•DIG Frank Mba and some police personnel deployed for election duty today Ahead of the Edo State governorship election today, the Nigerian Police Force has advised voters to return home after casting their ballots. Deputy Inspector General of Police, Frank Mba, who was a guest on Channels Television last night, said that only those accredited ...
•Governor Biodun Oyebanji Ekiti State governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has approved a work-from-home arrangement for civil servants in the state. This was announced in a statement by Yinka Oyebode, the governor’s special adviser on media, in Ado Ekiti today. According to the statement, the arrangement is aimed at further cushioning the effect of the...
The University of Ibadan has announced a three-week break for students, starting today, Saturday, August 31, following protests against the recent fee increase. This decision was outlined in a circular issued by the university’s management after a meeting with the Students’ Union leadership yesterday. According to the management, the break is ...
•NIMC portal In recent times, Nigerians have faced significant challenges with identification verification, particularly the stress of queuing at National Identity Management Commission offices and designated centres. As the agency responsible for managing Nigeria’s national identity database, NIMC has been pivotal in this process, but the ass...
•US Embassy, Abuja The United State Mission in Nigeria has asked some of its staff not to come to work on the first two days of the planned nationwide protests. Nigerians, many of them young people, have called for demonstrations from August 1 over soaring costs. Living costs spiked in Nigeria after President Bola Tinubu […]
•Fire An Australian father faced triple murder charges today, accused of setting his home ablaze and locking the door with his seven children and their mother inside. Three of the children — two boys aged two and six and a five-month-old baby girl — died in the weekend blaze in western Sydney’s Lalor Park, police […]
•Flood A primary six pupil simply identified as Joshua has been swept away by flood in Ikosi, Ketu area of Lagos State. The pupil was returning home from school alongside his colleagues when the tragic incident occurred on Taiwo Street in Ikosi, Ketu, Lagos, reports Daily Trust. Reacting to the tragedy, Joshua’s mother, a fruit […]
•Gunmen Gunmen at the weekend attacked the Makurdi residence of the lawmaker representing Logo- Ukum -Katsina Ala in the House of Representatives, Solomon Wombo. It was gathered that about four gunmen stormed the house about 11.30pm on April 6 by scaling the fence, reports The Nation. While trying to cut through the barbwire, the noise [&helli...
•Speaker of South Africa’s Parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula Investigators raided the house of South Africa’s National Assembly speaker today as part of a corruption probe, prosecutors and parliament said, prompting opposition calls for her to resign. Coming just over two months before national elections, the raid adds to the woes of the rul...
The remains of the late Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun, Alli Okunmade II, was laid to rest yesterday evening at his ancestral home in the Alarere compound area of Ibadan the Oyo State capital. Oba Balogun, who reigned for two years, died at the age of 81 yesterday at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, […]
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