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On Thursday the youngest African president, Faye Bassirou of Senegal arrived at the presidential Villa in FCT Abuja to meet with President Bola Tinubu. Faye is visiting Nigeria for the first time since his emerging President and with excitement beaming, the administration of President Tinubu believes the aspirations of youths in Africa will […]
The controversial death penalty law passed by the Red Chamber for drug traffickers following the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act Amendment Bill of 2024 has brought out another side of the Chief Whip of the Senate. In a TV interview granted by Senator Ali Ndume, he was asked why a strong punishment for […]
A dead end was reached between the Organized Labour, Federal Government and the Organized Private Sector over the payment of a new minimum wage. NLC and TUC walked out of the negotiations after the OPS proposed 54 thousand naira and 48 thousand naira were proposed by the Federal government. The umbrella of the […]
I was just an Innocent ND 1 student going to school when I was kidnapped along Police Staff College Road around 9 am yesterday. This was the statement of 17-year-old Basil Benjamin who was arrested for trying to bomb a commercial bank in Jos, Plateau state. Parading the suspect at the Police Command […]
Speaker of the House of Assembly in Niger State, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, has expressed his displeasure and withdrawal from the 100 orphan girls in Mariga LGA, whose marriages were scheduled for May 24. Expressing his displeasure towards how the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, would have gotten across to him first but she […]
The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, has threatened to go on an indefinite strike if the federal government refuses to reintroduce the governing councils of universities across the country that were earlier dissolved. In May last year, the government had put a hold on the governing council, the board […]
A standing order was given by the speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly that 100 orphanage girls who lost their parents to bandits attack at Mariga LGA should be set for marriages. Speaker of the House, Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, said it was a way of alleviating the suffering of these young girls […]
Late Thursday night bandits invaded a higher institution of learning in Kogi State kidnapping nine students. According to an eyewitness report, at about 9:00 pm on Thursday why students of the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTEC), Osara in Okene, were studying for their fort-coming exams when a group of bandits laid siege […]
It looks like another issue is sprouting up in the Ewu Kingdom a few days after the withdrawal of the Nigerian Army from the Okuama community. The residents of Akugbene in the Bomadi LGA sharing a boundary with Okuama and other communities around the riverine area, claimed that the returnees from Okuama attacked […]
A skit maker, Young C, who told his online followers he would be engaging in a stunt of being buried alive for 24 hours, has finally been exhumed yesterday. The content creator whose Tiktok handle has been permanently banned, was buried on Wednesday and was life-streaming the event also on his YouTube channel. […]
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