ISWAP Distributes Old Naira Notes To Passengers On Borno Highway

  Suspected members of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have distributed huge amounts of old notes to scores of commuters in the Lake Chad Basin ahead of…

EXTRA: Visitors Without PVC Barred From Oluwo’s Palace

  The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, on Tuesday said possession of the Permanent Voter’s Card (PVC) would be required for every visitor to his palace. He stated…

Obasanjo To Nigerians: Take Back Nigeria For Good

  Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians to take back the country as the general elections approach. A statement by Prof Chris Mustapha Nwaokobia, Director Of Public Affairs and…

Three Million Students Must Be Allowed To Vote – Peter Obi

  The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said over three million Nigerian students who are eligible to vote in the forthcoming presidential election should not…

Reps approve Buhari’s N1trn loan request, defer decision on N22.7trn extra-budgetary spending

  The house of representatives has approved the request by President Muhammadu Buhari to secure an additional N1 trillion loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The loan will…

Bauchi LP campaign director defects to PDP over ‘lack of structure’

  Alhassan Bawu, campaign director of the Labour Party (LP) in Bauchi state, has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Speaking on Tuesday at a media briefing in Bauchi,…

NNPC takes over Addax Petroleum assets

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it has taken over Addax Petroleum’s production sharing contract (PSC) assets. Addax is owned by Sinopec, a state-owned Chinese firm. Mele…

Court fixes Feb 15 to decide on eligibility of Nigerians in diaspora to vote

  A federal high court in Abuja has fixed February 15 to deliver judgment in a suit seeking to allow Nigerians in diaspora to vote in the forthcoming general election.…

Suspected Terrorists Kill 28, Abduct 15 In Burkina Faso

  Twenty-eight people have died in new attacks by suspected jihadists in Burkina Faso, including 15 who had been abducted at the weekend, the authorities said Tuesday. Fifteen bodies bearing…

Alleged N15.5bn Fraud: Court Orders Police To Produce Bamise Ajetunmobi

  The Lagos High Court sitting in Osborne, Ikoyi has granted an application compelling a judgement debtor, Bamise Ajetunmobi, to appear before it on Thursday, February 2. In October 2021,…

Some Politicians Want To Clone BVAS Machines – INEC

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says some politicians are allegedly trying to gain access to the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) hardware in an attempt to clone it.…

Nigeria Falls In Latest Corruption Index Ranking

  Although the country maintained its previous score of 24 out of 100 points in 2022, it fell to 150. According to the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, which aggregated…

Ex-convict arrested with guns, charms at Kwara APC rally

  The Kwara State Police Command has said a 44-year-old man was on Sunday arrested at the All Progressives Congress campaign rally in Ilorin, with two locally made guns and…

No govt can solve all problems, says Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday, said no single government was capable of solving all the problems of the country. He said the way out was for successive governments to be…

49 boys drown in Pakistan boat accident

  Forty-nine children died when their overloaded boat capsized in northwest Pakistan, police said Tuesday after divers spent three days dragging bodies from freezing waters. The boys aged between seven…