President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday condemned Saturday’s attack on Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, and welcomed the decision of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, to unveil those behind the assassination bid with the aim of bringing them to book. The bid to kill the governor, by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen, drew more […]

THE Nigerian public should ensure that the COVID-19 AstraZeneca Vaccine being administered on them has the original label, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control said on Sunday. NAFDAC in a statement by its Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, said the advice became necessary to ensure that people were not at risk of […]

Governors of Ondo, Ogun and Osun states, Rotimi Akeredolu, Dapo Abiodun and Gboyega Oyetola, respectively, as well as a former Ogun State governor, Olusegun Osoba, have called for the review of the Board of Trustees and internal democracy in the All Progressives Congress. The governors and the ex-governor made their submissions on Friday at a […]

The Peoples Democratic Party has said that it is yet to decide on the zone to fly its flag in the 2023 presidential election. The PUNCH reported that the Governor Bala Mohammed-led Peoples Democratic Party Committee on the Review of the 2019 General Elections, had recommended that the party should throw open the contest for its […]

Nigeria recorded 130 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, taking the number of confirmed cases to 161,539 with 147,581 discharged and 2027 deaths.

The Kwara State Government, on Friday, deployed a task force to implement its directive to all schools in the state to reopen and all teachers to resume, despite the ongoing crisis over wearing of hijab in Christian mission schools. The government had ordered the reopening of the schools on Wednesday as Christian missions insisted that […]

In what has been described as a major breakthrough in the quest to resolve the murder of the House of Representatives candidate of the Social Democratic Party in 2015 general election in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State, Dr. Fatai Aborode, the Oyo State Police Command has arraigned an 80-year-old chieftain of the Peoples Democratic […]

Says false alarm had led commission to dead ends, waste of scarce resources Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, yesterday threatened to arrest and prosecute false whistleblowers, whose intention was to mislead the commission. He said several false leads had led the commission to dead […]

The Court of Appeal (Abuja Division), on Thursday, dismissed the alleged certificate forgery case filed by the All Progressives Congress, against Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki. The appellate court dismissed the suit for lacking in merit and awarded N250,000 cost in favour of governor Obaseki. The APC had in its suit alleged that the University […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed 135 new infections, bringing the number of infections in the country to 161,409. The NCDC made this known on Thursday night via its official Twitter handle, where it disclosed that the new infections were recorded in 16 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). “On March 18, […]