Politics

APC’s Abubakar rejects Bauchi guber election results

 The governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bauchi State, retired Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar has rejected Saturday’s...

Guber Polls: PDP’s Dauda Lawal defeats incumbent Matawalle in Zamfara

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Dauda Lawal, as the winner...

Zamfara Guber: LG returning officer ‘whisked to govt house’, PDP cries out

As the collation of the Saturday’s governorship election results got underway, the Zamfara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party...

BREAKING: INEC suspends collation of Abia, Enugu governorship election results

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended forthwith further collation of the Governorship election results in some parts of...

Sit at home if you won’t vote for APC, MC Oluomo threatens Lagos voters + VIDEO

Chairman of Lagos State Park and Garage Management, Comrade Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has threatened the electorate...

Economy

FG removes excise duty for telecoms services

The Federal Government has announced the removal of excise duty for telecom sub-sector of Nigeria's Digital Economy Industry in line with the recommendations of the Committee it constituted to review...

IMF approves US$3bn under the EFF arrangement for Sri Lanka

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved today a 48‑month extended arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with an amount of SDR 2.286 billion (395 percent...

Nigeria: Monitoring cyberspace during and after the 2023 presidential elections

The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), FCIIS, FBCS, FNCS, wishes to bring to the attention of the public the Ministry’s activities towards ensuring...

Nigerians decry cash crunch despite S’Court’s judgment

Nigerians are yet to access the new and old Naira notes days after the Supreme Court order reverting the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) directive to stop its use as...

Education

JAMB resumes 2023 Direct Entry registration exercise

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has resumed the suspended 2023 Direct Entry (DE) registration exercise. The Board has...

Whitney Adeniran: Lagos govt confirms Chrisland student electrocuted

The Lagos government has confirmed that Whitney Adeniran, the late student of Chrisland Schools in Opebi, Ikeja, died from electrocution....

JAMB sacks two workers for alleged forgery

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sacked two of its staff members for allegedly forging some documents. JAMB...

JAMB registers 1.6m candidates for 2023 UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it had registered 1.6 million candidates for its 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)....

JAMB shifts 2023 UTME registration till February 22

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration by one week, beginning from...

Foreign

ICC warrant: “Any attempt to arrest Putin would be a ‘declaration of war'”

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is warning Thursday that any attempt to detain current Russiann President Vladimir Putin following an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his alleged...

Spanish PM set to visit Beijing for Ukraine talks

PANISH Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit Beijing next week — with a Ukrainian peace deal on the agenda for talks. Spain’s Minister for the Presidency (a role responsible for...

Trump slams ‘enemies,’ others ahead of possible arrest: ‘They are all sick’

It was a restless night for Donald Trump, who ripped into ex-porn star Stormy Daniels Monday, claiming he’s a victim as a possible criminal indictment looms. Trump launched the tirade...

China’s Xi in Russia to meet Putin over Ukraine war

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Monday, seeking both to deepen economic ties with an ally he sees as a useful counterweight to the West and promote Beijing's...

Entertainment

The agony of losing my dad at a tender age – Omo Sexy

A top-rate actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, has revealed how her father’s death affected her in ways she could not imagine or handle....

Tiwa Savage turns actress, plays lead role in ‘Water and Garri’ film

Tiwa Savage, the award-winning Nigerian singer, has made her proper debut as an actress in a feature film titled ‘Water...

Sade Adu: Tems not first Nigerian female to win Grammy Award – Reno Omokri

Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has tackled Nigerians describing female singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, as the first female...

Tems wins first Grammy, as Burna Boy loses

Nigerian singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has won her first Grammy Award. She won the award at the...

Why we couldn’t avoid nudity in ‘Shanty Town’ – Ini Edo

Nigerian actress, Ini Edo, has offered reasons why the makers of: “Shanty Town,” a six-part series now showing on Netflix,...

Crime

Ekweremadu, wife, doctor found guilty of kindney harvesting plot

Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife have been found guilty of trafficking a man to Britain to provide his kidney to their ill daughter, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)...

Alleged N2bn fraud: EFCC arrests 4 NCAA officials

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested four top officials of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) over alleged N2 billion fraud. It was learnt that the arrested...

2023: Gunmen kill Labour Party senatorial candidate, 5 others in Enugu

Gunmen have killed the Labour Party (LP) senatorial candidate for Enugu East District in Amechi Awkunanaw, a community in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State, south-east Nigeria. The victim, Oyibo Chukwu,...

Obasanjo’s in-law bags 7-year imprisonment for forgery

Lagos State Special Offences Court has sentenced former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s in-law, Dr John Abebe to seven years of imprisonment for laundering and forgery. Justice Mojisola Dada gave the judgement...

Kidnap

Abducted C’River Commissioner: Kidnappers demand N150m ransom

After eight days in captivity, kidnappers of the Cross River State Commissioner of Women Affairs, Prof Gertrude Njar, have demanded N150 million for her release. This is according to an...

Gunmen kidnap 4 Catholic nuns on Imo highway

Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making...

Nasarawa State commissioner abducted by gunmen – Police

The Police Command in Nasarawa State has confirmed the abduction of Yakubu Lawal, Nasarawa State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism by gunmen. DSP Ramhan Nansel, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) confirmed...

Kogi govt vows to rescue 3 children abducted at Ajaokuta

The Kogi State Government says it is working vigorously to rescue three children kidnapped at a housing estate in Ajaokuta Local Government Area of the state on Friday. The abductors...

Metro

Sit at home if you won’t vote for APC, MC Oluomo threatens Lagos voters + VIDEO

Chairman of Lagos State Park and Garage Management, Comrade Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has threatened the electorate...

Nigerian prostitution mafia queen extradited to Italy

A most wanted Nigerian mafia queen has been received by the Italian police on her way straight into prison for...

At least 2 killed as train, staff bus collide in Lagos

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says two bodies have been  recovered at the scene of an accident involving a...

Fire razes shops at Lagos Akere auto spare parts market

Some shops were razed at the Akere Spare Parts Market, Olodi-Apapa in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State following a...

Top Appeal Court justice slumps, dies in office in Ondo

Justice Lokulo-Sodipe, an Appeal Court judge died on Monday, February 27, The Punch newspaper reports. The justice of the appellate...