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  Britain is set to declare the Russian mercenary Wagner Group to be a terrorist organisation, making it illegal to be a member or to support it, the government said on Wednesday. A draft order due to laid before parliament will allow ...

Traditional rulers in Bodo city, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, have scampered for safety, following the reports that their names were in a wanted list compiled by cultists terrorising the area. Bodo City has been at the mercy ...

  The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, on Wednesday, upheld the election of President Bola Tinubu as the winner of the February 25 presidential election. The five-man panel of the Tribunal was led by Justice Haruna Tsammani. This development followed petitions ...

  The Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday nullified the victory of Sen. Abubakar Ohere as the winner of the Kogi Central Senatorial election. The court further declared Natasha Akpoti- Uduagan as the actual winner of the February Senatorial election ...

  The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has raised the cost of electricity meters payable through the meter assets programme, MAP. The Commission, in an order issued on Tuesday, increased the price of single phase meters by N23,313.47 or 39.74 ...

  Hours into the proceedings, many chieftains of the APC who were in the courtroom in solidarity with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Vice, Kashim Shettima, were captured on camera ”sleeping”. National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ...

  Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has directed that all pregnant women registered in government hospitals and health centers across the state are to enjoy free antenatal and delivery services. Soludo gave the directivy at Nnobi General Hospital in ...

The National/ State House of Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Kano on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, of the APC, challenging the victory of Tijjani Abdulkadir Jobe of NNPP for Rimin Gado/Dawakin Tofa/ Tofa/ Federal House ...

  The Federal Government on Tuesday said President Bola Tinubu inherited a battered economy but changed the narrative within his 100 days in office. While describing the fuel subsidy removal as “a Sword of Damocles that hung over Nigeria for decades”, the ...

  US First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for Covid-19 and was experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said. The 72-year-old, who is vaccinated and has received boosters, will stay at home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where she and President Joe Biden spent ...

  The Kogi East Senatorial Election Tribunal on Tuesday sacked the senator representing the district, Jibrin Isah, on the ground that elections were cancelled in 94 polling units. The tribunal also ordered Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a ...

  Tinubu’s plan to get refineries working will fail – Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said he tried to get Nigeria’s oil refineries working but was not successful and suggests President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s plan to do the same will not work. ...

  The police in Uganda have detained a 28-year-old man as he planned to enter a church in the capital city Kampala with an explosive device to be used in an attack on Sunday. “We got information that one terrorist ...

A gender reveal party turned deadly after a small plane nosedived and killed the pilot in front of cheering guests – who were oblivious to the tragedy that unfolded above their heads. The happy couple were celebrating their pregnancy with ...

  In less than three months after her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, left power, former First Lady Aisha Buhari has amplified a video of a woman berating Nigerian hospitals and doctors for “ruining lives.” Mrs Buhari, in her Facebook story ...

  The Department of State Services (DSS) said it has uncovered plans by some persons in parts of the country to stage violent protests. Public Relations Officer, DSS National Headquarters, Dr Peter Afunanya, in a statement on Monday said those ...

  The Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line System has begun its long-awaited commercial operations. The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, became the first passenger to ride on the train during its inaugural ride as operations began on Monday. ...

  Tribunal to deliver judgement on Obi, Atiku’s petitions against Tinubu on Wednesday The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja has fixed Wednesday, September 6, 2023, to deliver judgment on petitions challenging the electoral victory of President Bola Tinubu in ...

  The leader of the military junta which ousted Gabon’s President Ali Bongo will be sworn in today as interim President. General Brice Oligui Nguema, according to Reuter, is expected to address the nation for the first time as interim ...

  A raging fire, on Sunday evening, engulfed the auditorium and three offices of The Word Assembly Church in Ilorin, Kwara State. The fire which reportedly started in the evening after the Sunday Service consumed the main auditorium and three of ...

  Labour Party has rejected the result of the Edo State Local Government Election held on Saturday as announced by the State Independent Electoral Commission The LP condemned the election as conducted by the Edo SIEC, describing it as another ...

  There will be never be a military coup in Nigeria from now till eternity – Primate Ayodele assures FG The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has assured the Federal Government and state Governor’s that THERE WON’T EVER ...

  The Devil will not waste time on those doing BBL, he has already captured them – MFM’s Olukoya THE General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, MFM, Daniel Olukoya has said the devil will not waste his time on ...

  President Bola Tinubu has expressed hope that members of his recently inaugurated cabinet are capable of delivering on the mandate of helping him to rebuild the Nigerian economy, vowing to remove anyone of them who fails, because he is after ...

  In a scathing attack that would certainly reopen healing wounds between the pair, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has gone on the offensive describing his erstwhile boss, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as one ...