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Edo poll: Court dismisses suits seeking Ighodalo’s disqualification
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UTME failure: Phones, TikTok, parties, Nigerians search for what to blame
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Post-election conflicting judgments call for concern – Yiaga Africa
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Celebrities knock Wizkid for mocking Davido, Don Jazzy
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Tribunal restrains MultiChoice from hiking DStv, Gotv subscription rates
Why Abia policeman dropped his rifle, walked away from his job - Report
An investigative journalist known as 99% Oppressed on X.com has raised concerns about the situation of a police officer, Ugochukwu Nwaso, attached to the Abia State Police Command. According to the jo...
2nd May 2024
Edo poll: Court dismisses suits seeking Ighodalo’s disqualification
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed two separate suits challenging the Peoples Democratic Party’s primary election that produced Asue Ighodalo as the pa...
30th April 2024
UTME failure: Phones, TikTok, parties, Nigerians search for what to blame
Less than 24 hours after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board released the 2024 UTME results which recorded a a 77% failure rate, Nigerians have started identifying factors responsible for the...
30th April 2024
Post-election conflicting judgments call for concern – Yiaga Africa
A Civil Society Organisation, Yiaga Africa, has faulted the Nigerian judiciary for its conflicting judgments and inconsistencies in some of the election petition cases brought before the court after t...
30th April 2024
Celebrities knock Wizkid for mocking Davido, Don Jazzy
Afrobeat music singer, Wizkid, in a series of tweets on Monday, set social media agog when he made a mockery of Davido and Don Jazzy. As a result of the controversial tweet, Wizkid trended on X. He w...
29th April 2024
Tribunal restrains MultiChoice from hiking DStv, Gotv subscription rates
A Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, issued a restraining order on Multi-Choice Nigeria Limited from increasing its tariffs and cost of products and services. Mu...
29th April 2024
Libel: Court orders Linda Ikeji to pay NBM N30m damages
A Delta State High Court in Effurun has awarded N30 million damages against popular Nigerian blogger, Linda Ikeji, for a libellous publication against the Neo-Black Movement of Africa. The lawsuit had...
29th April 2024
Lagos moves to curb rising fire outbreaks
The Lagos State Government is planning a three-day international conference in response to the rising incidents of fire outbreaks in the state. The state Commissioner for Special Duties and Intergover...
29th April 2024
Afrobeat superstar, Wizkid slams Davido, Don Jazzy
Afrobeat music giant, Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, on Monday, set microblogging site, X.com, on fire when he took swipes at Davido and Mavin Records boss, Michael Ajereh, popularly know...
29th April 2024
Oyo LG polls: 80% eligible voters deliberately disenfranchised - APC
The Publicity Secretary of the All Progressive Congress, Wale Sadare, said about 80 per cent of eligible voters were deliberately disenfranchised in the local government election held across Oyo State...
29th April 2024
[ICYMI] How Betty Akeredolu abandoned me after serving for seven years on salary of N45,000/month - Aide
Folasade Adu, a former aide to Ondo State’s immediate past First Lady, Mrs Betty Akeredolu, has come forward with allegations of abandonment after serving the late Governor Rotimi Akerdolu’...
27th April 2024
Abraham Adesanya: Granddaughter posts moving tribute to ex-Afenifere leader who survived Abacha assassination attempt
Tutu Abraham Adesanya, a granddaughter of the late founding leader of the National Democratic Coalition, Senator Abraham Adesanya, has paid glowing tribute to her grandfather, 16 years after his death...
27th April 2024
Russian missile strike damages four Ukrainian power plants
Russia launched a “massive” missile strike at Ukraine overnight, damaging four power plants in the latest barrage targeting the country’s energy supply, officials in Kyiv said on Sat...
27th April 2024
Lawyers fault CJN's roles as NJC, FJSC chair
Lawyers have expressed concerns over the dual role of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Olukayode Ariwoola, who doubles as both the chairman of the National Judicial Commission and the Federal Judicial Se...
27th April 2024
AGF, others eulogise late Appeal Court judge
The Court of Appeal, Abuja division, on Thursday held a valedictory court session in honour of Late Justice Theresa Orji-Abadua, a presiding judge at the Benin Court of Appeal, until her death. The se...
26th April 2024
Slain Rivers policeman’s wife called his phone 51 times unaware he was dead - CP
A police inspector attached to the Rivers State Police Command, Sunday Baba, lost his life in yet-to-be-ascertained circumstances while on duty on Wednesday night. In mourning Baba who was attached to...
25th April 2024
Why Nigerians are upset at Multichoice's latest price hike
Multichoice Nigeria, on Wednesday, announced an increase in the prices of its DStv and GOtv packages in Nigeria four months after its last increment. The company reviewed prices in its packages across...
24th April 2024
EFCC withdraws appeal against order stopping Yahaya Bello's arrest
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has withdrawn the appeal it filed before the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division against the interim injunction that barred it from arresting the immediate pas...
24th April 2024
EFCC asks court to deny Binance executive bail
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday urged Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja to deny the bail application of the detained Binance Holdings Limited’s executiv...
23rd April 2024
Court adjourns ruling in EFCC's suit against Bello to May 10
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday adjourned till May 10 for ruling in the suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Be...
23rd April 2024
EFCC pledges to set aside arrest warrant if Bello shows up in court
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that the arrest warrant issued against the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello could be set aside if he were to show up in court a...
23rd April 2024
Lagos police arrest suspected cable vandal
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command, have arrested a suspected electricity cable vandal. The suspect, simply identified as Abu Ali, aged 35, was said to have been arrested by policemen from t...
23rd April 2024
UPDATED: Dana Air confirms Lagos airport runway incident, says aircraft grounded
The management of Dana Air has confirmed reports that one of its aircraft with registration number 5N BKI skidded off the runway at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Tuesday morni...
23rd April 2024
NERC transfers regulatory oversight to Enugu Electricity Commission
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has ordered the transfer of regulatory oversight of the electricity market in Enugu State to the Enugu State Electricity Regulatory Commission. This was ...
22nd April 2024
Soludo unhappy as Anambra burial laws ignored at Ezeife's funeral
The remains of the late former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife, was today buried in Awka, the state capital after a state funeral service held in his honour. This was according to the...
20th April 2024
Real estate developers elect new leaders for South West
The South-West zone of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria has elected 45 new executives into various positions across the six states in the zone, to run the affairs of its state chapter...
19th April 2024
Ex-Kaduna speaker denies approving a $350m World Bank loan for El-Rufai
A former Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Yusuf Zailani, has denied claims that the Ninth Assembly under his leadership approved the $350m World Bank loan obtained by former Governor Nas...
18th April 2024
NCAA suspends three private jet operators for operating commercial flights
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has suspended the permit of three private jet operators for engaging in commercial flights. This was according to a Riot Act on the NCAA’s website on Tuesda...
16th April 2024
Real estate developers raise concerns over alleged imposters
The leadership of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, Lagos State chapter, has decried a plan to hijack and absorb some alleged imposters into the association. This was contained in a s...
12th April 2024
Delta bloodbath: Soldiers invade community, arrest suspects
Residents of Olota, another Urhobo Creek community in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, have again raised the alarm over another military invasion of the community Olota community is...
11th April 2024
Russian strikes kill four in Ukraine's Kharkiv
Russian air strikes overnight in Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv killed four people and injured 11, officials said Thursday. Three rescue workers died during a second strike on a residenti...
4th April 2024