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Scores of terrorists in Kaduna and Niger States are currently on the run following offensive operation carried out by officers of the Nigerian Air Force. The bombardment of terrorists’ enclaves is coming on the heels of a fresh marching order given to the Service Chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Chief of Air Staff, Air […]

The Nigeria Police Force has advised all politicians to eschew violence and caution their supporters against threatening voices of dissent and opposition in the run-up to the 2023 general elections. The police said any threat to life was a criminal offence, adding that the Electoral Act is also clear on the appropriate punishment prescribed for […]

Former Governors of Plateau and Taraba states, Senator Joshua Dariye, and Jolly Nyame, have been released from Kuje correctional facility in Abuja. This is coming three months after their pardon by the Council of State led by the President, Muhammadu Buhari, on April 14, 2022. Also released were three other inmates from Suleja Custodial Centre […]

Over 160 persons, mainly youths of northern extraction, have again been apprehended by men of the Ondo State Security Network Agency, the Amotekun. The men were hiding in two trucks, under some cows and motorcycles conveying them from the northern part of Nigeria. The invaders, this time around 168, are mainly middle-aged men. Some charms […]

Oyo State government has commiserated with traders that lost their properties as an early morning fire outbreak destroyed shops and goods worth millions of naira at the popular Bola Ige International Market, new Gbagi Ibadan on Monday. The fire outbreak which razed six (6) shops full of different types of fabrics did not claim any […]

Oyo state Government today, kick started Operation Zero potholes initiative, as the State Road Maintenance Agency has begun rehabilitation of Roads and distilling of drainage across Ibadan metropolis and its environs. The Chairman Oyo State Road Maintenance Agency, Ogunlade Busoye Soladoye who visited roads earmarked for rehabilitation revealed that the agency will live up to […]

The Federal High Court Abuja has fixed September 7, for the hearing of a legal suit seeking the disqualification of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), from contesting the 2023 elections for allegedly presenting the forged certificate. Justice Ahmed Mohammed fixed the hearing, just as it granted an ex-parte order […]

The 14th Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has lamented the current state of the nation, saying Nigeria will not be where it is if public office holders take their job seriously. Sanusi, who spoke in Lagos on Sunday at a stage play titled “Emir Sanusi: Truth in Time”, charged politicians to be accountable to […]

Amid biting inflation and rising hunger in the country, some personnel of the Nigerian Army, Navy, and Air Force, on Tuesday night, complained about the delay by the federal government in paying their July salaries. The Abuja-based soldiers who spoke on the condition of anonymity said they and their colleagues are unhappy with the Major […]

The Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended the train services on the Lagos, Abuja, and Ajaokuta routes over safety concerns. The Managing Director of the NRC Fidet Okhiria confirmed this to newsmen today. He said this followed a report of an attempted kidnapping of passengers that left the Ajaokuta Station by road on their way […]