•Salah and Osimhen The African football landscape is set to witness an exhilarating showcase of talent in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), with Nigeria’s Victor Osimhen and Egypt’s Mohamed Salah at the forefront. Top Scorer in AFCON Qualifiers: Osimhen emerged as the top scorer in the 2023 AFCON qualifying series, netting an impressive ...
Some academic and non-academic staff members of the Kaduna State University have decried the non-payment of their salaries. The workers said they had yet to receive any salary since they were employed three years ago as they were excluded from the state’s payroll, reports Saturday PUNCH. According to them, this was mainly because of the [&hell...
•Zulum The Borno State Government has approved the immediate release of over N55.9 million for payment of registration fees of 153 medical students in a bid to resuscitate the health sector which is the worst hit by the insurgent crisis. The Executive Secretary of the Borno State Scholarship Board, Malam Bala Isa, disclosed this while [&hellip...
There is tension and an uneasy calm across some states in the country as the Supreme Court is set to deliver its final judgments on the governorship elections that are still being challenged in courts. Governorship polls were held in 28 of the 36 states of the federation in March 2023. While the outcomes in […]
•Nigerian Senate The Chairman Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Adeyemi Adaramodu has denied media reports that senators received rice worth N200million from President Bola Tinubu for distribution to their constituents as palliatives during the Yuletide. However, a Senate source confirmed the development, saying some of the rice pa...
•Muhammad Dattijo The official quarters of a retired Supreme Court Justice, Muhammad Dattijo, were burgled during the Christmas holidays. The quarters for Supreme Court justices are in Maitama in Abuja. Sources privy to the incident said that the home was stripped bare as the burglars “took everything from the house,” reports The Nation. “The ...
•The suspects The Nigeria Police Force says its Cybercrime Centre acting on a petition at the instance of Doctor Mrs Seye Oladejo has arrested three persons in connection with a case of cyberstalking and threat to life. The spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement yesterday, said suspects namely Adebukola...
•Rev Yakubu Pam The Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) has announced that 2023/2024 Main Pilgrimage exercise to Rome and Greece will commence end of this month. The NCPC also formally released the cost and breakdown of the Pilgrimage package in a letter dated 28th December, 2023 and addressed to the Chairmen and Secretaries of all [&h...
•Bode George A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has lamented the security situation in the country, saying that it has gone beyond control. He said the situation the country is in at the moment has gone beyond playing politics, adding that President Tinubu has a lot of work to […]
By the Rivers of Uta Ewa, in Ikot Abasi LGA, Akwa Ibom State, there we sat down to remember our fatherland, our homeland. It was December 23, 2023, the onset of harmattan haze. The riverside was gloomy, a perfect picture of Nigeria. The currents were strong and tended to change direction suddenly, a perfect picture […]

