•D’banj Nigerian singer, Dapo Oyebanjo, popularly known as D’banj, has been cleared of rape and N-power fraud allegations by the Nigeria Police Force and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission. In separate documents exclusively obtained by our correspondent today, the police and the anti-graft agency gave...
•The vexatious poster Celestial Church of Christ has made a U-turm on the invitation of Afrobeat singer, Habeeb Olalomi Oyegbile aka Portable and popular Fuji musician, Wasing Alabi Pasuma, to perform at the church’s praise night in Lagos. The announcement of the singers’ proposed participation had set the social media on fire after it went [&...
When Akinbode Rafiat, mid-fifties, first conceived the idea of a transport business five years ago, it almost unsettled her marriage. Her fashion business had earlier nosedived, while the private school teaching job she managed afterwards, with her NCE certificate, only earned her peanuts, reports Nigerian Tribune. Despite her husband’s object...
The federal government yesterday announced that a new minimum wage regime would come into effect on April 1, 2024. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Idris Mohammed, made this announcement, saying that the current N30,000 minimum wage would expire at the end of March 2024. “Certainly, there is a new wage regime that will [&h...
Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Plateau State chapter, Izang Aware, has said that Nigerians have lost confidence in the legal system in the country. He said that there’s therefore the need for introspection by legal practitioners to make the profession responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of the common man as their last ...
•Kogi REC residence and gunmen Armed men this morning attacked the official residence of the Kogi Resident Electoral Commission, Hale Gabriel Longpet, in Lokoja. Kogi is one of the three States that recently concluded off cycle governorship elections with the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Usman Ododo declared winner. Chief Press S...
Fighting resumed in Gaza today immediately after the expiry of a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas, with the first fatalities reported minutes later, according to health officials in the Palestinian territory. A live cam showed a heavy cloud of grey smoke rolling over northern Gaza, and apparent sounds of automatic weapons fire and expl...
•Stadium staff prepare the pitch ahead of the UEFA Europa Conference League Group A football match Legia football fans set a police officer on fire and injured three others last night as they pelted them with flares before a game against Aston Villa. Flares and missiles were thrown at police as the Legia fans were […]
•A NAF helicopter A Nigerian Air Force helicopter crashed in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, this morning. NAF spokesman, Edward Gabkwet, confirmed the development in a statement. He said all those onboard survived though they sustained “minor injuries”. The helicopter with the number NAF MI-35P crashed at exactly 7.45 am shortly afte...
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA, and the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, have said government agencies, ministries, departments, MDAs, have become undertakers of businesses in the country. They also lamented that rising inflation, multiplicity of taxes and threats of strike and protests, among others, have cont...

