•Appeal Committee Less than 24 hours after the declaration of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in Ondo State, three of the 15 defeated aspirants have filed a petition against the outcome of the election. The chairman of the five-member Appeal Committee and former governor of Bauchi...
American rapper Nelly and R&B sensation Ashanti have announced their engagement and the impending arrival of their first child together. The couple shared the news in an exclusive interview with Essence Magazine yesterday, marking a new chapter in their relationship. In the interview, Ashanti expressed her gratitude for the blessings that ...
•Police recruits The Police Recruitment Board, set up by the Police Service Commission to midwife the ongoing recruitment of Nigerians into the Constable Cadre of the Nigeria Police Force, has confirmed twenty centres for medical screening for successful and shortlisted applicants from the just concluded computer-based tests conducted by the J...
•Troops Nigerian Defence Headquarters has confirmed that 137 of the kidnapped Kaduna school children, comprising 76 females and 61 males, were successfully rescued. The Defence headquarters in a statement by the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, said the students were rescued in Zamfara State and will be transpor...
•Ikechukwu and Ella Nigerian rapper Ikechukwu Onunaku, popularly known as Ikechukwu has confirmed his separation from his wife, Ella. The former Mo’Hits rapper tied the nuptial knot with his fiancée, Ella in May 2021. Ikechukwu, in a recent interview with media personality, Daddy Freeze, confirmed split from his wife, citing “irreconcilable di...
•Yemi Cardoso and CBN logo The Senate has confirmed the appointment of 12 persons as members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This confirmation comes after a report of the Committee On Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions Committee of the CBN was considered during plenary today, reports Chan...
Mixed reactions have trailed the confirmation by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that the federal government has resumed the payment of subsidies on the premium motor spirit (PMS), otherwise known as petrol through the backdoor. Recall that during his inauguration on May 29, 2023, President Bola Tinubu announced an end to petrol subsidy,...
•Adolphus Wabara The Peoples Democratic Party has confirmed the appointment of a former President of the Senate, Adolphus Wabara, as the substantive chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees. Also, a former Governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi, was appointed as the BoT Secretary, replacing former Minister of Special Duties Kabir Turaki. Thi...
•Godwin Emefiele A deputy director in charge of Branch Operations in the Central Bank of Nigeria, Onyeka Ogbu, today, told a Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Maitama that he was aware of a $6.2 million payment request for international election observers. The former governor of the bank, Godwin Emefiele, is standing trial on [&h...
•Gunmen The Ekiti State Government has confirmed the abduction of students, teachers, and a driver in the Emure-Ekiti area of the state but vowed to ensure the victims are rescued. The Frontier had earlier this afternoon reported that gunmen had abducted six pupils and three teachers of a private school and their bus driver while […]