Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, May 8, 2025, adjourned till June 11, 2025 “for a report on settlement and/or arraignment” of the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko and others over an alleged N12.3bn fraud brought against them by the...
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In his first mass as new Pope on Friday, Leo XIV warned that losing one’s faith can have “dramatic side effects.” These include finding that “the meaning of life is lost, mercy is forgotten, human dignity is violated in the most dramatic ways “The crisis of the family and...
Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, on Friday presided over the first large mass following his election. The new pontiff was joined by cardinals in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, a day after he was chosen on Thursday as the successor to pope Francis. The U.S.-born cleric,...
The Abuja Metropolitan Management Council of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has given its Development Control Department 48 hours to demolish more than 10 duplexes built on a green area. The Coordinator, Mr Felix Obuah, gave the order in Abuja on Thursday, during a joint inspection of illegal...
Zamfara State Government returned 3,000 rustled animals recovered by security forces to their rightful owners in the state in 15 months. The Chairman of the Committee on the Verification of Recovered Rustled Animals, Sheikh Sa’idu Maikwano, made this known at a meeting with the Secretary to the State Government...
ustice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, the Chief Justice of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), discharged 30 inmates awaiting trial across the two custodial centres in Keffi local government area of Nasarawa state. Baba-Yusuf discharged the inmates during a visit to the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Keffi on Thursday. The News Agency...
President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate seeking the confirmation of the appointments of 19 persons as Chairman, Managing Director/CEO and Members of the Board of the North-Central Development Commission (NCDC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, read Tinubu’s letter during...
The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on Thursday, urged Peter Obi, the former Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to put his house in order and not make unnecessary comments on past leaders of the country. Akpabio stated this during a valedictory session held in honour of...
MTN Nigeria says it invested N3.5 billion on corporate social investment in 2024. Chief Sustainability Officer, MTN Nigeria, Tobechukwu Okigbo, disclosed this during the company’s Facts Behind the Sustainability Report presentation at the Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX), on Thursday, in Lagos. Okigbo said, “In 2024, we invested N3.5 billion...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has sent its congratulatory message to the Roman Catholic Church on the election of Pope Leo XIV. CAN President Archbishop Daniel Okoh, in a statement on Friday, said that this significant milestone brings joy to Catholics worldwide, and CAN joins in celebrating this...
President Bola Tinubu has commended the Nigerian Army for their efforts in providing security along the Illela–Sokoto–Badagry Super highway project. The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru, made this known during an operational visit to troops stationed at the Forward Operations Base Laager in Kebbi. This is contained in a...
A Chief Lecturer, Department of Communication and Language Arts, Yaba College of Technology (YabaTech), Dr Omobayo Raheem, has called on individuals, institutions and industries to key into using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance Nigeria. Raheem made the call on Thursday evening while delivering Yabatech’s 17th Inaugural Lecture Series 2025,...
U.S. bishops on Thursday hailed the election of former Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and the first pope born in the U.S.A. Cardinals elected the newly titled Leo to the supreme pontificate with white smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel signaling the closing of...
The new Pope’s choice of name signals he will continue the work of his predecessor, “institutionalising” Francis’s reforms, experts have said. Pope Leo XIV, the first American head of the Catholic Church, emerged on to the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in front of a packed St Peter’s Square...
Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, of the United States has been elected leader of the Catholic Church and will be called Pope Leo XIV. The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics appeared on the balcony overlooking St Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Thursday. He was elected by the...
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV will celebrate his first major Mass as the head of the Catholic Church on Friday in the Sistine Chapel, according to the Vatican. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told reporters the Pope will also appear on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the midday...
The Justice Development Peace Commission (JDPC) of the Catholic Church, on Thursday, hailed the emergence of Pope Leo XIV as successor to late Pope Francis and distanced the election process from the U.S. President Donald Trump or any external influence. The JDPC Badagry Deanery Executives who spoke with the...
U.S. President Donald Trump has congratulated Robert Prevost, a Cardinal from Chicago for being selected as the pope. Pope Leo XIV was selected on Thursday as the 267th Pope in the history ọf the Catholic Church. “Prevost will be known as Pope Leo XIV. “It is such an honour...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- President Bola Tinubu has offered his warmest congratulations to His Holiness Leo XIV on his election as the Bishop of Rome and the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. The President in a statement on Thursday by his media aide Bayo Onanuga, felicitated The...
President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, affirmed his commitment to the development of the South-East, promising to integrate Anambra and the entire region into the Federal Government’s economic development plan. Tinubu made the pledge when he paid a one-day working visit to the state to inaugurate projects completed by Gov....