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  President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday travel to Qatar for the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Buhari’s trip to Doha, the capital, follows an invitation by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad ...

  Dozens including women are feared dead following an explosion from a crude oil tapping point in Rumuekpe commumity in Emuoha Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 2am on Friday when ...

  A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, convicted and sentenced a former accountant, Pensions Account, Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, Garba Abdullahi Tahir, to 21 years imprisonment for stealing N26.1 million meant for ...

  The Labour Party has picked Mr Kelvin Chukwu, the younger brother of the slain senatorial candidate for Enugu East senatorial zone, Oyibo Chukwu, for the March 11 senatorial election for the zone. Oyibo Chukwu was assassinated on Wednesday, February ...

  Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has backed the Supreme Court judgement extending the validity of old N200, N500, and N1,000 notes till December 31, 2023. Taunting the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele, Wike said he ...

  A spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Campaign Council, PCC, Senator Dino Melaye, has declared that the victory of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu is temporary and would soon be upturned. In a video broadcast posted on his verified ...

  The Court of Appeal Abuja has granted the request of the candidates of Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, respectively, to have access to all the sensitive materials the Independent National ...

  French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated Thursday that France harboured no desire to return to past policies of interfering in Africa after he began a four-nation tour of the continent. “The age of Francafrique is well over,” Macron said in ...

  The Social Democratic Party has accepted the result of the Saturday presidential election result as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission. SDP national chairman Shehu Gabam stated this at a news conference on the outcome of the presidential ...

  The Nigeria Labour Congress says the Labour Party belongs to it and plans to meet elected party candidates to discuss its programmes. The NLC said it would continue to be involved in politics to bring matters surrounding the welfare ...

  A man left with life-changing injuries after being crushed by a horse while driving was only recognisable to family via his nose. Ian Tilston was driving on the M56 from his home in Hawarden to Nantwich, Cheshire, when his ...

  Some members of the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have attributed the victory of APC’s candidate, Bola Tinubu, in Rivers State to the intervention of Governor Nyesom Wike of the state. According to Vanguard, members ...

  In the dead of night, two men fired shots at a closed supermarket belonging to the family of Lionel Messi’s wife, before leaving a threatening message on the ground aimed at the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner. “Messi, we’re waiting ...

  Former Ghanaian president John Mahama on Thursday launched a campaign to run again as a candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 elections, saying his experience could help salvage the economy. Despite being defeated in ...

  Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party for the 2023 presidential election has urged Nigerian youths not to leave the country in search of greener pastures. Daily Post reports that shortly after Bola Tinubu was declared winner ...

  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the just-concluded presidential election, Atiku Abubakar has said the journey to become Nigeria’s president almost cost his life. The former vice president who spoke during a press conference in ...

  A mobile police sergeant on Thursday morning killed his suspected woman friend and later shot himself dead in school premises in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. The incident, which happened early in the morning near the gate of a ...

  A former military governor of Ondo State, Bode George has described last Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly election as shambolic. The former chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, said that the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, ...

  Peter Obi, the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, had a post-election press conference with the media on Thursday, 2nd March 2023. This was the first speech by Peter Obi since Saturday’s election and Wednesday’s announcement ...

  The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has congratulated the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu, and his wife, Remi on their victory at the February 25 presidential poll. In a statement on Wednesday, the First Lady expressed confidence that Tinubu will ...

  Justice Okon Okon of Akwa Ibom State High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced one Anwana Peter Essien, a prophet to 21 years in prison for raping his 10-year-old stepdaughter The convict, a prophet with the Restoration Bible Church, Itiam Street, ...

  Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and also quit partisan politics. This comes a day after PDP lost the presidential election to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Fayose announced his ...

  Justice Babajide Aladejana of Ekiti State High Court has been reinstated to office after 16 years of suspension by the National Judicial Council. Aladejana was suspended from office in 2006 with the state’s former Chief Judge, Justice Kayode Bamisile, ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has joined leaders and members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in celebrating the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on his 81st birthday. In a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, on ...

  Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers will on Friday join his Oyo State counterpart, Seyi Makinde, to inaugurate the completed Ibadan Airport Road project and the Aviation Fuel Tank Depot within the Airport. Dr Wasiu Olatunbosun, the State Commissioner for ...