Groom d#es less than 6 hours to his wedding today in ZamfaraA young man identified as Mudassir Lawal Galadima, passed away on Friday morning, September 9, 2022, a few hours to his wedding in Zamfara state.The wedding fatiha of Mudassir and his bride, Fatima Bello Maccido Maradun, was slated to be ...

It was learnt that the deceased (unknown identity) was reportedly seen by neighbours four years ago during one of his occasional trip to Ibadan from Port Harcourt in Rivers State where he resides at the time.As at the time of filing this report, the cause of death is yet to be ascertained.Residents ...

The Federal Operations Unit Zone "A" of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted twenty (20) drums of carbide without an end-user certificate and forty-one (41) pieces of Military camouflage bags in different locations of the South West Zone.The Acting Comptroller in charge of the Unit, Deputy ...

Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike has alleged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar are arrogant because someone in the presidency is backing them.Wike said the National Chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, had refused to honour his promise to resign and yield ...

The Department of State Security Service has confirmed the raid on the Kaduna residence and office of the terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu.Mamu is the negotiator between the government and terrorists who attacked the Kaduna-Abuja train on March 28, 2022 and kidnapped many people as hostages.The ...

Hushpuppi says he’s among best bathroom cleaners in prison, begs judge to temper justice with mercyRamon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas has appealed to the United States Judge Otis Wright to temper justice with mercy and hand him a lighter jail term ahead of his sentencing later this month, saying he had become ...

Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, has resigned as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum chairman.He resigned his position on Wednesday, during the National Executive Council meeting of the party.Minutes after his resignation, the Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, emerged the new ...

Former Secretary General of Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has played host to a delegation of youth leaders led by co-convener of Nigeria Youth Decide, Dr utchay Odims in Lagos.Amb.Odims during their conversation informed the elder statesman that this project has become very important in the ...

The Kwara State Police Command has paraded a middle aged-man, Mr. Ibrahim Hassan, for allegedly murdering his father, Mr. Sabi Ibrahim, a 90-year old retired army corporal, in Ilorin to take possession of his father’s bank ATM card.The Kwara State Police Commissioner, Mr. Tuesday Assayomo, told ...

Union Jack flag flies at half-mastIt's been confirmed that the King will be known as Charles III.Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II after her incredible 70-year reign, her son Charles Philip Arthur George will be crowned King Charles III.William and Kate's Twitter account @KensingtonRoyal ...

 Pictures from President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Lagos today, where he formally commissioned a new Nigerian Naval Sports Complex and officially declared open the 12th Nigerian Navy Games. #PMBInLagos

Customs intercepts 7,000 donkey p€ni§es in LagosThe Nigeria Customs Service Murtala Mohammed Airport Cargo Command has intercepted seven thousand pieces of Donkey male genit@ls meant for exportation to Hong Kong.This was revealed by the Customs Area Controller Sambo Dangaladima while showcasing ...

Queen Elizabeth II passes on, aged 96Queen Elizabeth II has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace announceshttps://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1567928564342743040?t=xFvY9b0A0yKiUbN97tfSng&s=19The Queen has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace has announced."The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this ...

Anthony Obekpa, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Benue, says the party is losing members to Labour Party (LP) in Ogbadibo LGA of the state.In a statement, Obekpa said Austin Agada, Benue APC chairman, is not bothered about the situation in his LGA despite efforts to meet him to find ...

Osun State Police Command yesterday arrested a self-acclaimed medical doctor, Abbas Adio, for allegedly killing a taxi driver, Emmanuel Oyiobo, by injecting him with substance.The state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Yemisi Opolola, while parading the ‘fake medical doctor’ alongside ...

The lead counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, on Wednesday said that the case between the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and the Federal government has been brought forward to 13th September 2022 from the earlier date of 11th October 2022 at the Court of Appeal in ...

PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI RECEIVES BRIEFING FROM ECOWAS SPECIAL ENVOY AND FORMER PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN. SEPT 7TH 2022

By  Dennis Naku  Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said that the time of reckoning is coming for those who continue to insist that they can take the national leadership in the Peoples Democratic Party.The governor maintained that nobody can silence him from speaking against such injustice and ...

By  Punch Editorial Board  AHEAD of the 2023 polls, public attention is riveted on politics. But the electorate’s dream of a better Nigeria appears bleak with the recent embarrassing penchant of state governors and leading politicians to embark on jamborees to London for political meetings. ...

By  Stephen Angbulu  The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) said on Wednesday that Nigeria was committed to promoting peace and harmony among ECOWAS countries by ensuring the release of the remaining 46 Ivorian soldiers held in Mali.According to a statement signed by his Special ...

Tunde Ajaja, Okechukwu Nnodim and Anozie Egole The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria on Wednesday  threatened showdown with the Federal Government over the massive  oil thefts  in the Niger Delta.The President, PENGASSAN, Festus Osifo, in an interview with journalists in ...

By Wale Odunsi  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Olajide Adediran has berated Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu over the incessant building collapse.On Wednesday, the opposition flagbearer, popularly known as Jandor, asked the governor to resign from office.Adeniran said ...

By Abdul Babajide The Federal Government has been urged by the Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, to allow Amotekun and other State security outfits to bear sophisticated weapons for the protection of the populace.Akeredolu, who explained his stance on the Oil Pipeline Surveillance ...

By Ochogwu Sunday  Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The Department of State Services (DSS) has confirmed that Malam Tukur Mamu, former negotiator for victims kidnapped from a Kaduna-bound train in March, is in custody. Mamu was arrested at Mallam Aminu Kano ...

The federal government has reacted formally to the issue of foreign airlines selling tickets to Nigerian passengers in dollars, saying such practice was in violation of the nation’s extant laws.The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday, after the weekly ...

An Indian mother fought off a tiger with her bare hands to save her toddler from its jaws, an official said Wednesday.Archana Choudhary stepped out of her house in the central state of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday night as the 15-month-old boy wanted to relieve himself.A tiger believed to have strayed ...

by Sunday IsuwaIn order to avoid manipulation of their results at the polling units, the Labour Party (LP) has declared that doctors, nurses and other medical professionals will serve as their agents in the 2023 presidential election.National chairman of the Labour Party, Barr Julius Abure, said ...

About 17 governorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party met with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, behind closed doors on Tuesday.The candidates were said to have arrived Port Harcourt at about 8pm and immediately went into the meeting with their host.A source from Government House, ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday said the estimated three million Internally Displaced Persons would participate in the 2023 general elections.The commission added that it will display voter register across the country once it completes the ongoing Automated Biometric ...

Loyalists of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), are making subtle moves to kick out the national chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, before the campaign for the 2023 general election commences, Daily Independent has gathered.The ...

By Seun OpejobiA former Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi, has cautioned Nigerians against voting for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2023.Abdullahi said only Nigerians who love suffering would vote for APC to remain in power in 2023.Addressing journalists in Ilorin, Kwara State on ...

By Ochogwu Sunday  Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:1. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency seized no fewer than 286 assets and 600 bank accounts of drug barons between January 2021 and August 2022. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a document ...

 Operatives of the Western Nigeria Security Network Agency, Osun Amotekun have apprehended three suspects for alleged goat theft.Among the suspects paraded on Tuesday, at the Amotekun Osogbo Command is Segun Oladipupo, a 40-year-old mechanic, Wale Samuel and Sulaiman Garbuga.Parading the suspects ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency seized no fewer than 286 assets and 600 bank accounts of drug barons between January 2021 and August 2022.NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a document made available to one of our correspondents on Tuesday, said the assets consisted of ...

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has said unless drastic measures were deployed by governments to stem the tide of brain drain, the already bad national health indices may eventually spiral out of control thereby leaving Nigeria at the bottom rung among the comity of nations.The association ...

The families of four newborn babies have been thrown into mourning after they died due to alleged negligence on the part of the doctor on duty at the Sapele Central Hospital, in the Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State.The victims’ families, while lamenting over their deaths, alleged that ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday sentenced a 26-year-old lawyer, Sulaimon Kaosarat Yetunde, to five years imprisonment for drug trafficking.Justice Daniel Osiagor handed down the verdict following Miss Yetunde’s “guilty” plea to a charge of conspiracy and the unlawful export of 1.10 ...

Residents of Aja, Lekki, Badore and other areas in Lagos state will be cut off from the national power supply system for about 12 hours daily, extending for a three-day period, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said yesterday.The wholly government-owned entity, in a statement by the General ...

On the CNN InterviewThe Nigerian public and Nigeria-watchers should please note that the much talked-about CNN Interview with Mr. Peter Obi is not holding today. If and when such a forum will hold, Nigerians and all men & women of goodwill will be appropriately informed.Thank you.Valentine ...

Kemi Badenoch MP @KemiBadenoch has been appointed Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade @TradeGovUK.Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch (née Adegoke, 2 January 1980) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden since 2017. ...

 The Spokesperson for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, has presented ‘receipts’ to prove that Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, dragged then Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, to court over alleged certificate forgery.Bwala, who spoke on Channels ...

 The All Progressives Congress, APC, has warned the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, against dragging its name into the crisis rocking the opposition party.Mr Ayu had accused the ruling party of planting negative stories on social media in order to fuel the ...

By  Segun Adewole  The Redeemed Christian Church of God has faulted social media comments questioning its ordination of Senator Remi Tinubu as a pastor.Mixed reactions have trailed a video showing the Senator representing Lagos Central at the National Assembly talking about the Igbo and their ...

By Clement Chinedu Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has challenged anyone to show him one federal government project in Rivers State since 1999He hinted that the state did not benefit anything from the federal government even when the Peoples Democratic Party held sway in the country from ...

FG dissolves NSCDC anti-vandal unit, road blocksThe Federal Government has ordered the immediate dissolution of the anti-vandal unit of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) across the country.According to the government, the dissolution was due to the uninspiring performance of the ...

by Yusuf BabalolaThe Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, said it intercepted 20 drums of Calcium Carbide smuggled into the country from neighbouring countries.Speaking to journalists, the acting Customs Area Controller, FOU, Zone A, ...

An Ekiti State Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Ado Ekiti, has granted an order to remand one Danjimoh Blessing, 31, at the Nigeria Correctional Centre, Ado Ekiti, for conspiracy, armed robbery and attempt to murder.According to the charge, Danjimoh Blessing and others now at large were ...

The Adamawa State chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ibrahim Bilal, has resigned from the party and joined the Peoples Democratic Party, after he was accused of financial misconduct and gross violation of the constitution, SaharaReporters has learnt.Adamawa is the home state of Aisha, ...

 Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted 32 persons in Ondo State.The 32 victims were reportedly returning from a burial service in Benin City, Edo State over the weekend when the incident happened.It was learned that the victims were waylaid by the gunmen while travelling in a Coaster ...

The Ondo State Government disclosed that kidnappers who abducted burial guests are demanding N90m ransom to secure the release of the victims.The state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mrs Bamide Ademola-Olateju, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen on Monday, September 5, said ...