Friday, 18 September, 2026

Month: August 2026


The group said the alleged activities were aimed at creating division among party members at a time when attention should be focused on strengthening the party and preparing for the 2027 elections. The movement specifically accused unnamed individuals of impersonating Read more…


Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abdussamad Dasuki, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reconsider its staggered arrangement for the 2027 general elections and conduct the federal and state polls on a single day. Read more…


The Osun State Commissioner for Environment and Sanitation, Mayowa Adejoorin, has been released by the state command of the Nigeria Police Force after spending almost 24 hours in detention. Adejoorin was arrested in Ilesa on Saturday after a shooting during Read more…


The Northern Ethnic Youth Group Assembly (NEYGA) has called on Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, to publicly address allegations that he received foreign funding to destabilise Nigeria. The group’s demand came Read more…


Iran’s politburo-like body known as the Supreme National Security Council said the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the United States “corrects its behavior,” issuing new demands that could shake up talks on a deal to manage the waterway Read more…


John Cardinal Onaiyekan has been known as a temperate, sagacious, and even-handed man for all his 82 years on earth. Anyone now trying to cast him in the mould of a rabble-rouser does so in vain. President Tinubu, in his Read more…


…As Stakeholders Task Alor Women on Proper Child Upbringing, Communal Child Training By Uzo Ugwunze The newly inaugurated Community Women Leader of Alor Community, Lady Ifeoma Uzokwe and other Stakeholders have tasked mothers to sit up and teach their children Read more…


15 killed, 27 arrested  |  Police to deploy over 17,000 officers No fewer than 15 people have been killed, while 27 suspected political thugs and cultists have been arrested by the police ahead of the 15 August governorship election in Read more…


No fewer than 13 residents of Efeyi community in Otukpo local government area of Benue State killed by suspected armed herdsmen were laid to rest in an emotional mass burial. Grieving family members and sympathisers trooped out early on Saturday Read more…


A former Finance Minister, Dr Kalu Idika Kalu, has criticised some provisions in the 2026 Budget, noting that government should not be overtly involved in budgeting for renovation of churches, mosques and palaces of traditional rulers given the enormity of Read more…


At this Augustinian shrine, which he visited two days after his election to the papacy, Pope Leo will preside over Mass on September 7, on the eve of the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A painting Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Anambra State Police Command on Saturday joined the Department of State Services (DSS) and other sister security agencies in a sensitisation walk against violent crime across the State. The exercise brought together personnel from the various Read more…