President Bola Tinubu has received new envoys from the European Union (EU), republic of Finland and People’s republic of Algeria. The new envoys respectively, were at the state house to present letters recalling their predecessors and their letters of credence to the president. Mr Gautier Mignot Is the new...
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By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – In response to the directive of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, to go after the fleeing suspects in connection to the kidnap of the wife of Retired Assistant-Inspector General, AIG Hakeem Odumosu, Mrs Odumosu, the operatives of the Lagos State CP...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has described the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, as a friend who is unreliable and a fairweather friend. Governor Mohammed, who also described him as a transactional politician who bites the hand that feeds him,...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed board chairpersons for 42 federal organisations and a secretary to the board of the Civil Defence, Immigration, and Prisons Services. He also appointed a new managing director for the Nigerian Railway Corporation and a director-general for the National...
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to declassify documents related to the assassinations of former president John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King (Jr). Trump instructed the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to present a...
A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday from implementing the Republican president’s executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” Seattle-based U.S. District Judge John Coughenour issued a temporary restraining order at the urging of four Democratic-led states...
U.S. President Donald Trump said his conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week was friendly and thought he could reach a trade deal with China. The leaders of the world’s two biggest economies discussed TikTok, trade, and Taiwan among other issues in a phone call before Trump took...
Rivers State Police Command has arrested two suspected fake pastors found in possession of fetish items in the Rumuduru community of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. The command’s spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, made this known in a statement on Friday in Port Harcourt. She said the suspects were handed over...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have joined the government and people of Plateau in mourning the former FCT Minister, Lt-Gen. Jeremiah Timbut Useni, who died on Thursday at 81. The President extended his condolences to the family,...
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By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has charged the constables recently recruited into the Nigeria Police Force, to exhibit professionalism in the discharge of their duties warning them to shun acts of intimidation, harassment and perversion of justice. He gave the charge...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The FCT Police Command, under the Anti-Narcotics Unit, has successfully executed a series of coordinated raids targeting identified hotspots across the FCT. These locations were known to be used by criminal elements for the sale and consumption of illicit drugs and substances. The areas...
…Says U.S withdrawal creates $1.2bn annual budget shortfall for WHO By TOM CHIAHEMEN – The withdrawing of the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), has been described as a major setback for Health Security and a Safer World. Group CEO of the Nairobi-based Amref Health Africa, Dr Githinji Gitahi, who made the assertion in a position statement on Friday, noted...
US President Donald Trump has said his administration would appeal a federal judge’s ruling that temporarily blocks his attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. “Obviously we will appeal it,” Trump told reporters on Thursday in the Oval Office when asked about the ruling by Washington state District Judge John Coughenour,...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos A former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and retired military officer, Lt. General Jeremiah Timbut Useni, has passed away. Useni, aged 82, died on Thursday, January 23, 2025, following a protracted illness. The announcement of his passing was made on Thursday night by...
The Bukuma community in Rivers has decried the alleged refusal of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporations Limited’s (NNPCL) to implement a 2021 court judgement on cluster issue. The Paramount Ruler of Bukuma, King Precious Elekima, made this known during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Wife Melania Trump have celebrated their 20 years of marriage with heartfelt messages for each other. It is a double celebration this week for the first couple as Trump assumed the Presidency of the United States for the second time on Monday and now...
The Federal Government has a 2027 target for transitioning its examination system to 100 per cent computer-based testing (CBT). Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this during the inauguration of the Committee on Improvement of Quality Examinations in Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday. Alausa said that the committee...
A man (name withheld) on Thursday narrated before an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how a man, Blessing Adetula, allegedly defiled his nine-year-old daughter. Adetula is standing trial on a count charge of sexual assault by penetration. At the resumed hearing, the witness was led in evidence...
The Senate Committee on Capital Market, on Thursday, rejected the 2025 budget proposal of Investments and Securities Tribunal due to errors in the figures and items it presented. After a motion moved by Sen. Seriake Dickson (PDP-Bayelsa) and seconded by Sen. Aliyu Wadada (SDP-Nasarawa), Chairman of the committee, Sen....