•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has again postponed its resumption of plenary from Tuesday, April 23 to Tuesday April 30. This is the second time the House is postponing its resumption from the Easter and Sallah break, reports The Nation. The House was initially scheduled to resume plenary on Tuesday April 16 but [&helli...
•Gunmen Once again, tragedy has struck Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State, with reports indicating that at least 16 individuals have lost their lives. Suspected bandits, armed and dangerous, launched a brutal assault on several communities within the local government area last night, instilling fear and chaos, reports Nigerian Trib...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has again, raised the currency rate that is applied when determining customs charges at the nation’s seaports. Data from the Nigeria Customs Service’s official trade portal indicates that yesterday, Monday, February 12, the exchange rate was raised from N1,417.635 per Dollar to N1,444.56 per Dollar, reports D...
•President Joe Biden US President Joe Biden has confused a European leader with a dead predecessor for the second time in a week, telling a campaign event he met Helmut Kohl four years after the German chancellor passed away. The 81-year-old’s gaffe late yesterday came days after he said he had spoken to long-dead French […]
The Nigerian Senate today resolved again to summon all the security chiefs amid rising insecurity in the country. The upper chamber listed kidnapping, banditry, robbery and murder among security issues it said the federal government must confront urgently, owing to reports of spreads in many parts of the country, reports Nigerian Tribune. Sena...
•Cletus Ibeto The ongoing trial of the Chairman of Ibeto Energy Development Company, Chief Cletus Ibeto, over alleged N4.8 billion fraud amongst other offences before the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja was yesterday stalled due to the return of the case file by the trial judge, Justice Ismail Ijelu to the Chief Judge of […]
Two persons were killed in another attack by assailants in Durbi village of Shere district, Jos East Local Government Area. The attack is coming when the state is yet to recover from the death of over one hundred ninety persons in the Christmas Eve attacks on Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi local government areas of the state, […]
•Boko Haram insurgents Chibok town, Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, is in the news again following a fierce attack by Boko Haram insurgents, killing two persons and injuring scores. Chibok was for the first time in the global news in April 2014, when the insurgents stormed the Government Girls Secondary School there and […]...
•Celine Dion Claudette, Celine Dion’s sister, has provided a grim update on the singer’s ongoing fight with Stiff-Person Syndrome. She disclosed in a new interview that the multiple Grammy winner is having difficulty controlling some muscle movements, according to Agency reports. “She’s working hard, but she doesn’t have control over her muscl...
•Akeredolu and Aiyedatiwa Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, will commence his medical leave tomorrow, as a follow-up to his medical treatment, his spokesman, Richard Olatunde, has said. In a statement today, Olatunde said during Akeredolu’s absence, the Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, will assume the responsibilities of the govern...