A House of Representatives member-elect, Mr Tunji Akinosi, has debunked the alleged rumour making the rounds that his car was involved in an accident by knocking down a hawker. Rather, he said the video making the rounds was done in…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out the N1.84 billion money laundering charges brought by the Federal Government against Colonel Nicholas Ashinze (rtd), a former Military Assistant to Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) and eight others. Dasuki was a…
The Editorial and Publicity Board, Community Development Service (CDS) of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Wednesday empowered 100 Internally Displaced persons (IDPs) with entrepreneurial skills. Mr Samuel Isangedighi, president of the CDS, said the training was to make…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Imo, Samuel Anyanwu, has vowed to scuttle Governor Hope Uzodinma’s re-election bid. Anyanwu, incumbent PDP National Secretary, was formerly a local government chairman, House of Assembly member and Imo East Senator. On…
Abia State Governor-elect Alex Otti and the Labour Party (LP) have raised the alarm of massive looting of government properties by appointees and civil servants. Otti and his party identified public institutions and government facilities, including the Government House and…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, has advised the Nigerian government to tailor the country’s academic curriculum to suit its needs. The UN agency gave the advice stated this at a capacity-building workshop for officials of the…
A 29-year-old woman, Hanaa, reportedly killed her five-year-old son, Youssef, with a machete at their home in Egypt before boiling and eating parts of his head. The woman has been arrested by the police after her son’s uncle discovered the…
Following the removal of the Abia State House of Assembly Speaker, Chinedum Orji, on Tuesday, it has emerged that his trusted allies participated in the plot to sack him. The Speaker, popularly known as Ikukuoma (Goodwind), was impeached by a…
A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Buba Galadima, has insisted that his only regret as President Muhammadu Buhari prepares to leave office this month is that he has left Nigeria’s polity doubled by religious and monetization issues. Galadima…
The gubernatorial candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in the last election in Ogun State, Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, has said that tourism and the hospitality sector is the only viable alternative to oil in the country. Oguntoyinbo…
