Category: News

Tony Okafor A former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, said there was no truth in the claim that he demanded N7bn for installing the state governor, Willie Obiano.He wonderd how he could have left N75bn for the governor and turn around to ask him to give him N7bn out of it. The former […]

• Bandits attacked church on March 21, kidnapped five persons, says Hayab• Gunmen abduct Catholic priest, Oyo couple, six others in Kaduna, Niger• Buhari orders service chiefs to identify, take out sponsors of bandits The Christian Association of Nigeria, Kaduna State chapter, has said no fewer than 100 residents of the state are in different […]

Sunday Aborisade The Special Adviser to the President of the Senate on Media and Publicity, Ola Awoniyi, said on Tuesday that his principal, Ahmad Lawan, never proposed an unlimited tenure for the office of the President of Nigeria. Awoniyi, in a statement in Abuja, said he was responding to a tweet which attributed a fabricated […]

Eniola Akinkuotu and Okechukwu Nnodim A Federal High Court in Lagos State has barred the Federal Government from blocking SIM cards not linked to National Identity Numbers next month.The Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy had, through the Nigerian Communications Commission, asked operators to block all SIM cards not linked to NIN by April 6, […]

Leke Baiyewu The House of Representatives’ Committee on Customs and Excise has proposed a revenue target of N1.56tn for the Nigeria Customs Service in 2021, up from the original N1.4tn proposition. The amount was set for the NCS in 2020 before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic that led to a downward review of the […]

Eniola Akinkuotu The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says he personally travelled to Niger Republic to beg the country to allow the Nigerian government to construct the $1.95bn railway from Kano State into Maradi in Niger Republic.Amaechi said this on Channels Television’s ‘News Night’ programme on Monday which was monitored by our correspondent. The railway […]

Hon. Tolu Babaleye has commended the good representation provided by the lawmaker representing Akoko North East and North West Federal Constituency, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo. This he stated after plying several roads within the region which according to him had taken a huge positive facelift which was made possible as a result of the commitment and […]

Olalekan Adetayo, Eniola Akinkuotu and Friday Olokor President to spend two weeks in United Kingdom for routine checkup Residents doctors fault FG, say it failed to implement agreement The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors on Monday insisted on its plan to begin a nationwide strike on Thursday, saying the Federal Government was not sincere in […]

Nigerians tired of fasting, introduce stimulus, Tinubu tells FG A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says Nigerians are tired of fasting, adding that the Federal Government must introduce a stimulus package rather than preaching austerity.Tinubu said this at the 12th Bola Tinubu Colloquium held in commemoration of his 69th birthday […]

John Charles, Makurdi Some assailants, on Sunday, stabbed a 55-year-old woman, identified as Mrs Eunice Omaye Odoba, to death in Otukpo, Benue State. The mother of three, whose husband is a pastor of the Lord’s Chosen Church but is on faith mission to Equatorial Guinea, was said to have been stabbed in the chest. Her […]