfair for ...

 Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, on Monday night said the unforgettable incident of EndSARS protest where several young Nigerians were shot at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos could have been averted if the demonstrators had channeled their anger into politics.Bello, who was appointed as National Youth ...

By Wale IgbintadeThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned John Abebe, a younger brother of the late former First Lady, Stella Obasanjo before the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja over allegations of fraud.Abebe was arraigned alongside a former Head of First ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Youth Leader, Dayo Israel, said Nigerian youths are supporting the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.The national committee member spoke on Monday in Abuja at the Progressives Young Leaders Summit.Israel said the APC was not worried about the ...

Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano and Udora Orizu in AbujaBishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Rev. Matthew Kukah, yesterday, said Nigeria did not need a messiah in 2023, but a true leader who would give the whole country, irrespective of tribe, tongue, or faith, a sense of belonging and proper ...

•Launch new database on public finance•States’ internally generated revenue grew by 35% in 2021 to N1.67trn•Insecurity: Northern govs back southern counterparts on state policeThe 36 state governors yesterday commenced a brainstorming session on how to improve their internally generated revenue ...

By Dike Onwuamaeze:The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday told leaders of Nigeria’s organised private sector that his administration would totally liberalise the entire power sector value chain, including transmission, to ensure steady power supply if elected ...

The Nigeria Customs Services has allegedly sold about 6,000 impounded vehicles and other items to selected firms and individuals, The PUNCH has learnt.The auction of the vehicles, it was gathered, was done without open competitive bidding, contrary to the Bureau of Public Procurement Act, 2007.The ...

By Laleye Dipo:Not less than 20 out of the 25 local government areas of Niger State have been affected by flooding caused by heavy rainfall which has resulted in the death of no fewer than 14 people.The situation is also compounded by the opening of the spillway gates of the three hydro electric ...

By Onyebuchi Ezigbo:The federal government has said that it will soon embark on the re-adustment of salaries and allowances of civil servants, so as to bring it in line with the economic realities in the country.Government’s position came just as the former Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has ...

By Alex Enumah: Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Monday dismissed the suit by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seeking the disqualification of the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and that of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, in the ...

By Michael Olugbode:AbujaOperatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have busted a major warehouse in a secluded estate in Ikorodu area of Lagos State where 1.8 tonnes (1,855 kilogrammes) of cocaine with a street value of $278,250,000 or N194,775,000,000 were seized.A statement ...

By Wale Igbintade:The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has restrained all parties in the suit pertaining to the Ikoyi Cancer Treatment Center from demolishing, destroying or tampering with the building located at No.16, Alexander Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, pending the determination of all the cases ...

By Deji Elumoye:The National Assembly has transmitted the Technology-enabled Start-up Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari for assent having passed through all required legislative processes.The Bill, according to a release issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly ...

Flags on public buildings in Germany are flying at half-mast on Monday as the state funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II takes place in London.Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said all federal authorities should follow suit.A ministry tweet was accompanied by the hashtag #RestInPeace and a picture ...

Huge crowds line streets as Britain says farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday at a state funeral attended by world leaders.BRITAIN'S KING CHARLES III, BRITAIN'S CAMILLA, QUEEN CONSORT, BRITAIN'S PRINCESS ANNE, PRINCESS ROYAL, VICE ADMIRAL TIMOTHY LAURENCE, BRITAIN'S PRINCE ANDREW, DUKE OF YORK, ...

• Division in Southwest chapters over Makinde’s position• Fayose to meet Rivers’ governorPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors are mounting pressure o their Rivers State colleague, Nyesom Wike, to halt his agitation for the resignation of the national chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, it was ...