The Virgin Atlantic Airlines has cancelled its morning flight today from Lagos to London abruptly. The Frontier exclusively learnt that passengers who were booked to fly the airline’s aircraft marked VS412 scheduled for take off by 9 o’clock this morning were shocked on getting to the Muritala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) ...
Despite repeated claims by some leading political parties in the country that they beat the July 11 deadline for uploading their National Assembly candidates into a dedicated portal of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, checks by our correspondent have revealed the contrary. Multiple sources at INEC have disclosed that no poli...
•Femi Gbajabiamila and House of Representatives The House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee probing the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council has come under growing pressure to widen its investigation by inviting Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, even as lawmakers ordered the Inspector-General of ...
•Late Christiana Nwosu Family members have launched a fundraising campaign to repatriate the remains of a Nigerian woman, Christiana Nwosu, who reportedly died of cardiac arrest while visiting the United Kingdom. It was learnt yesterday from a GoFundMe appeal signed by Chijioke Metuka on behalf of the Nwosu family, reports The PUNCH. According...
•Kidnapped Nura Umar Abdullahi Fresh accounts by family members of the abducted Chairman of Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Hon. Nura Umar Abdullahi, have revealed how heavily armed bandits laid siege to his residence for nearly two hours, killed four security personnel and civilians before taking him into captivity. One of tho...
•US embassy in Nigeria The United States Mission in Nigeria has reminded international travellers that the length of time they are permitted to remain in the United States is determined by an American Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer upon arrival, not by the visa’s expiration date. In a travel advisory posted by the mission, [&helli...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate yesterday dismissed claims that the ongoing amendment to the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) Act seeks to ban street preaching, clarifying that the legislation only retains existing provisions prohibiting preaching and hawking inside commercial vehicles in the interest of public safety. The clarification follo...
•Speaker Ondo House of Assembly, Olamide Oladiji The crisis rocking Ondo State House of Assembly yesterday deepened as the lawmakers calling for the removal of Speaker Olamide Oladiji insisted that the impeachment process against him would continue despite alleged intervention by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa. The aggrieved lawmakers also declared...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has ruled out an extension of the continuous voter registration exercise despite pressure from opposition parties and civil society organisations. INEC’s Deputy Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Wilfred Ifogah, said this on Channels Television last night. “So we just have to stop th...
•ATBU main gate Some female students residing in Block B of the female hostel at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, were robbed of their valuables by hoodlums in the early hours of yesterday. Recounting the incident, one of the students, Rejoice Duke, said: “At about 2 a.m. this morning, some guys came into the […]

