Friday, 27 September, 2024

Month: June 2024


The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State has categorically dismissed the alleged news of 1,300 members decamping to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as baseless propaganda. This narrative, according to the PDP, is a deliberate attempt to mislead Read more…


A Russian Su-34 supersonic bomber has crashed in the country’s mountainous North Ossetia-Alania region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday morning. Both pilots have been killed. The jet was flying a routine training mission. Preliminary assessment suggests that the aircraft Read more…


Some members of the House of Representatives have proposed a bill to alter the 1999 Constitution (as amended)  to provide for a single tenure of six years for the president and governors. The lawmakers are also proposing a bill for the rotation Read more…


A former governor of Jigawa State has rubbished the acclaimed label on President Bola Tinubu as the builder of modern Lagos State, faulting his government at the federal level for its inability to get things right. Tinubu served as the Read more…


Organised Labour has insisted on its N250,000 new minimum wage proposal, stating it would not negotiate what it described as ‘starvation wage.’ The Assistant General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress,  Chris Onyeka, said labour would not accept the latest Read more…


President Bola Tinubu has removed former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, as the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC). In his place, he has approved the appointment of Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Hashimu Argungu (Rtd). A Read more…


A  Kano High Court sitting at Audu Bako Secretariat has granted order restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting, detaining, harassing, intimidating or inviting the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the 2023 general elections, Read more…


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has through the Court of Appeal, Abuja, recovered 20 properties, 10 vehicles and three princely wristwatches from two brothers, Olisaebuka Eze and Onyeka Nnadozie Eze, for a petitioner, Arthur Eze. EFCC spokesperson, Dele Read more…


Berlin will not support France’s proposal to send Western instructors to Ukraine to train its army, German news outlet Welt am Sonntag reported on Sunday, citing sources. Earlier reports said that French President Emmanuel Macron had been trying to form Read more…


Hanks Anuku, a renowned Nollywood actor, has shared how a viral video that falsely portrayed him as mentally unstable, ruined his career and caused him personal pain. A video went viral in 2022 showing the actor dressed in tattered clothes, Read more…


Godswill Akpabio, Nigeria’s Senate President has said Aliko Dangote, the chairman of the Dangote Group shamed successive governments by completing 650,000 barrels per day refinery. Akpabio said this when he led the leadership of the 10th Senate on a tour Read more…


Two intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia from Kwara State, Salihu Mohammed and Hawawu Mohammed, have died in Madina, Saudi Arabia. The executive secretary of Kwara State Muslim Pilgrims’ Board, AbdulSalam AbdulKabir, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. He said Read more…