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    Rivers Crisis: Judicial panel faults  Supreme Court judgement

     An 11-man Independent Judicial Accountability Panel, whose membership included three retired justices, on Friday, faulted the Supreme Court over its judgement on the protracted...

    Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs creates 1.5m jobs, generates $4.2bn in revenue

    The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy empowering entrepreneurs is set to announce the 11th cohort of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme on Saturday, March 22, 2025. The 2025 announcement comes at a critical time, as Africa’s entrepreneurship ecosystem faces funding constraints and global economic headwinds....

    Rivers Crisis: House of Assembly adjourns sittings indefinitely

    The Rivers State House of Assembly has adjourned its sittings indefinitely thereby jeopardising the...

    Damagum bows as PDP Govs move to re-assert ‘selves over party affairs

    TheTwelve Governors elected on the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), have begun...

    Rivers Crisis: Judicial panel faults  Supreme Court judgement

     An 11-man Independent Judicial Accountability Panel, whose membership included three retired justices, on Friday,...

    Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs creates 1.5m jobs, generates $4.2bn in revenue

    The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy empowering entrepreneurs is set to announce...

    Trump’s immigration crackdown: FG, US finetune strategies for deportation of 201 Nigerians

    The United State of America's government and the Federal Government have started fine-tuning plans...

    24 year-old varsity student drowns in River Benue

    The Lifeless body of a 24-year-old student at Benue State University, BSU, Makurdi, Abel...

    Rivers Crisis: Judicial panel faults  Supreme Court judgement

     An 11-man Independent Judicial Accountability Panel, whose membership included three retired justices, on Friday, faulted the Supreme Court over its judgement on the protracted...

    Rivers Crisis: House of Assembly adjourns sittings indefinitely

    The Rivers State House of Assembly has adjourned its sittings indefinitely thereby jeopardising the...

    Damagum bows as PDP Govs move to re-assert ‘selves over party affairs

    TheTwelve Governors elected on the platform of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), have begun...

    Rivers Crisis: House of Assembly adjourns sittings indefinitely

    The Rivers State House of Assembly has adjourned its sittings indefinitely thereby jeopardising the...
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    Business

    Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs creates 1.5m jobs, generates $4.2bn in revenue

    The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy empowering entrepreneurs is set to announce...

    I can’t afford to let Ekiti people down—Oyebanji

    Ado-Ekiti—Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has reiterated the commitment of his administration to...

    About 90 people, not 500, affected in Alesinloye market fire, victims say

    Victims of Tuesday's fire incident at Alesinloye Market, Ibadan, have clarified that about 90...

    Barau Foundation partners BoA on N2.8bn loan scheme to raise 558 millionaire farmers

    Two weeks after announcing his plan to raise 558 young millionaire farmers across the...

    NAHCON reaffirms commitment to Pilgrims’ Welfare by Muhammad Ahmad Musa

    The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) is engaging with the Saudi service provider...

    Nigeria needs disruptive strategy to make significant progress – Nwala

    A Lawyer and policy strategist, Dr Oracle Nwala, says Nigeria needs a disruptive strategy...

    Alleged N33.8bn Fraud: How I spent N777m on orders of ex-Minister — Witness

    ABUJA-- Trial of a former Minister of Power, Mr. Saleh Mamman, continued before the...

    NLC slams tax regime, calls for Universal Wage system

    The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has criticized the tax regime of President Bola Tinubu's...

    Nigerian oil magnate, ‘Rahmaniya’, vows to challenge Dubai prison sentence

    ABUJA: Nigerian oil magnate and founder of Rahmaniya Group, Abdulrahman Bashar, has vowed to...

    Obi is our Flagbearer, will unseat Tinubu in 2027 — LP

    The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Labour Party (LP) on Friday endorsed Peter...

    JP Morgan delegation meets with Wale Edun to discuss investment in Nigeria

    A high-level delegation from JP Morgan, led by Dapo Olagunju, Head of West Africa,...

    BREAKING: FG slams 3-month suspension on Max Air after Kano incident

    The Federal Government, through The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), has announced the suspension...

    Exposed: How Wike bankrolled Bala Mohammed‘s Governorship campaign —  Dogara

    Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara has exposed the...

    Photo News Today: Heads of State Energy Summit, Others

    Heads of state Energy summit  VP Shettima launches 6th MSME Clinic, announces unconditional grant...

    Entertainment

    Photo News Today: Heads of State Energy Summit, Others

    Heads of state Energy summit  VP Shettima launches 6th MSME Clinic, announces unconditional grant of N300,000 for each Borno Entrepreneurs National Single Window Stakeholders Forum in Lagos European Union Ambassador visits INEC NMDPRA’s Gas Distribution License Award ceremony, in Abuja Inauguration of the Reconstruction of...

    Grand Celebration: Maiduguri stands still for Dalori’s daughters’ wedding

    In a spectacular display of love, solidarity, and celebration, the city of Maiduguri, Borno...

    Maiduguri aglow as dignitaries arrive for Dalori daughters’ wedding

    The city of Maiduguri is buzzing with excitement as Nigerian dignitaries arrive for the...

    MURIC condemns death threat, cyberbullying against US-based Nigerian Muslim lady    

    A US-based Nigerian Muslim lady, Shakirat Oluwatosin Raji, is currently being targeted for cyber...

    Uzodimma renews marriage vow with wife, Chioma

    All roads led to Government House Owerri in Imo State, Friday, as Governor Hope...

    Interviews

    Why Vatsa, nine other coup plotters were summarily executed — IBB

    Former military president Ibrahim Babangida has justified why his boyhood friend and classmate, Mamman Jiya Vatsa, and nine other top military officers, who were...

    Nigeria needs disruptive strategy to make significant progress – Nwala

    A Lawyer and policy strategist, Dr Oracle Nwala, says Nigeria needs a disruptive strategy...

    Obasanjo shares life lessons: From Military service to imprisonment, politics

    Former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed that his outspoken nature on national and...

    New year message: EFCC urges Nigerians to unite against corruption in 2025

      As Nigerians bid farewell to 2024, the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has called on citizens to recommit to the fight against corruption. In a New Year message delivered in Abuja, Olukoyede emphasized the crucial role of...

    “You Owe Your Political Success to Us”, PDP replies Kwankwaso

      The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has responded to Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso's claim that the party is dead, with Acting National Chairman Amb. Umar Damagum...

    Metro

    Rivers Crisis: Judicial panel faults  Supreme Court judgement

     An 11-man Independent Judicial Accountability Panel, whose membership included three retired justices, on Friday,...

    Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs creates 1.5m jobs, generates $4.2bn in revenue

    The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Africa’s leading philanthropy empowering entrepreneurs is set to announce...

    Rivers Crisis: Judicial panel faults  Supreme Court judgement

    An 11-man Independent Judicial Accountability Panel, whose membership included three retired justices, on Friday,...

    I can’t afford to let Ekiti people down—Oyebanji

    Ado-Ekiti—Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji has reiterated the commitment of his administration to...

    Nigeria refutes claims of targeted killings of Christians

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has refuted claims of targeted killings of Christians in Nigeria, describing the reports as misleading and aimed at influencing foreign governments, particularly the United States, to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC). In a statement issued on...

    Royals

    Breaking: Police arraign suspended Ogun monarch for assaulting 73-yr-old man

    The Ogun State Police command on Tuesday, arraigned the suspended Olorile of Orile Ifo, Semiu Adewale Ogunjobi, for assaulting a 73 year old man,...

    Ooni to Alaafin-elect: Embrace peace, be magnanimous

    The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has charged the new Alaafin-elect, Prince Abimbola...

    Alaafin-designate: Oyo kingmakers reject Owoade’s appointment

    Kingmakers in Oyo Town on Friday rejected Gov. Seyi Makinde’s appointment of Prince Abimbola...

    Oil & Gas

    NNPCL raises petrol price to N960 per litre in Lagos

    THE Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, has increased the price of premium motor spirit, PMS, also known as petrol in Lagos and its environs. On December 23, 2024, the national oil company reduced the retail price of petrol at its outlets to N925 per...

    No explosion at Warri refinery, routine maintenance in progress – NNPC

    The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.) has clarified that there was no explosion at the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC), Delta. Mr...
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    Opinion

    Tributes: Olootu Ogooluwa Bankole left behind a legacy of excellence — Amb Isola

    Nigeria's immediate past High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola has bemoaned the passage of Olootu Abel Ogooluwa Bankole, a prominent industrialist and businessman, who died on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at the age of 77. In a statement personally signed by...

    Why 53.9% of Nigerian children are multi-dimensionally poor — Report

      The Situation Analysis (SitAn) of Children in Nigeria Report has identified some of the reasons why 53.9 per cent of children in the country are multi-dimensionally poor. The report, launched during the 2024 World...

    Military clarifies Sokoto jet bombardment reports, days targets were terrorist-linked

    The Joint Task Force North West Operation Fansan Yamma has addressed recent reports of a military fighter jet allegedly bombing civilian structures in two villages of Silame Local Government Area, Sokoto State. According to...

    Atiku preaches love, unity at Christmas

        Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has implored Nigerians to embrace a life of love and unity, drawing inspiration from the joyous spirit of the Christmas season. Abubakar made the call in a Christmas message personally signed by...