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A resident nurse at the Lekki-based Dowen College, OMOBOLA KAYODE, has testified before the coroner inquiring into the controversial death of SYLVESTER OROMONI. The nurse who said she was trained in Ukraine started working at the school in November 2021, a few days before the death of the 12-year-old student. She testified that on November 22, the deceased came to the school clini...

Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, and other cities across the country experienced a blackout yesterday following the collapse of the national grid. No fewer than four Distribution Companies (DISCOs) confirmed the development via social media, informing their customers of the situation in their respective domains. They blamed the outage being experienced by consumers in various states and the F...

The rivers state governor, NYESOM WIKE has described his Edo state counterpart, GODWIN OBASEKI as an ingrate and serial betrayal after the latter’s outburst that the people’s democratic party does not belong to Governor WIKE. WIKE disclosed this while addressing a crowd at an event in Port Harcourt. He accused the Edo governor of ungratefulness to the party and the peo...

Vice President YEMI OSINBAJO has asked government agencies to be more responsible to the people they serve and hold them in high esteem, beyond core regulatory roles. He stated this when he received a delegation of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Professor OSINBAJO highlighted and praised the prompt response of the examinations body...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its warning strike by eight weeks. ASUU reached the decision after its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held at its national secretariat in Abuja. The union said the decision was taken due to the unwillingness of government to meet their demands in the four weeks they declared a warning strike....

Aviation jet A1 fuel is to be sold at 500 naira within the next three days to prevent airlines from shutting down. This is according to the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, MELE KYARI after a meeting with marketers, regulators and operators in the aviation industry. The meeting, which was presided over by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Re...

Senator LEKAN BALOGUN has been crowned as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadan land. The official installation of the paramount ruler of Ibadan land held today at the Mapo Hall in the Oyo State capital. The new Olubadan, adorned with a white crown and wine traditional attire popularly known as ‘Aso Oke’, ascended the throne in grand style to usher in a new dispensation in the t...

The crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken a new twist after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) rejected the notice for an emergency meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). INEC secretary, ROSE ORIARAN-ANTHONY, confirmed the commission’s decision in a letter dated March 9, 2022, and addressed to the party’s ‘national chairman’....

The Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Captain MUDA NUHU has disclosed that Airline operators cannot operate safely with a fifty-thousand-naira base for airfares.He made this disclosure at a meeting with the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, AHMED WASE, over the scarcity and high cost of aviation fuel in the country.Meanwhile, airline operators&nbs...

Governor DAVE UMAHI has appealed the Federal High Court judgement which ordered the removal of him and his deputy, ERIC IGWE, from office. According to a notice appeal filed Governor UMAHI, and his deputy stated that the Federal High Court erred in his ruling and they, therefore, disagreed with the entire judgment which ordered their sack for defecting to the All Progressive Congress (APC) from the People’s Democratic Party (P...