May 12, 2025
2027: PDP can’t give presidential ticket to North – Wike warns
Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has insisted the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, cannot give their presidential ticket to the North ahead of the 2027 election. Wike stated this during a media chat on Monday. His comments appeared to be directed to PDP’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar. […]
Rivers crisis: What I told Fubara when he came begging – Wike
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has revealed details of the conversation when his estranged political godson, Siminalayi Fubara, came to beg for reconciliation. Wike had confirmed that the suspended governor visited him to plead for peace alongside two governors from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. At a media briefing on […]
Trump to slash pharmaceutical prices by 80%
United States President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order to lower prices of prescription drugs and pharmaceutical products. “Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be reduced, almost immediately, by 30 per cent to 80 per cent,” Trump said in a social media post. They will rise throughout the World in order to […]
Nigeria vs Senegal: All you need to know about 2025 U-20 AFCON tie
The stage is set for Nigeria’s 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, quarter-final tie with Senegal. The match will take place at the Suez Canal Stadium in Ismailia on Monday afternoon. Nigeria and Senegal have met previously in the tournament in the past. In 2015, the Flying Eagles defeated Senegal 3-1 in the group […]
BREAKING: Dangote Refinery reduces petrol price to N825 per litre
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has reduced the gantry price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol to N825 per litre from N835 per litre as competition continues in the domestic market. Recall that last month, the 650,000 barrels per day refinery reduced the gantry price of petrol to N835 per litre from N865 per […]
ASUU elects new president, identity revealed
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has elected a new president, Professor Chris Piwuna. Piwuna is a consultant psychiatrist at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital. He, who is also the Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Jos, succeeds Victor Osodeke, a Professor of Soil Science from the Michael Okpara University of […]
How I received healing at church programme – Akwa Ibom governor
The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno, has disclosed that he received healing from constant ill-health after attending a revival programme at The Apostolic Church, Nigeria, Maboju Assembly, Lagos. Eno made the disclosure at a Homecoming and Thanksgiving service at the church on Sunday, according to a statement signed by his Chief Press […]
Rivers: Some fights are not worth it – Fubara speaks on reinstatement
Suspended Rivers Governor Siminalayi Fubara has hinted that he is no longer interested in returning to office, as some fights are not worth getting into. Fubara, who spoke during a service of songs held on Sunday in Port Harcourt to honour the late elder statesman, Edwin Clark, said he is not eager to return as […]
Davido could someday become Governor of Osun – Ben Murray-Bruce
Former Bayelsa East senator, Ben Murray-Bruce, has predicted that Afrobeats star David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, will one day become the Governor of Osun State. Speaking in a recent episode of his Common Sense series, Murray-Bruce stated that Davido would succeed if he ventured into politics, given the Adeleke family’s political pedigree. He said, […]
Snakes, lizards take over Benue public schools as teachers, pupils abandon classes
Public primary schools in Owukpa, a district in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State, are facing a slow and painful extinction. Once nurturing grounds that shaped some of Nigeria state’s finest doctors, lawyers, journalists and professionals, these schools have now deteriorated into crumbling structures, deserted by both teachers and pupils, now overrun by reptiles. […]