Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo state has assured that his administration will continue to expand skill acquisition programmes, ensure regular monitoring of the training centres and strengthen partnerships where necessary for apprenticeship and job placement.

Hundreds of youths from across Ondo State on Monday stormed Ore, headquarters of Odigbo Local Government Area, to protest the continued detention of Prince Owolemi Emorioloye by security operatives.

A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar has convicted and sentenced Okon Ekpo Effiong, a 33-year-old man to death for aggravated assault, rape and armed robbery.

By Ozioruva Aliu BENIN CITY – OVER one week after the anti-kidnapping protests in Ekpoma, Edo State that went violent, leading to the arrest of many, a group, Edo State Civil Society Coalition for Human Rights, yesterday, called for the unconditional release of Collins Aigbogun, the former Special Adviser to Governor Monday Okpebholo from police […]

By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—The police in Bayelsa State have arrested alleged key suspect in the June 2015, abduction of the state High Court Judge, Justice Eniyerin Omukoro. The suspect, popularly known as ‘Ogbono’ said to be a post graduate student of a federal university, was arrested by operatives of Operation Puff Adder of the Bayelsa […]

The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, on Monday called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to urgently rebalance the membership of the newly constituted National Task Force on Clinical Governance and Patient Safety, warning that its current physician-dominated composition could undermine patient safety and weaken public trust in Nigeria’s health system.

Nigerian scholar, Kehinde Sowunmi, has called for a deeper, written engagement with the histories of Nigerian women, warning that reliance on oral traditions alone risks reducing complex female figures to frozen symbols rather than living memories. Sowunmi, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, made […]

The Southern Kaduna All Progressives Congress (APC) Unity Forum has passed a vote of confidence on the administrations of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, declaring its full support for their re-election.

Employee wellness issues will be the focus of a one-day conference on Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) holding at the Chevron Recreational Centre, Gbagada, Lagos on Thursday.

Nigeria’s former Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN, will deliver the maiden convocation lecture at Eko University of Medicine and Health Sciences, EkoUnimed, just as he is also among those to be honoured with fellowship awards by the institution.

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), in collaboration with Inter Core Solutions Limited, has launched a five-day training program for 100 youths on Meter Assembly, Installations, and Calibration in Lagos State. The program began on January 19, 2026, and will run until January 23, 2026. The initiative aims to equip participants with practical […]

In a renewed push to curb measles and rubella infections and close immunisation gaps in Lagos State, the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) has deployed nearly 5,000 trained community volunteers to support the ongoing Measles–Rubella (MR) vaccination campaign across the state.

By Innocent Anaba The family of the late Mr. Eto Obhuo, a former engineer with Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has demanded justice and compensation from the oil giant and its allied entities over his death, which they alleged was caused by gross medical negligence. In a pre-action letter dated September 19, 2025, written by […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has cautioned Nigerians against insulting or attacking political leaders, particularly Peter Obi, saying such actions do not serve the nation’s interest.

AS the 2026 World Economic Forum, WEF, opens in Davos, Switzerland, a new report  released by Oxfam in Nigeria yesterday  revealed that billionaire wealth across the world jumped three times faster in 2025 to $18.3 trillion.