President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has condoled with the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Most Reverend Ignatius Kaigama and members of the Kaigama family of Taraba State on the passing of their brother and father, Fidelis Kaigama. Fidelis Kaigama died on June 6, at 84. In a statement by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, President Tinubu described the…
A senior naval officer undergoing a course at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Kaduna State (name withheld), was gruesomely murdered on Saturday, 7 June 2025, near the Kawo flyover bridge while attempting to fix a flat tyre on his vehicle. Military sources said the officer, a senior course student at AFCSC…
Senator Ahmed Wadada Aliyu, representing Nasarawa West, has accused the former governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, of lacking the principal symptom of a staunch politician. The Senate Committee Chairman on Public Accounts said he could not be on the same political platform as Malam El-Rufai. Recalled that El-Rufai abandoned the governing All Progressives…
The national leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has received no fewer than 1,230 former supporters of Hon. Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila back into the NNPP. The defectors, who hail from Albasu and Sumaila Local Government Areas in the Kano South Senatorial District, were…
The University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) has confirmed the death of Godwin Akpakpan, a 300-level student of Computer Science, who was allegedly killed by unidentified security personnel. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that Akpakpan was reportedly apprehended by security operatives during a stop-and-search operation in Port Harcourt. The incident occurred late on April…
Activities for this year’s edition of Ojude Oba festival, sponsored by Globacom, began on Friday night in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, with a superlative entertainment event that had the Commander, Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi, and Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, the king of Fuji music. The event was an outstanding prelude to the big event holding on Sunday…
Alhaji Abdul Samad-Rabiu, Chairman and Founder, BUA Group has urged Britain and its Western allies to deepen partnerships and increase investments in Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Samad-Rabiu said this in an opinion piece published in the Telegraph of London, on Saturday. The philanthropist asserting that President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms…
At least four persons have reportedly been ambushed and killed in the Uwok-Ishe community of Kakkek district of Bassa local government area of Plateau State. Also, another two were critically injured during the incident and were rushed to Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) for medical attention. News gathered that the ambush occurred yesterday around 7…
The federal government has declared Thursday, June 12, 2025, as public holiday to commemorate this year’s democracy day celebration. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, who made the declaration on behalf of the federal government, congratulated Nigerians on this occasion of 26 years of an uninterrupted civil rule. This was contained in a statement signed…
Gov Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has called for greater synergy between his administration and the Nigerian Army in the fight against criminality and insecurity in the state. Soludo made the call during a special Sallah Lunch at the 302 Artillery Military Cantonment in Onitsha. Mr Chris Aburime, Press Secretary to Soludo who disclosed this in…
