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Alleged Forged Voter Card: APC, Okpebholo No Longer In Edo Guber Race, Says PDP

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate in the September 21 Edo State governorship election, Senator Monday Okpebholo, have forfeited...

Oba Olakulehin Crowned 43rd Olubadan

*Makinde Presents Staff Of Office, Tinubu Congratulates New Monarch OBA Owolabi Akinloye Olakulehin was on Friday, July 12, crowned as the 43rd Olubadan of Ibadanland. The 89-year-old...

S’Court Judgment On Local Council Autonomy A Relief For Governors- NGF

STATE governors in the country, under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), has welcomed the ruling of the Supreme Court reaffirming the autonomy to local...

School Building Collapse: Plateau Govt Confirms 22 Dead, 132 Injured

*Tinubu Sympathises With Victims  THE Plateau State Government has confirmed 22 dead and 132 injured persons in the collapsed school building in Jos, the state capital. Commissioner for Information,...

LASTMA Denies Officials’ Involvement In Keke Rider’s Suicide

THE Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has denied the involvement of its officials in any way with the death of a young man suspected...

Portable Engages In Street Fight In Lagos Over ‘Stolen Phone’

HE is a man almost always in the news for the wrong reasons. This time around, controversial Nigerian musician, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable,...

Tricycle Rider Hangs Self Over Seized Means Of Livelihood

A RIDER of commercial tricycle, otherwise known as Keke Marwa, in Lagos has committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree following his inability to...

Wole Soyinka At 90: Tinubu Renames National Theatre After Nobel Laureate

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has renamed the National Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos State, as Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts. The President disclosed this in a...

Scores Of Students Trapped As Two-Storey School Building Collapses In Jos

A TWO-STOREY school building at Saint Academy, Jos, the Plateau State capital, collapsed on Friday, July 12, trapping scores of students. The building, housing classrooms and offices, collapsed while...

Anxiety As Al-Qaeda, IS, Boko Haram Terrorists Escape In Niger Republic Jailbreak

THERE is palpable apprehension in Niger Republic, neighbouring countries and the entire Sahel region following a massive prison break at the high-security Koutoukale Prison, in the...

Council Poll: Police Restrict Movement In Delta, Warn Troublemakers

THE Delta State Police Command has announced the restriction of movement during the local governments election in Delta State slated for Saturday, July 13, 2024. The Commissioner...

Police Arrest Couple Attempting To Sell Son To Enable Father Travel Abroad

THE Lagos State Police Command said ii has arrested a couple (name withheld) over an alleged attempt to sell their two-year-old son to enable them...

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