Drop your presidential bids, Afenifere leader tells Tinubu, Osinbajo

Leader of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said that presidential aspirants from the South-West geopolitical zone including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, should forget their presidential ambitions. He said it was the turn of the South-East to produce Nigeria’s next President after the regime of the […]

Power generation crashes by 903MW, national grid crisis persists

The Nigerian government is working towards generating 20,000 megawatts by 2026 and 60,000 megawatts of electricity by 2060. ay.

The latest figures on Nigeria’s power grid performance released on Tuesday showed that the quantum of electricity generated on the grid had continued to fluctuate, as it fell by 903 megawatts on Monday, April 18, 2022. Nigeria’s electricity grid has been characterised by some sort of instability lately, witnessing about four different grid collapses in […]

Abuse: Why we suspended female student —Chrisland

A female student has been suspended by Chrisland School, Lagos for allegedly engaging in an “immoral act”. However, the student’s mother claimed her daughter was raped by some male students of the school in a room. The female student, whose identity was hidden by journalist because she is a minor, was videotaped while the “immoral […]

Akeredolu debunks death rumour with viral video, wife excited

Following the rumoured death of the Ondo State Governor, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, the governor and his handlers have released a video in which the governor was seen singing and dancing inside a room. Recent media reports had claimed that the governor was hospitalised abroad. But his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Richard Olatunde, in a statement, […]

Nigeria records continuous decrease in COVID-19 cases, deaths -NCDC

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said the country recorded a continuous downward trend in the spread of COVID-19 infections. The agency reported that there was also a decrease in the number of samples tested across the country in the past week. This was contained in the COVID-19 situation report that was made available on […]

Key stakeholders insist on LG Fiscal and Administrative Autonomy

In a bid to enhance participatory democratic governance and quality service delivery at the local government level in the country, Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL), a United Kingdom-funded governance programme, during the week, engaged media executives in Kaduna, to mobilise support for the ratification of Constitutional Amendment Bills before the State Assembly. Mr […]

Kaduna: man defecates in mosque to claim N20,000

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have burnt down the parish house of Saint Raphael’s Catholic Church in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing a Seminarian in the process.

A Shari’a Court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, on Thursday, ordered that two men, Nura Usman and Adamu Dauda, be remanded in a correctional facility for allegedly defecating in a mosque. According to report the police charged Usman and Dauda with public nuisance andacinciting violence. The judge, Malam Rilwanu Kyaudai, adjourned the case until April […]

HOW OSINBAJO BECAME VICE PRESIDENT & WHY TINUBU MIGHT NOT SUCCEED BUHARI IN 2023

…Osinbajo’s Road to Abuja: The Untold Story By Olawale Olaleye Since his emergence as Nigeria’s number-two citizen, different accounts had been flying around on how Professor Yemi Osinbajo, actually secured the coveted vice-presidential slot, a majority of which revolved around the person of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, his former boss. Indeed, the recent revelation by Chief […]

National Assembly passes amended 2022 budget, approves N965.42bn borrowing

The National Assembly has passed amendments to the 2022 Appropriation Act and 2022 Fiscal Framework, which raised the deficit in the Federal Government’s budget by N965.42 billion to N7.35 trillion. The Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, considered and adopted reports on the amendment bills at the plenary on Thursday based on the request […]