By Olasunkanmi Akoni – Lagos The Head of  Service in Lagos State, Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola, yesterday, denied reports linking him with a fictitious race for Lagos State governor and plots to stop Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s second term bid in 2023. The clarification came following controversy trailing the reports that went viral on social media, last […]

Terrorists have again invaded two local government areas in Niger State, killing no fewer than 44 villagers, including a blind man while many were abducted.

OLOMORO community in Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, was yesterday thrown into confusion as an elderly woman was reportedly macheted to death by a suspected ritualist.

By Theodore Opara & Olasunkunmi Akoni – Lagos Motorists in Lagos State have expressed frustration and anger over the difficulties being experienced at the various test centres in the ongoing compulsory roadworthiness test for vehicles in the state. As part of the transportation system reform in the state to curtail incidents of road traffic accidents, […]

The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has said the National Executive Council, NEC, of the union will decide whether members should go on strike or not over some demands being made of the government.

AHEAD of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME, and Direct Entry registration billed to commence on February 12, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has hinted on its plan to establish self-service registration platform.

SEVEN years after he left office, former President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, revealed that he embarked on the Almajiri schools programme in the North while he was in office to infuse Western education curriculum into the Islamic education to make the pupils employable and check incessant crisis and insecurity.

THE International Monetary Fund, IMF, yesterday warned that worsening violence and insecurity could derail Nigeria’s recovery from economic recession.

THE present petrol scarcity in some parts of the country is a result of adulterated fuel in circulation, Vanguard investigation has revealed.

Members of the State Houses of Assembly across the country under the platform of the All Progressives Congress have endorsed Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, for President in 2023.

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Monday, said the Federal Government may consider request to extradite the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, to the United States of America, USA, to face trial over his alleged involvement with an internet fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, popularly known as Hussipuppi.

Ahead of the 2023 Presidential election, Governor Nyesom  Wike of Rivers State, yesterday in Kaduna, said Nigeria is bleeding and that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP,  needs  to take over power in 2023 from the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, to save the country.

Catholic Bishops of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province has, at its first plenary of 2022, expressed concern at the seemingly endless sit-at-home order in Igboland, every Monday.

Former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, yesterday warned all presidential aspirants to prepare for the onerous task of moving the country out of its present doldrum, declaring that Nigeria was living on extra time due the myriad of challenges confronting it.

Less than three weeks to the National Convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, reprieve came the way of the Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC of the party on Monday following the collapse of a factional CECPC led by Prince Mustapha Audu.