The Senate Committee on Power has dismissed a petition against a commissioner-nominee of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr Yusuf Ali (North Central) on grounds of lack of merit.

Oyo Governor Seyi Makinde has approved the appointment of Senator Lekan Balogun as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland. The approval follows a recommendation to that effect by the Olubadan-in-Council communicated to the Governor.

Police operatives have arrested suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) DCP Abba Kyari, The Nation can report. He was arrested with four others on Monday over alleged illicit drug links.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has chronicled how it nabbed suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari in a drug deal. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, narrated that Kyari belonged to a drug cartel that operates the […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared the suspended head of the Intelligence Response Team, IRT, DCP Abba Kyari wanted for alleged drug trafficking.

The quest for a credible Consensus candidate for Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has thrown up unlikely names to forcefully alter earlier calculations ahead of the February 26 National Convention of the party in Abuja.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has declared a “comprehensive and total” strike. The strike was declared at a press conference addressed by the President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, on Monday. He said the strike, which takes effect from Monday, February 14, 2022, would last for an […]

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has set aside March 23 and 24 for arguments of applications by parties in the N50 billion suit filed against the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC. A couple and employees of Shell, Emeka and Stella Okoli, filed the suit […]

The decomposed body of a 70-year-old Italian woman was found sitting at her table — more than two years after she died, police said.

The Supreme Court has declared as unlawful and unconstitutional the Executive Order 10 (EO10) issued by President Muhammadu Buhari on the funding of State Judiciary and Legislature.

The Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that the Union has started mobilization of its members to down tools if the Federal Government fails to sign and implement the renegotiated 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement.

Ahead of the 2023 presidential race, the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, former governor of Lagos State and All Progressives Congress, APC presidential aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed 31-year-old Borno youth, Comrade Muhammad Mahmud as his National Media Coordinator. Mahmud while addressing […]

Ahead of the 2023 general election, President Muhammadu Buhari has warned diplomats serving in the country to keep their focus on diplomatic assignments and steer clear of Nigeria’s local politics. The President spoke yesterday while presenting Letters of Credence to four foreign diplomats at the Presidential Villa in […]

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Friday, lamented that the issues of infrastructure deficits and challenges of metering gap have compounded its woe of addressing the problems in the power sector.

A physically challenged person, Nurudeen Wasiu on Friday vowed to challenge the governor of Oyo State at the law court, Engr. Seyi Makinde, if he fails to re-contest the 2023 governorship election in the state. Wasiu in a statement he personally signed in Ibadan, the state capital on […]