•Bandits At least 23 people have been reportedly killed by bandits, who attacked the Anguwar Danko community near Dogon Dawa district in the Eastern part of Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Birnin Gwari shares a border with Katsina State. Although the police authorities in Kaduna are yet to confirm the incident at […]...
Organised labour, comprising the Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, has demanded N615,000 as the new minimum wage for workers in the country. An impeccable source, who is an executive of organised labour, who did not want to be named because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, told our correspondent that […]
•Atiku and Tinubu Phrank Shaibu, Special Assistant to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has tackled the Minister of Works, David Umahi, for failing to immediately disclose the full cost of the Lagos-Calabar highway project. Atiku, who was the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election, had yesterday a...
•Emefiele The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a fresh 26-count charge bordering on abuse of office & corruption against the immediate former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele will be arraigned before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja on Monday, April 8 on co...
An aggrieved governorship aspirant in Edo State, Hon. Anamero Sunday Dekeri, has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, praying it to declare him the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the impending election in the state. Dekeri, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Henry Akunebu, SAN, equally wrote the [&h...
•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...
•Ganduje and son Umar Engr. Umar Abdullahi Umar, Executive Director, Technical Services of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), is the son of ex-Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). President Bola Tinubu had appointed Umar into the new REA management team following the indefinite suspens...
The federal government, in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), repatriated another batch of 147 irregular Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya yesterday. Amb. Kabiru Musa, Charge d’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, disclosed this in a statement. Musa said the evacuees who departed Tripoli Int...
•Protesters Residents of Suleja in Niger State have taken to the street to register their displeasure over the high cost of living in the country. Today’s protest is coming after a similar protest in Minna, the state capital just two days ago, reports Channels TV. Suleja, the commercial nerve centre of Niger State, is only […]
•Fulani herdsmen Several persons have been killed in a fresh attack on the Ugboju community in the Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. While conflicting reports trail the exact number of casualties, a source told our correspondent that nine people died in the latest violence in the North-Central State, reports Channels TV. The attack [...

