Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to order the immediate release of the detained leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria popularly known as Shi’ite, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky to avoid further loss of lives. Frank who was reacting to Monday’s clash between […]

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Yekini Nabena has said that the public altercation between the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the former Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has the capacity to affect the party in the forthcoming stand-alone elections. Nabena who is also the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with families of Precious Owolabi, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member with Channels Television and Deputy Commissioner of Police, Usman Umar of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, who died during the violent protest by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) in Abuja on Monday. The President […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said construction will soon resume on the abandoned Pen Cinema bridge at the Agege-Pen Cinema area of the state. A statement quoted the governor as saying this on Sunday while inspecting ongoing rehabilitation of major roads in the Iju area of the state by the Lagos State Public […]

Armed bandits have abducted four Turkish expatriates at a drinking joint at Gbale village in Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State. The incident, it was gathered, occurred at about 10pm on Saturday while the men were having fun at the joint. The victims are Yasin Colak, 33, Senerapal, 40, Ergun Yurdakul, 35 and Seyit […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced a trading surplus of N6.33 billon for May, which is 13 per cent higher than the N5.60 billion surplus posted in April. Details of the report contained in the May edition of the NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR) released yesterday attributed the modest rise to […]

THE body of Mrs. Funke Olakunri, daughter of Afenifere leader Chief Reuben Fasoranti, will be interred today. Mrs. Olakunri will be buried after a funeral service at Saint David’s Anglican Cathedral Church, Ijomu, Akure. She was killed by suspected gunmen at Kajola village on Benin/Ore road in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State. Mrs. […]

The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, said the nation had spent about N2 trillion on constituency projects without commensurate development at the grassroots. The Commission’s spokesperson, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday quoted the chairman as saying it at the induction of newly-qualified […]

The Supreme Court has rejected a request for it to review its last judgment in which it voided the participation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidates in the last elections in Zamfara State. A five-man panel of the court, led by Justice Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, in a ruling on Monday morning, struck out […]

Kano state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has constituted a powerful Technical Committee that would review and reposition the Almajiri system of education with a view to pull them out from the street. The Technical Committee is billed to fashion out ways of integrating the Almajiri system into the mainstream curriculum-based education system that complies […]