NPO, stakeholders tackle Reps over press regulation bill
The Nigerian Press Organisation, which comprises the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, Nigerian Guild of Editors and the Nigerian Union of Journalists, has called on the House of...
View ArticleYPP declares Ifeanyi Ubah Anambra gov candidate
THE Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Ifeanyi Ubah, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, for the November 6, Anambra...
View ArticlePick 2023 presidential candidate from South, Shekarau tells APC
A former Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has urged the All Progressives Congress to field a southerner as its presidential candidate in 2023. Shekarau, who is now a serving senator, made the...
View ArticleBuhari to determine APC convention date – APC governors
GOVERNORS elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has the final say as to when the party’s proposed national convention...
View ArticleDividing Nigeria may be better for all
I am sure there is no breathing being around the world who does not know that Nigeria is at the brink of collapse and disintegration. Every nook and cranny of our nation is bedevilled by deafening...
View ArticleWomen in China and gender equality scam
Being born in China as a girl or residing within the Chinese territories is indicative of a part of crossing life’s hurdle. Though the Chinese Communist Party crows about great economic growth in the...
View ArticlePresident Buhari, the bolts and nuts please
Worried about the deteriorating security situation in the nation, a university professor and friend asked me a question: “With Buhari as President, why is the security situation what it is?” He...
View ArticleIf Nigeria’s current dangerous situation deteriorates further, the...
Mr Peter Akpatason is the Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and member, Ad hoc Committee on Constitution Review. In this interview with PETER DADA, he speaks on the ongoing public...
View ArticleAlleged killer-cultist remanded in Osun
A suspected cultist, Azeez Mudashiru, who allegedly killed two members of a rival cult, was on Thursday remanded in the Ilesha Custodial Centre. The defendant, who was arraigned on five counts...
View ArticleSuspect with 3kg cannabis withdrew from varsity six years ago – ATBU
The management of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, has stated that the 27-year-old man arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Lagos is no longer its...
View Article18-year-old #EndSARS protester gives birth in prison custody
One of the persons arrested for vandalism during the last #EndSARS protest in Ondo State, Kemisola Oguniyi, has reportedly given birth in the prison custody. The 18-year-old girl was arrested, along...
View ArticleIPMAN warns of fuel scarcity as East-West road bridge collapses
BARELY two days after Ogoni Youth Federation staged a warning protest on the Aleto-Akpajo Bridge in Rivers State, a section of the bridge along the East-West Road, cave in on Thursday causing a serious...
View ArticlePastor, three others remanded for murder, possession of human parts
A pastor, Reuben Adetunji, and three others arraigned for murder before an Osun State Magistrates’ Court, sitting in Osogbo, were on Thursday remanded in a custodial centre. Also arraigned alongside...
View ArticleGani Adams writes UN, US, others over rising insecurity in S’West
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, has called on the United Nations, the African Union and the United States of America to intervene in the recent killings in the South West, warning...
View ArticleNewborn found in Kano well, teenager dies in pond
The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed the death of a one-day-old baby found inside a well at Tsalle village in the Gezawa Local Government Area of the state. A statement by the Public Relations...
View ArticleNDDC hasn’t lived up to its responsibilities – Obaseki
EDO State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of the Niger Delta Development Commission in the area of projects execution. Obaseki specifically said the...
View ArticleEnugu East holds rally, demands governorship ticket
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Thursday said that justice and equity would determine his successor in 2023. Ugwuanyi disclosed this in a rally held by the people of the Enugu East...
View ArticleBandits collect N16m for 11 victims, hold 17, demand N17m
Bandits have released 11 women out of the 28 abducted in the Kabode Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The kidnappers had initially demanded N30m as ransom, the community said. Sources said...
View ArticleBuhari mourns as Zambia’s first President, Kaunda, dies
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has described Zambia’s founding father and independence nationalist, Kenneth Kaunda, as “one of the greatest African and world leaders of all time...
View ArticleRelate with DPOs to address insecurity, Wike tells LG chairmen
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has told newly sworn in chairmen of the 23 local government areas of the state not to approach any financial bank to borrow money without first clearing with...
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