•Late Akwa Ibom CP, Waheed Ayilara To unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Waheed Ayilara, some hours after an uneventful surgery, the Lagos State Government has constituted a medical panel to review the clinical circumstances leading to the death. The panel constituted on the direc...
74-year-old Emir of Gobir in Gawata town of Sokoto state, Alhaji Isah Muhammad Bawa was abducted by bandits on Sabon Birni road last month alongside his biological son on his way to his native town of Sabon Birni, near the border with Niger, after attending a meeting in Sokoto. His abductors demanded N1 billion ransom […]
•NLC President Ajaero and IGP Egbetokun The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has confirmed that its president, Comrade Joe Ajaero, was invited by the police for an interview related to an ongoing terrorism investigation. The confirmation was contained in a statement by the Congress’ Head of Information and Public Affairs, Comrade Benson Upah, mad...
•Tinubu There are indications that Nigeria’s frequent electricity system collapse will continue because of 10 deep-seated problems facing the power sector and the inability of the government and other stakeholders to find lasting solutions to them in the short term. Checks by our correspondent, yesterday, identified the reasons to include obso...
“We don’t tell people about prices of tomatoes and pepper again because they may fluctuate at any time. Sometimes, we sell at a particular price in the morning and by noon or evening, the price changes.” This was how Mrs Hannatu Ajiji, an official at the Tomatoes/pepper Market along Bauchi Ring Road, Jos, Plateau State, […]
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, today, admitted avoidable professional errors by its troops in the airstrikes that were executed in Tudun Biri Village, Jabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State last year during which several innocent citizens were reportedly killed. Addressing Defence Correspondents in Abuja at the bi-weekly briefing on the on...
•UTME candidates No fewer than 6.9 million candidates sat the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination between 2019 and 2022 with only 2.03 million of them admitted into tertiary various institutions while 4.87 million candidates failed to secure admission. Among the 4.87 million candidates, who failed to secure admission, are 4,385 candidat...
Dana Air has grounded one of its aircraft with registration number 5N BKI, after it veered off the runway at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. The airline confirmed the incident, saying that the aircraft was flying in from Abuja to Lagos today Tuesday, April 23 when the incident occurred but that all 83 passengers were […]
The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has called on the federal government to investigate the management and Board of Trustees of the Cement Technology Institute of Nigeria (CTIN) over alleged diversion of N20 billion intervention fund meant for training of students and development of CTIN. The National President of the assoc...
•Nigerian Senate President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio today inaugurated a 17 man adhoc Committee to investigate the Ways and Means and the Anchors Borrowers Programme under the immediate past administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Senate had last month following the report of its Joint Committees on Banking, Insurance and other Fin...

