Sani Bello, former aide-de-camp to Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, ex-military head of state, has shared the details of how his principal was killed during the coup d’etat of July 1966. In an interview with Daily Trust on Sunday, Bello recounted the incidents that took place on the day of the coup. Aguiyi-Ironsi was Nigeria’s first military […]
A 20ft laden container has fallen on a commercial bus in the Ojuelegba area of Lagos State, crushing nine passengers to death. Investigations reveal that the commercial bus was picking up passengers at the bus stop along the Ojuelegba Bridge when the truck lost control and fell over the side of the bridge. Early […]
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have successfully dismantled a trans-border drug cartel and arrested five leaders of the syndicates operating in parts of the world in a special operation that lasted weeks during which different quantities of skunk, methamphetamine and ephedrine as well as air compressors used to conceal and […]
Many Nigerians say the current hike in the prices of imported vehicles popularly known as “Tokunbo” has affected their desire to own cars. They said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday. They attributed the increase in Customs duties on imported vehicles to the high cost. […]
Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has accused his arch-rival and presidential candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his party of cloning the websites of two newspapers to spread fake news in the Hausa language against his own aspiration. Tinubu made the […]
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has urged the federal government to let higher institutions in the country go on break now for the students who registered last year to collect their permanent voter’s cards, PVCs. According to the association, the if the step is not taken, over four million students would be […]
11 persons were reportedly burnt beyond recognition in an auto crash that occurred at Soka Bridge in Ore, Odigbo council area of Ondo state on Sunday. Eyewitness accounts said that the accident involved a trailer and a Marcopollo bus. According to him “The trailer passed through one way and in the process collided with […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the request by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for the extension of the deadline for swapping old Naira notes to the redesigned ones to February 10. The CBN has before now given a January 31 deadline for the exchange of old naira notes of N200, N500 and N1000 […]
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has approved the appointment of Brig. Gen. Y. D. Ahmed as the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps. He will be officially taking over on Monday from Christy Uba who piloted the affairs of the NYSC for about three months. Uba, the most senior director, was […]
Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says N1.7 trillion worth of naira notes have been returned to banks so far — with N500 billion more to go. The bank on Sunday extended the deadline for the swap of the old notes for new ones at the commercial banks from January […]
