President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has invoked provisions in Sections 2(4)(4) and 16(1)(C) of the NYSC Act, and approved a far-reaching reform which makes compliance with the National Policy for the Nigeria Education Repository and Databank, NERD, a mandatory requirement for…
China’s former agricultural minister was sentenced to death on Sunday on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve, a court statement said. Tang Renjian accepted cash and property bribes totalling more than 268 million yuan ($38 million) between 2007 and 2024,…
The Federal Government on Sunday dismissed claims by some international platforms and online commentators that terrorists in Nigeria are carrying out a systematic genocide against Christians. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, in a statement on Sunday,…
The Nigeria Police Force said it rescued a 24-year-old Ghanaian national who was trafficked into Nigeria with fake promise that he would obtain a Canadian visa. The force, in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, on…
HRM Oba Omotooyosi Bayo M Akinleye, the olukosi of Ilukosi-Ijesa has declared that no king in Igbo land can tie the shoe lace of Olubadan. Stating this while he slammed Labour Party’s Peter Obi for calling Olubadan his brother in…
The Labour Party has decried the alleged physical attack of its National Chairman, Julius Abure, by a woman identified as Precious Oruche, popularly known as Mama P, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The incident happened on Friday and…
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has suspended the sale of petrol in naira. The decision which comes amid escalating disputes at the refinery, where labour unions have accused management of sacking more than 800 Nigerian workers. Newsmaxng reported that Dangote refinery…
Two migrants died overnight while trying to cross the Channel to Britain, French authorities said Saturday, adding that some 60 others had been rescued. The incident occurred south of the beaches of Neuchâtel-Hardelot, when about 100 people were trying to…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), said that President Bola Tinubu does not have the constitutional power to send the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on terminal leave. Falana was reacting to a viral…
The recently reinstated Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has dissolved the Rivers State Pensions Board with immediate effect. The governor said the office of the State Accountant General will handle the functions of the Board until a new board…
