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Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has formally declared his intention to contest for president in 2023 on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress. He made the declaration on Wednesday in Abuja. Fayemi promised to ensure youth empowerment ...

Abidemi Rufai, a former aide of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state has pleaded guilty to a series of fraud cases against him in federal court in Tacoma, Washington state, prosecutors said. Rufai, 45, who gave his home address as ...

The Nigerian army has recounted how Sergeant A. M. Linus and his military wife were killed and beheaded by gunmen in Imo State while on their way to formalise their traditional marriage. According to army spokesperson, Brigadier-General Onyema Nwachukwu the ...

A former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun has visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta. The visit took place on Sunday but news is only just flying out. Adeosun was accompanied by Adeseye Senfuye, former accountant-general of Ogun state, and ...

Kautukari, a community in Chibok LGA of Borno state, was yesterday under attack by suspected fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP). A resident told TheCable that the insurgents invaded the community around 6pm on Tuesday and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) held a night meeting yesterday. The meeting held at the residence of the president in Abuja. It isn’t yet clear what the subject of the meeting ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra has warned Apostle Johnson Suleman over what it described as “unprovoked verbal attack and ranting” against the group. The group said it was puzzling that a man of God would abandon his calling and resort ...

The Shalom Community Orphanage Home located at Ikpa Town in the Esit-Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State has appealed to government agencies and public spirited organisations to come to its aid, saying the children are starving. The 14 ...

Leke, son of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has paid a tribute to mark the first anniversary of the death of his elder brother, Dare. Taking to his Instagram status, Leke uploaded ...

Adams Oshiomhole, the former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), will declare his presidential bid today. This is according to his media aide, Victor Oshioke, who says his principal will announce his intention to contest the presidency on ...

  A woman pronounced dead after a car crash shocked mourners at her funeral by banging on the coffin and showing signs of life. Rosa Isabel Cespedes Callaca interrupted her own funeral with stunned family members hearing a noise from ...

Some hoodlums suspected to be herdsmen have killed a farmer, Musa Monsuro, in the Ibarapa Central Local Government Area of Oyo State. Monsuro was reportedly slaughtered on his cashew farm at Araromi village, Igboora, around 5pm on Monday. While the ...

Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he asked for a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to stop the war in Ukraine but had not received a reply. The pope also told ...

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres landed in Nigeria on Tuesday. Guterres visited the Borno capital, Maiduguri, where he met Boko Haram victims and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The chief consoled them and expressed UN’s commitment to ensure their welfare ...

Two leading All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirants, Bola Tinubu and Rotimi Amaechi met in Lagos on Tuesday. According to Tinubu’s spokesman, Tunde Rahman, both presidential aspirants met at the private wing of the airport in Ikeja. In a tweet, ...

Hillary Gardee, the daughter of former EFF secretary-general and attorney Godrich Gardee, has been found dead. The body of the 28-year-old woman was found abandoned outside Mbombela in Mpumalanga after she went missing last week. In a statement released by ...

Fire has destroyed one of the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Zamfara State. The affected office is in Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of the state. Locals said the fire started at about 9pm and razed ...

The Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has disowned a certain Pastor Ade Abraham for allegedly asking his church members to pay him a fee of N310,000 to get flight tickets to heaven. The Kaduna-based Pastor ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has given more insight into how arrested drug baron, Afam Ukatu, imported drugs into Nigeria. The agency, in a statement by its spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Tuesday, said Mr Ukatu, who has links ...

The body of a National Youth Service Corps member has been evacuated from the collapsed three-storey building at 32, Ibadan Street, Ebute Metta, Lagos. The body was released to the family for burial amidst weeping and wailing. The corps member ...

  The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Abiodun Alabi, has met with two factional transport leaders in the state – Musiliu Akinsanya popularly called MC Oluomo; and Azeez Abiola, aka Istijabah. The meeting was confirmed in a statement issued ...

    At least 50 passengers were rescued when fire gutted the tyres of an aircraft operated by Dana Airlines Limited in Port Harcourt. The incident occurred on Monday evening at the Port Harcourt airport, Punch correspondent learnt. It was ...

Terrorists who attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train have released Sadik, the son of elder statesman and Northern Elders Forum (NEF) convener, Professor Ango Abdullahi. A family member of the abducted train passengers confirmed that Sadik Ango Abdullahi was released on Friday ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday tweeted for the first time since Nigeria lifted the ban on Twitter. The Nigerian Government had, in June 2020, imposed a ban on Twitter. The ban followed Twitter’s decision to delete tweets from Buhari. The ...

President Buhari joined others for the Eid Al-Fitr prayers this morning at Mambila Barracks, Abuja. After the payers, the President and his wife, Aisha Buhari hosted their children. Grandchildren, relatives and aides. More photos below…