The Adamawa State Government has ordered the immediate closure of all public and private schools in the state following the outbreak of measles. The directive, which was given today, is aimed at mitigating the spread of the disease and enabling the State Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA) to vaccinate the vulnerable age group, repo...
Graduates of Itsekiri, Ijaw and Ilaje ethnic nationalities in Delta and Ondo states, have threatened to shut down operations of Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), in 21 days over alleged “gross marginalisation and oppression” of its host communities. Under the auspices of National Association of Itsekiri Graduates (NAIG), (KOMBOT) – Egbema and Gba...
•Referee Simon Hooper gives a yellow card to Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah Referee Jarred Gillett will wear a camera during today’s Premier League match between Crystal Palace and Manchester United, officials have announced. The Premier League stressed footage from the camera will not be broadcast live, but rather used as part o...
•Governor Fubara (centre) with a delegation of political and traditional leaders from Bayelsa State Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, today, criticised the attitude of the members of the Rivers State House of Assembly towards his administration, saying the members will cease to exist as legislators if he so decides. He said the ...
•Governor Fubara and Speaker Amaewhule The political face-off between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and the Rivers State House of Assembly is showing no signs of reprieve as the House is tackling the governor over the state’s Public Procurement Law. At the plenary today, the Speaker of the House, Martin Amaewhule, accused the governor of financia...
•Speaker Obasa and IGP Egbetokun The Lagos State House of Assembly has kicked against the position of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Olukayode Egbetokun, that Nigeria is not ripe for the establishment of state police. Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, directed the Clerk of the House, Barr. Olalekan Onafeko, to write the [&...
•Barber Callistus Okolie An Abuja-based barber, Callistus Okolie, who yesterday, described Davido as the third biggest musician in the Nigerian music industry has declared that he had not received the N2 million cash gift promised to him by an X user who tweets as @MrDablue. Okolie made this known in a telephone interview with our […]
•Ganduje Two different groups from the North Central have filed suits seeking to nullify the position of Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The groups are the Concerned North Central APC Stakeholders and the North Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Forum, reports Daily Trust. The fir...
•Edo Speaker Blessing Agbebaku The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Hon. Blessing Agbebaku, today, suspended three members of the Assembly over an alleged plot to impeach him and other members of the Principal Officers Council (POC). The suspended lawmakers are Hon. Donald Okogbe (PDP Akoko-Edo II), Bright Iyamu (PDP Orihonmwon Sout...
•Trump The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money trial has fined him 1,000 dollars (nearly £800) for violating his gag order – and sternly warned the former president that additional violation could result in jail time. The fine marks the second sanction for Trump for inflammatory comments about witnesses since the start of the [&hell...

