The newly elected chairman of Bakori Local Government Area, Katsina State, Hon. Aminu Dan Hamidu, has died barely two months after assuming office. Hon. Hamidu, who assumed office in April 2025, died yesterday, Monday, June 9, 2025, reports Vanguard. His cause of death has not yet been officially disclosed. However, unconfirmed reports suggest...
•Governor Abiodun addressing the contractor Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has directed the contractor handling the construction of the Denro-Ishashi-Akute road to complete the road reconstruction within the next two weeks. He gave the directive today during an on-the-spot assessment of roads in the Ifo Local Government Area of the state,...
•Fuel Scarcity The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, said yesterday that the petrol scarcity currently spreading to more states across the country will take at least two weeks to normalise. This is even as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NPCL insisted yesterday that it has adequate stock of the pro...
The member representing Awka 1 state constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Henry Mbachu has said no fewer than 34 persons were killed during cult-related clashes in Awka in the last three weeks. The lawmaker said it was disheartening that Awka was degenerating into an unsafe place, despite being the capital of the […]
•Nigeria’s Super Eagles The Minister of Sports, Senator John Enoh, has assured Nigerian football fans that the senior men’s national team, the Super Eagles, would have a new coach in the next one or two weeks. The Super Eagles have been without a substantive coach following the expiration of the contract of Jose Peseiro after […]
•Subsea cables Submarine cable company, MainOne says it may take up to two weeks to repair undersea cable cut which disrupted internet services in Nigeria, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Senegal, and other West African and East African countries since Thursday. The company said the cause of the network outage was as a result to a fault […]
•NIS C-G, Caroline Adepoju The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Wura-Ola Adepoju, says it will take two weeks between the point of application for green passports to be produced. Adepoju was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday, alongside the NIS Deputy Comptroller General, Kemi Nan...
The rush by Nigerians to leave the country for greener pasture reached its crescendo in the new year as 32,462 persons have so far applied for international passports and uploaded their documents from the Nigeria Immigration Service site between January 8 and 21,2024. Of these applications, 15,113 have reportedly been approved for biometric ca...
•Karim Adeyemi Borussia Dortmund forward Karim Adeyemi will be missing for “several weeks” due to an ankle injury, the Bundesliga club announced today. The 21-year-old winger “suffered a partial tear” of the ligament in last week’s 1-1 draw against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, Dortmund wrote on X, formerly Twitter. The club sai...
•Nigerian passports The Nigeria Immigration Service has assured Nigerians will receive their passports three weeks from the day of application submission except in cases of unanticipated technical difficulties. Speaking to reporters at the opening of the Igbogbo Passport Front Office in the Igbogbo-Baiyeku Local Council Development Area of Iko...

