Beyond the Headlines
A total of 14 bodies have been recovered while six are still missing in Tuesday’s boat mishap in the Koko/Besse Local Government Area of Kebbi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the boat was conveying about 100 rice farmers to Samanaji, a riverside community when it capsised. Already 80 people were rescued […]
Director of Special Projects and New media of the Tinubu/Shettima presidential campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has described Labour Party’s Peter Obi as a non-starter who would get only 2 per cent of the votes in northern Nigeria and ultimately lose the 2023 presidential election. The former Aviation minister in an interview on the […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the collection of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) at registration areas/wards across the country would commence on Friday. In a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye on Thursday in Abuja, the commission said that the collection at ward level would […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has announced the International Conference Centre ICC, Abuja as Collation Centre for the presidential election, which holds next month. This was part of the decisions taken at the Commission’s regular weekly meeting which was held on Thursday in Abuja and deliberated on several issues, including the venue for […]
Eight suspects, including a couple, are currently explaining to the Police in Ogun State how they lured, killed, butchered and sold the body the parts and organs of a female friend. They told the Police that after killing her, they cut off the head, legs and the two hands, which they sold to ready […]
Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo state said the Second Niger Bridge executed by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is enough for the Igbo people of the South-East geopolitical zone to vote for the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in 2023. Uzodimma made this assertion during an interview on […]
Former governor of Imo State and lawmaker representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha has denied joining the Peoples Democratic Party, from the ruling All Progressives Congress. Senator Okorocha made the clarification in a statement signed by his Special Adviser (Media), Sam Onwuemeodo on Thursday. Okorocha noted that those behind the rumoured defection merely […]
Decades after mental health regulatory reforms have languished in the legislative chambers with failed attempts at overhaul in 2003 and 2013; President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed into law the Mental Health Bill harmonised by both Houses of Assembly in 2021. The signing which seems to be a parting gift to Nigerians from the […]
Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has promised to convert Nigerian Internet fraudsters known as Yahoo boys to technology experts. He noted this during his campaign rally in Benin, the Edo State capital, yesterday. Tinubu, who flew into the ancient city from Kano where his campaign train berthed on […]
In the first quarter 2022, the 11 electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) failed to remit N69.94 billion to the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company (NBET) and the Market Operator (MO), The Nation learnt on Thursday. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) broke the news in its Q1 2022 report, which our correspondent obtained in Abuja. […]
