A bomb scare at the Bayelsa State Civil Service Secretariat on Wednesday caused panic and a swift evacuation of workers and visitors after an improvised explosive device (IED), suspected to be dynamite, went off in the complex.

“Something that is very peculiar to the kind of films that we make – we make films for the intellectual. We make films for people who can think. I don’t expect that everybody would like the film or understand the film. But I expect that the people that I am trying to appeal to would get it.”

Babale said unemployment and limited vocational opportunities had continued to expose many youths to traffickers who lured them with promises of better livelihoods.

The Court of Appeal in Abuja will on Thursday, hear a set of appeals challenging the legality of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national convention held in Ibadan, Oyo state, in November 2025, a development that could ultimately determine the validity of the party’s current national leadership.

Responding, Cubana Chief Priest confirmed his stance, writing, “yes oh hope say no be crime cuz I worked for Obi last election even as special adviser to an APC governor.”

The Federal Government has announced a comprehensive plan to strengthen security in schools across the country, pledging to overhaul the Safe Schools Initiative in collaboration with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa; and the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Tayo Ayinde, on Wednesday led the inauguration of Local Government Coordinators of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors in support of President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid in the 2027 general election.

An angry mob on Tuesday set ablaze a 22-year-old man suspected of vandalising an electricity transformer in Calabar, Cross River State.

According to the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Alhaji Yakubu Ahmed BK, the rally has been a traditional kick-off to the Fishing Festival.

For 19-year-old Chiamaka Onyia, a 200 level under graduate of the University of Lagos, mobile data isn’t just entertainment, its survival. Between online lectures, research for assignments, and managing several freelance graphic design gigs, she’s on the net every day just to keep up.

By Sola Ogundipe The Federal Government has been enjoined to declare a state of emergency on cancer in Nigeria as the disease continues to ravage families, even as rising treatment costs and national insecurity compound the plight of patients. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Primary Health and Communicable Diseases, ​Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, who […]

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has warned that certain discretionary provisions in the Electoral Amendment Bill passed by the 10th Senate could weaken the credibility of future elections, urging the National Assembly to delete any clauses that allow exceptions to the real-time electronic transmission of results.

Seven-Up Bottling Company (SBC) will once again participate in the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, with Aquafina taking centre stage as the company’s lead brand at the 11th edition of the event on 14 February 2026.

Electricity workers have issued a 21-day nationwide strike notice to the Federal Government over what they described as widespread anti-labour practices, wage violations, non-remittance of deducted tax, pension and worsening job insecurity in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, NESI.

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