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Former President, GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN has advised Nigerians to vote for credible leaders who have the country at heart and would see Nigeria as their project. He gave the advice during an interview with newsmen in Minna, Niger State after a visit to the former Head of State, General ABDUSALAM ABUBAKAR, who recently returned from foreign medical treatment. The former president ...

World and Commonwealth Champion, TOBI AMUSAN, has been conferred with Nigeria’s National Honor, Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) by President MUHAMMADU BUHARI. The President presented the award of recognition to world record sportswoman, TOBI AMUSAN during a reception for the Nigeria 2022 Commonwealth Contingent in State House, Abuja President MUHAMMADU BUHARI also an...

Justice EMEKA NWITE of the Federal High Court Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept and publish the name of GODSWILL AKPABIO, as the candidate of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) for Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District in next year’s election. Delivering Judgement, Justice NWITE held that INEC acted illegally by refusing to accept and publish AKPABIO’S name even when it ...

The Federal Government  has cautioned road users along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to exercise discipline as they drive through the construction zones of the busiest road in West Africa. Director, Federal Highway (South-West), Federal Ministry Of Works and Housing, ADEDAMOLA KUTI said on a monitored television program that motorists know it is a construction zone which allows movement of 30km per h...

Reactions are trailing the remarks made by President MUHAMMADU BUHARI that his administration has done well in the last 7-and-half years. A lecturer at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, DR. SEYI ADELOWOKAN while speaking on Super FM’s current affairs program Super Review, noted that the first 4 SDG goals: Poverty, hunger, health/wellbeing and education were abandoned by the government, in the name of constructing physical infra...

Ogun state, where violence have broken out in Agosasa, a town in Ipokia Local Government Area, which occurred over the selection process of a new king. The Public Relations Officer of the Ogun State Police Command, ABIMBOLA OYEYEMI, confirmed the incident. Residents say that at least 3 people were killed, with some youths also burning down the cars and houses of some of prominent ...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ATIKU ABUBAKAR, says his administration will address the nation’s security challenges by taking tough decisions if elected in the coming general elections. With about six months to the polls, the PDP candidate promised to prioritize the revival of the economy, especially through private sector participation. H...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has delisted 1.1 million newly registered voters ahead of the 2023 general elections.  INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, FESTUS OKOYE, said this in a statement today, noting that Nigerians are aware of the cleaning up of the register of voters with the Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS).&n...

Several unions reportedly took to the streets in major cities to protest against the recently passed Aviation Act, 2022. The General Secretary of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, FRANCES AKINJOLE, says the workers are kicking against an Essential Service clause in the Aviation Law which categorized aviation workers as essential service providers. The...

Some residents of Lagos State has lamented the impact of heavy rainfall and the attendant floods that affected several parts of Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre. The early morning rainfall, which lasted about four hours, caused floods in many Lagos communities and forced motorists and road users to wade through gridlock and flooded roads to get to their respective destinations and handle their businesses....