BREAKING: Ex-NBA President, Akpata, emerges Edo LP guber candidate
The immediate past national chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olumide Akpata, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the Labour Party for the September governorship election in Edo. Akpata, who was a senior partner and the Head of…
JUST IN: Sunday Igboho returns to Nigeria
Embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has returned to Nigeria. A statement by Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, on X page on Thursday, February 22, confirmed that the activist returned to the country for his late mother’s burial….
APC NWC drops Uzodinma, appoints Otu to conduct primary in Edo
The National Working Committee NWC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has dropped the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma as Chairman of its Edo State Primary Election Committee. In his stead, the party appointed a member of the…
OAU staff killed by lion was rescuing female colleague
Olabode Olawuyi, the zookeeper tragically mauled to death by a 9-year-old lion at the zoological garden of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, was attempting to rescue a female colleague from the beast. This was revealed by Wole…
ASUU Rejects New IPPIS
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nsukka zone, on Tuesday rejected the emergence of a new Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). Our correspondent reports that ASUU over the past four years had a running battle with the…
JUST IN: Tinubu orders payment of Villa’s N342m electricity debt
President Bola Tinubu has directed an immediate settlement of N342m as an outstanding electricity bill due to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company by the State House. The President’s directive follows the reconciliation of accounts between the State House Management and…
EFCC arrests ‘pilot’ for alleged forex fraud
Operatives of the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Captain Nuhu Haruna for an alleged criminal breach of trust to the tune of N1,020,000.000 (One Billion, Twenty Million Naira only) According to…
EFCC Arrests 2 Chinese Citizens for Illegal Mining in Kwara
Another two Chinese nationals have reportedly been arrested by operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) over offences bordering on illegal mining activities. The suspects were arrested on Sunday at mining sites located…
NAFDAC, PCN seal off 1,321 illegal medicine stores in Kano
The National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), in collaboration with the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria (PCN), sealed off 1,321 medicine stores for operating illegally in Kano. Francis Ononiwu, the director of investigation and enforcement at NAFDAC,…
FG installs 30-second biometric gates for Immigration at Airports
In line with international standards and best practices, the federal government has installed 30-second biometric clearance gates for the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at all international airports in the country. The biometric gates can screen and clear a passenger within…