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Yobe: Several Projects Ready For Commissioning, Says Commissioner
The Yobe state executive council at its first meeting of the year today lined up some infrastructural projects completed and ready for commissioning. Addressing the media after the EXCO Meeting, the state Commissioner for Information, [...]
President Tinubu To Attend Heads of State Energy Summit In Tanzania
President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja on Sunday for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to participate in the Africa Heads of State Energy Summit on January 27-28, 2025. The Summit, hosted by the government of Tanzania [...]
Crime & Security
Nigerian Pleads Guilty To Defrauding Over 400 Americans Of $6m
A Nigerian national, Okezie Ogbata, has pleaded guilty in a Florida district court to defrauding more than 400 elderly and vulnerable Americans of over $6 million through a transnational inheritance fraud scheme. According to the US [...]
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Impeachment: Obasa Rejects Removal, Says Due Process Was Not Followed
By Bukola Kayode Impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa has reacted to his removal upon his return to Lagos State. Speaking to his supporters who stormed his home, Obasa maintained [...]
Crime & Security
Police Storm Okigwe Forrest, Neutralise 3 ESN Terrorists
By Tonia Okereke Operatives attached to the Imo State Police Command have neutralised members of the proscribed Eastern Security Network. In a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja, by the NPF Force PRO, ACP Olumuyiwa [...]
Celebs
I’m Fully Back Into Acting-Bukky Wright
By Bukola Kayode Veteran actress, Oluwabukola Ajoke, aka Bukky Wright has revealed that she is fully back into acting with her return from America. The ageless beauty told Saturday Punch, that she has a new [...]
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PHOTOS: Obasa’s Dupporters Storm Residence As Ex-speaker Returns to Lagos
Some supporters of Mudashiru Obasa, impeached speaker of the Lagos state house of assembly, stormed the speakers’ lodge at Joel Ogunnaike street, Ikeja GRA, on Saturday morning. The ex-speaker’s supporters proudly done shirts and caps [...]
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President Tinubu Commends Finish Government On Arrest Of Simon Ekpa
President Bola Tinubu Friday in Abuja welcomed the intervention of the Finnish government, resulting in the arrest and detention of IPOB leader, Simon Ekpa, saying the Nigerian government will not tolerate actions and statements that [...]
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Tinubu Appoints Ganduje, Abe, Others As Board Chairmen, CEOs
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday, appointed board chairpersons for 42 federal organisations and a secretary to the board of the Civil Defence, Immigration, and Prisons Services. The President has also appointed a new managing [...]
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President Tinubu Inaugurates Army Barraks Named In His Honour
PRESIDENT TINUBU INAUGURATES NEW ARMY BARRACKS, COMMITS TO TROOPS’ WELFARE President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday commissioned the newly constructed Nigerian Army Barracks in Asokoro, Abuja. The state-of-the-art facility, named after the President, marks a [...]
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Real Madrid First Club To Generate 1bn Euros Revenue In A Season, Deloitte Reveals
By Bukola Kayode Real Madrid has become the first soccer team to register one billion euros ($1.04 billion) in revenue in a single season in 2023-24. Reuters reports the Spanish football giants as topping the [...]
MDAs
Insecurity Causing Agricultural Decline, Farmers Displacement, Poor Yield – Speaker Abbas
…laments youth shunning farms for quick-money ventures The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Abbas Tajudeen, has lamented the impact of insecurity on food production in Nigeria, saying the country has recorded a decline [...]
Celebs
Victor Boniface Denies Breaking Up With Norwegian Girlfriend
By Tonia Okereke Super Eagles player, Victor Boniface, has debunked claims that he has broken up with his Norwegian girlfriend, Rikkie Hermine. Boniface took to his X handle to caution blogs and persons spreading the [...]
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Appeal Court Upholds Ramon Adedoyin’s Death Sentence Over Murder Of OAU student
The Court of Appeal in Akure, Ondo State on Monday upheld the death sentence of Dr. Ramon Adedoyin, a hotelier over the murder of Timothy Adegoke, the late Master’s student at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), [...]
Entertainment
Oscar Nominations 2025: Full List Of Academy Awards nominees
By Kemi Yesufu The 2025 Oscar nominations have been announced after the delay caused by LA fires. A quick look at the list of nominees shows Jacques Audiard’s genre-bending musical Emilia Pérez leading the way with [...]
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OPINION: Ethical Revolution In The Age Of Tinubu
By Abimbola Adelakun If, by the end of his tenure, Bola Tinubu did not activate a socio-political orientation programme, he would have become the first president since 1983 to buck the trend. Civilian and military [...]
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Ganduje Seeks Decisive Action Against Banditry
To effectively add,ress banditry in Nigeria, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has emphasized the need for proactive and decisive measures, particularly targeting the criminal elements hiding in forests. [...]
Crime & Security
UPDATED: Police Gun Down Kidnappers Of Ex-AIG’s Wife, Rescue Victim
By Bukola Kayode The wife of Hakeem Odumosu, a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, has been rescued by the police from the Ogun State Police command with her abductors neutralised. An undisclosed amount of money [...]
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(OPINION) Reaching The Most Vulnerable In Nigeria: Our Humanitarian Roadmap 2025
By Mohamed Malick Fall On 23 January 2025, we will launch the 2025 Nigeria Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP). The plan targets 3.6 million of the most vulnerable people in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe [...]
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UNDP Announces Yobe State As Host For 5th Edition Of Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum
Joint Press Release Yobe State Nigeria, Set to Host 5th Edition of the Lake Chad Basin Governor’s Forum Theme: Rebuilding the Lake Chad Basin: Consolidating Gains, Commitment to Peace, Cross-Border Cooperation, Security and Sustainable Development [...]
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INEC Fixes February 21, 2026 For FCT Area Council Election
By Tonia Okereke The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that the Federal Capital Territory area council elections will hold on February 21, 2026. The INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, made the announcement on Wednesday [...]
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DSS Files Terrorism Charges Against Mahdi Shehu
The Department of State Services (DSS) has filed five counts of terrorism-related charges against self-styles activist, Muhammad Mahdi Shehu at the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna. The move came a day after the secret [...]
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Turji Flees To Maradun As Troops Eliminate His Second-in-Command
In a decisive military operation, Bello Turji, the notorious bandit leader, has fled to the Maradun Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara State amid a relentless onslaught by troops from Operation Fansan Yamma. In a [...]
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Ekweremadu’s Wife Released From UK Prison, Returns To Nigeria
By Tonia Okereke Mrs. Beatrice Ekweremadu, wife of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has been completed her prison term in the United Kingdom and returned to Nigeria. Vanguard quotes a reliable source as [...]
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New Seven Wonders Of The World
The Seven Wonders of the World are a group of places around the globe that are considered to be of great global significance. In years past, the wonders of the world include ‘The Great Pyramid [...]