By Nwabueze Okonkwo The timely intervention of a police team from Awada Police Division in Anambra state saved a vigilante operative attached to NIPCO Petrol Station from being lynched by angry residents of Ohiri and Anene Close by Ezeiweka road in Awada metropolis. The vigilante operative who the residents simply identified as Chika, according to […]

The Governors elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are to meet on Wednesday ahead of the party’s National Executive Committee meeting Scheduled for Sept. 8 Chairman, PDP Governors Forum, Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, disclosed this in a statement issued by the forum’s Director-General, Mr C.I.D Maduabum, in Abuja on Wednesday. […]

Against the backdrop of the recent coup d’tat in Guinea Conakry, Nigeria’s Minister of Defence Major General Bashir Magashi (rtd) has charged African militaries to remain committed to the preservation of democracy on the continent.

The Police Command in Ogun on Tuesday said its operatives have arrested a 64-year-old man, Ayotunde Taiwo, for allegedly defiling a 2-year-old baby in Ogun. The command’s Public Relation Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Ota, Ogun. Oyeyemi explained that the suspect was arrested following a […]

The Nigerian Government and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have agreed to setup a Business Council, a platform to bring together businessmen of both countries to increase the volume of bilateral trade. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Geoffrey Onyeama, and his Saudi Arabian Counterpart, Prince Abdalla Al-Saud, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja after […]

Chairman of the South Governors Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu has raised the alarm that Nigerians are living in fear over the unending insecurity across the country.

…Says many successes achieved…Laments 33,000 generators powering telecom sites By Emmanuel Elebeke The minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami says President Mohammadu Buhari has empowered only security institutions in the country to gain access to people’s information without confronting the ministry, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, or the service providers to […]

The Borno Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has sacked two Sharia Court Judges.A statement on Tuesday in Maiduguri signed by an official, Mr S.K. Jidda, for Secretary of the Commission, said the decision was taken after the meeting of the commission. “The commission with immediate effect removed from the service of the judiciary, an Upper Sharia […]

By Ibrahim Wuyo, Kaduna  Bandits have on Monday night, abducted 8 people in the Keke community of Chikun Local Government area of Kaduna State,but 5 were able to escape.  The PPRO of the Kaduna State Police Command,  ASP Mohammed Jalige said that their men were on the bandits trail and claimed that they rescued the […]

ANAMBRA State government yesterday warned candidates and the political parties contesting the November 6 governorship election in the state to stop denigrating the state in the name of campaign, advising that such misinformation would not be in their best interest.

The Imo State Police Command on Tuesday said it has killed two suspected ex-convicts in Obiapko Community in Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, over alleged robbing and raping women in the Obiakpo community.

By Shina Abubakar The management of Obafemi Awolowo University has dismissed another lecturer, Dr Adebayo Mosobalaje, for committing sexual demeanour against a female student. The school had in June 2018 sacked Professor Richard Akindele over his involvement in sexual harassment of a female student. A statement issued by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Abiodun Olarewaju, […]

Full funding for medical treatment of Miss Amarachi Okoro, a second-year student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), who was diagnosed with Melanoma (a type of skin cancer), has been taken over by the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State.

By Luminous Jannamike ABUJA – The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, on Tuesday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, for the compulsory enrollment of corps members in health insurance. The agreement was signed between the NYSC and the National Health Insurance Scheme in Abuja. READ ALSO:NYC Smile Design – The brainchild of Dr Ramin Tabib and […]

Mirable Centre, Nigeria’s first Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC), has announced HRH The Duchess of Cornwall as Patron.