Shadow of presidential aircraft hangs over NASS emergency sitting today

• Sources: Cost of new jet will be included in 2024 supplementary budget • Sitting to consider wide range of issues, spokesman insists • Group voices concern over non-availability of…

Dangote Refinery fire raises concern over PMS production delay

Nigerians call for more vigilance to prevent sabotage The fire incident at a section of the Dangote Refinery has raised concerns of imminent delay in Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) production from the facility.…

Cholera: Nigeria records 54 deaths, 1,579 cases in 32 states

• Experts call for water quality testing in Lagos, Ogun • FG in talks with GAVI on vaccines, says NCDC The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has announced…

Tinubu not discriminating against North, says Shettima

Gbajabiamila leads FG’s delegation to console VP over loss of in-law  Vice President Kashim Shettima has said President Bola Tinubu has good intention for the growth of Northern Nigeria, as against…

Wife stabs husband to death in Yobe

Police operatives in Yobe have arrested a 22-year-old housewife, Zainab Isa, for allegedly stabbing her husband to death in the state capital, Damaturu. The spokesman for the state police command,…

Deposed Emir Ado Bayero now private citizen, Kano governor asserts

•Accuses ‘unpatriotic politicians’ of fuelling litigations •CP denies royal ties with embattled monarch Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State, yesterday, declared that the deposed Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero,…

NCC to sanction telcos for poor services

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disclosed plans to sanction telecommunications service providers that render poor services. Executive Commissioner, Technical Services, Abraham Oshadami, during the opening of a two-day upskilling…

Hundreds of APC members decry hunger, decamp to PDP in Ondo

• Declare support for PDP’s candidate, Ajayi, ahead of guber poll • PDP to inaugurate Edo, Ondo campaign councils today Hundreds of members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)…

Court reschedules ruling on Obong of Calabar stool for September 26

Justice Elias Abua of the Calabar High Court, has rescheduled his ruling on an interlocutory application filed by claimants in the renewed Obong of Calabar tussle. The legal battle is…

MOSOP warns against violence in Rivers, demands respect for constitution

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has warned feuding politicians in Rivers State to shun violence. This, it said, is to prevent the current political crisis…

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