News

Commuters and motorists were stranded on Monday at the Jattu junction on the Benin-Auchi-Okene Highway as hundreds of youths staged a protest over the gully erosion ravaging the community and the incessant kidnapping of their people.A signific...

The Federal Government may sell the 11 power distribution companies through a re-privatisation process if the Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill, 2025, currently before the National Assembly, becomes law.The National Assembly has already initiated a legislative process to enforce sweeping reforms that could see core investors in electricity distribut...

Nigeria has recorded 152 deaths from Lassa fever so far in 2025.This was according to a report by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday....

...

...

The African Democratic Congress, has condemned what it described as the “fiscal vandalism” of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, following the National Assembly’s approval of an additional $21bn in foreign loans.The party said the new borrowing spree could drive Nigeria’s public debt beyond 200 trillion naira by t...

The National Working Committee, Social Democratic Party, has expelled former Kaduna Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, from the party.SDP declared El-Rufai as ineligible to associate with the party in any capacity for the next 30 years.Th...

The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has asked President Bola Tinubu to include refined petroleum products in the list of items banned under the ‘Nigeria First’ policy of the Federal Government.The ’Nigeria First’ policy seeks to ban government agencies from importing goods that can be produced within Ni...

Greek emergency services were battling many wildfires on Saturday afternoon as a week-long heatwave peaked with temperatures surpassing 45C degrees. According to firefighters, o...

At least six people were crushed to death at a popular Hindu temple in northern India’s Uttarakhand state on Sunday, officials said, after a massive crowd surge.The stampede occurred on the stairway leading to the Mansa Devi temple in the Hindu holy city of Haridwar, on the banks of the Ganges river, and left many injured.“Six dead and more than 10 injured are admitted to the hospital,” senior city police official Parmendra Dobhal told AFP...