•Tinubu No fewer than 1,000 northern Islamic clerics have told President Bola Tinubu to drop his 2027 re-election ambition, citing killings, kidnappings and acts of terrorism across the country, particularly in the North-West. The demand was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of a national conference on “An Assessment of the State of ...
•Police women and Dangote truck The Aliko Dangote Foundation has commenced the implementation of its share subscription grant initiative for Nigerian women, with the programme extending to eligible policewomen and military women. The Dangote Group confirmed to our correspondent that eligible female personnel in the police and military are amon...
A passenger has died aboard a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi to Lagos after reportedly becoming unresponsive shortly before the aircraft landed in Lagos. Kenya Airways confirmed the incident in a statement issued by its Corporate Communications Department today. The airline said the medical emergency occurred at about 9:20pm Nigerian time y...
•Protesting support staff union members of Port Harcourt Refining Company Support Staff Union members of the Port Harcourt Refining Company have protested the delay in the payment of their seven months’ salaries and the non-implementation of a new salary structure recently approved by the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria National P...
Twenty-six hours after the Nigerian Air Force’s ATR-42 airplane crashed into a swampy at Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, an Amphibious excavator, boogie man, just arrived in the town. The heavy-duty machine is expected to evacuate the bodies of victims and the wreckage of the airplane sunk and stuck in the 30 […]
•Squadron Leader Ahamefule Aham Man-Ugwueje and Flight Lieutenant Damilola Adekunle during their wedding in Abuja on September 19, 2026 Squadron Leader Ahamefule Aham Man-Ugwueje, one of the pilots of the Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 aircraft, NAF 931, which crashed in Igbokoda, Ondo State, yesterday, got married in an elaborate ceremony in Abuja...
•The late twin sisters – Dr. Hadiyah Usman and Dr. Aidah Usman (PharmD) Twin sisters died forty eight hours apart in Yobe State, it was gathered. The deceased sisters — Dr. Hadiyah Usman and Dr. Aidah Usman (PharmD), who were 28-years-old, were children of Dr. Hadiza Usman and Dr. Usman Abdullahi, reports Daily Trust. The […]
•A crashed aircraft The Nigerian Air Force has released the names of five crew members and 20 passengers who lost their lives in the 931 aircraft accident which occurred in Igbokoda, Ondo State, yesterday. In a statement signed by Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, Director of Public Relations and Information, Headquarters, Nigerian Air Force, the ...
•It is the latest dot in a 10-year pattern of public NAF mishaps Explainer 9:13 a.m. The signal vanished. A Nigerian Air Force ATR-42, 25 passengers and seven crew on board, en route from Benin City to Lagos on a routine support mission. Then, silence, reports Channels TV. Hours later, wreckage near the Naval Base […]
•Tinubu and the crashed military aircraft (Photo credit: Premium Times) President Bola Tinubu has declared a three-day national mourning over the military aircraft crash in Ondo and is also calling for a probe into the incident. He also directed that flags should be flown at half-mast throughout the country as a mark of respect to […]

