Saturday, 21 December, 2024

Month: December 2023


Lilian Onoh, a former Nigerian High Commissioner to Namibia, has filed a libel suit at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against Geoffrey Onyeama and Gabriel Aduda. Mr Onyeama is Nigeria’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Read more…


The Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Hon. Lucky Ayedatiwa, has been sworn in as the governor of the state, saying he took the mantle of leadership with a heavy heart. Ayedatiwa was sworn in as the seventh governor of the Read more…


The Management Committee Chairman of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, yesterday, said 148 people were killed in the Christmas Eve attack in the council. This came as the death toll in the massacre in three local government areas Read more…


IN the words of the Ondo State Government, it was indeed a sad day in Ondo, yesterday, as Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, died exactly 190 days after he was first flown out of the state to Germany for medication. He Read more…


Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky needs to offer the country another plan for winning the war, because the current one isn’t working, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Wednesday.  Tymoshenko became Ukraine’s first female prime minister in 2005, after the Read more…


US forces have carried out airstrikes targeting Kataib Hezbollah militants in Iraq after blaming the group for a drone attack that injured three American soldiers in the country’s Kurdish region. The airstrikes were launched on Monday night against three facilities Read more…


The Special Investigator appointed to probe the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jim Obazee, has summoned the Chairman of Titan Trust Bank (TTB), Tunde Lemo, and two other shareholders of the bank to a “follow-up meeting” in Abuja on Thursday over Read more…


It started on Christmas eve and by yesterday, a series of attacks by gunmen on communities in two local government areas of Plateau State have left no fewer than 115 citizens dead, hundreds injured and 221 houses razed. Confirming the Read more…


A former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, has denied knowing a contractor, James Okwete, who was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly laundering N37bn. She also said she served as Read more…


More than 30 persons were burnt to death following an explosion from illegal pipeline tapping point in Omoku, Ogba/Egebema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State. Information has it that the incident occurred on Sunday morning. A pipeline belonging to one Read more…


President Bola Tinubu has condemned “the heinous and brutal attacks” in Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau, directing security agencies to immediately apprehend the culprits in the Christmas Day terrorist attacks that led to the death of over Read more…


POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS UNIT PRESS RELEASE The attention of the Police Service Commission has been drawn to a fictitious publication in the social media requesting prospective candidates for screening for recruitment into the Constable cadre of Read more…