Saturday, 19 April, 2025

Month: January 2025


President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointments of board Chairpersons and Chief Executive Officers for 42 federal organisations and a secretary to the board of the Civil Defence, Immigration, and Prisons Services. This is contained in a State House release Read more…


President Bola Tinubu has hailed the intervention of the Finnish government with the arrest and detention of Simon Ekpa, saying the government will not tolerate actions and statements that could lead to divisiveness among citizens. The President spoke at the Read more…


The Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa has stated that notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji disclosed that he is ready to surrender. Musa made the disclosure on Friday after Turji’s second-in-command and other lieutenants were neutralised by the military. Read more…


President Donald Trump had tough words for both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview that aired Thursday, threatening to ratchet up financial pressure on Russia while calling Zelenskyy “no angel.” Trump promised on the Read more…


A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order. The 14th Read more…


The Court of Appeal, Akure division, Ondo State, has upheld the death sentence of Rahmon Adedoyin for his involvement in the killing of Timothy Adegoke, a former Master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Osun State. According to the court, Adedoyin Read more…


Courts in Mgbidi, Oguta and Omumma areas of Imo State, on Thursday shut down operations following the killing of a popular lawyer in the State, Chinedu Nwowu. The lawyer, as gathered by our correspondent was said to have been double Read more…


The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has described the death of one of his predecessors, Lt. General Jeremiah Timbut Useni, as the “fall of one of the biggest trees in the forest of the land of Plateau,” saying Read more…


The All Progressives Congress (APC) has released the schedule for its off-cycle Anambra State governorship election, fixing March 29 for primary. The resolution was taken after a marathon meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC). According to the approved schedule of Read more…


“I want to say essentially that the squabbles within the party ought to be a family affair, and that is how I see it. For me, there are no hard feelings. “As I said before, all those who may have Read more…


World Trade Organisation director-general, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday, urged countries to keep calm over tariffs, warning that a tit-for-tat trade war would be “catastrophic” for the world economy. Okonjo-Iweala issued her appeal during a panel discussion on tariffs at the Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor In a bid to assist poor widows and less privileged to cushion the harsh effect of hardship in Nigeria, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) known as Ebele Ugochukwu (EU) Foundation based at Nkwelle Ezunaka in Oyi Local Read more…