The political crisis rocking Rivers State appears to be unending. The state House of Assembly, led by Mr. Martin Amaewhule, has asked Governor Siminialayi Fubara to sack all commissioners within 48 hours and submit a new list of nominees for appointment within the same time.

National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, yesterday, revealed that its security team has recovered two rifles, live cartilages, a machete, and other weapons hidden by unknown persons at the drug market, Niger Bridgehead, Onitsha in Anambra State, amidst the on-going clampdown on fake and counterfeit drugs.

THE First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Thursday, announced the plan to distribute 37,000 disposable sanitary pads, 10,000 per state including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to female students in secondary schools.

Nigeria has climbed to sixth place in the 2025 Global Terrorism Index (GTI) with a score of 7.658, moving up from eighth position in 2023 and 2024.

The recent Supreme Court verdicts on some of the lingering, clearly unnecessary political cases emanating from Rivers State may not end the imbroglio.

By Elizabeth Adegbesan The Naira yesterday appreciated to N1,512 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,515 per dollar on Tuesday. However, the Naira depreciated to N1,505 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM). Data published by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, showed that the indicative exchange rate for the naira rose […]

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, urged Nigerians, irrespective of their ethnic, religious and political affiliations to be patriotic in building Nigeria to an enviable status in the comity of nations.

Last week, I wrote that one column would not do justice to the significant issues General Ibrahim Babangida covers in his memoir, A Journey in Service. So, my focus was only on the events that led to the Civil War. This week, I want to tackle another subject: The Babangida regime’s annulment of the presidential election […]

Two persons were confirmed dead yesterday, while 14 others were rescued alive from the rubble after a three-storey building with a penthouse under construction collapsed, on Oriwu Street, in Lekki area of Lagos.

Native doctors, operating under the aegis of ‘Odinala Orumba South’, yesterday, subscribed to an oath at Izo Mmili, shrine at Umunze, in Orumba South Local Government Area, to ostracise any member found engaging in unethical activities.