Suspected Boko Haram terrorists yesterday abducted scores of passengers and drivers along Maiduguri- Damaturu road, setting ablaze some trucks loaded with food items as well as a petrol tanker.

By Nnamdi Ojiego The National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has presented the certificate of return to Hon. Oladipupo Adebutu as the winner of the gubernatorial primary election held on 25th May, 2022, at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta in Ogun State. The PDP National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, while making […]

The US has ordered the seizure of two aircraft belonging to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, according to multiple reports and a court filing on Monday. According to the court documents seen by Al Arabiya English, the US believes a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and a Gulfstream G650ER aircraft “owned and/or controlled” by Abramovich violated a sanctions […]

A two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father in Florida after his parents left a loaded gun unattended, local authorities said Monday. When police officers, alerted by a 911 call, arrived at the victim’s home near Orlando on May 26, they found the child’s mother Marie Ayala providing CPR to her husband, Reggie Mabry. […]

The political tempo in the oil-rich Delta State has been tempestuous in the last few weeks over a “bridging finance facility” of N150 billion approved by the House of Assembly for the State Government.

By Emma Una, CALABAR  THE National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, Cross River State chapter on Tuesday thronged the office of Comrade Godwin Nyiam, Director General Road Transport Regulatory Management Agency, TRAMA to declare support for his emergence as Deputy Governor on the APC platform in the 2023 election. The NYCN State Chairman, Comrade Dan […]

Nigeria’s electricity grid to suffer more collapse — Report

Elon Musk is threatening to pull his $44 billion Twitter buyout, accusing the company of hiding information about the number of bot and spam accounts on the platform. In a letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, lawyers for Musk said that Twitter has refused to hand over its user data so that […]

By Kingsley Omonobi, Dayo Johnson, Anayo Okoli, Dapo Akinrefon, Marie-Therese Nanlong, Omeiza Ajayi, Gabriel Olawale, Shina Abubakar, Luminous Jannamike & Ademola Adegbite •How my legs were shattered by dynamites —Attach Margret, nurse  •I lost my mother, legs during attack —Ozulumba, timber merchant  •I was bombed at the altar —John Nwogwu  •Over 100 people died —Gloria […]

By Miftaudeen raji  In the wake of the controversy that greeted the announcement of Senate President Ahmed Lawan as the consensus candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC by the Chairman of the Party, Adamu Abdullahi, former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu has said the Chairman could not have acted on his own. […]

The Big Brother Naija ‘shine ya eyes’ reunion is getting more intense than expected. This is as housemate Maria was dragged by Angel for her relationship affair with a married man. Angel Smith who’s still hurt after hearing all that was said and done behind her while she was in the house had borne out […]

By Dapo Akinrefon  Former governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, yesterday, urged Tinubu to tread with caution, as he prepares for the presidential primary. Fayose, in an open letter to Tinubu, warned the presidential hopeful that he “may be swimming against the political tide of the cabal in your party.” The letter reads: “Let me […]

By Niyi Okiri A pressure group, Legacy Transformation Initiative, LTI, has called on Nigerians to be wary of the unhealthy trend of money politics going on in the country, especially at this period of selection of party representatives. The group, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Ibe Lawson, stated that it is high time monetary […]

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