The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has detained a 24-year-old Thai woman for prosecution after she was caught with prohibited substances at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos. NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a press release on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that the…
Paramount Global, one of the largest U.S. media and entertainment corporations, agreed on Tuesday to pay 16 million dollars to settle a lawsuit with U.S. President Donald Trump. According to U.S. media reporting the case, Trump sued CBS News, a subsidiary company of Paramount, in a district court in Texas in last October. He alleged…
Gov Abba Yusuf of Kano State has renamed two key institutions in the state in honour of its 22 athletes who died in a motor accident while returning from the National Sports Festival in May. Yusuf made the announcement on Sunday in Kano, in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mustapha Muhammed. It…
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has registered 420,674 candidates for the 2025/2026 JAMB examinations as at Monday afternoon. The JAMB registrar, Emeritus Professor Is-haq Oloyede disclosed this yesterday after his visits to some Computer Based Test Centres (CBT) in Ilorin, Kwara State. Oloyede disclosed that 124,632 candidates have entered for the mock JAMB…
President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Tokyo, Japan, to participate in the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9). Presidential spokesperson, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, said the President’s aircraft touched down at the Haneda International Airport at 12:50 a.m. local time on Tuesday. Tinubu was received at the Presidential Wing of the airport by Amb….
Troops of the Joint Task Force, Tundun Wada, have arrested a 55-year-old suspected notorious kidnapper, during a security operation in Sumana village, Tundun Wada Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano state. This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen by Capt. Babatunde Zubairu, Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 3 Brigade, of Kano on Tuesday….
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has urged newly deployed members of Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to harness the economic opportunities within the state, particularly in agriculture and community development. Addressing the 2025 Batch B Stream II corps members at the Magaji Dan Yamusa Orientation Camp in Keffi on Tuesday, the governor—represented by…
Chief Bisi Akande, the pioneer National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Osun State, believes Nigeria’s long history of state creation has eroded the foundation of federalism and fuelled inefficiency. At the Southwest Stakeholders’ Dialogue organised by Afenifere, the DAWN Commission and the region’s governors on Wednesday, Akande traced the…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, has expressed profound sorrow over the deaths of 22 athletes from Kano state on Saturday along the Zaria-Kano Expressway. The athletes, who were part of the Kano state contingent at the just-concluded Nigerian National Sports Festival held in Ogun State, were returning from the event…
A leading Nigerian civil society group has called on President Bola Tinubu to establish a high-level inquiry into the annulment of the historic 1993 presidential elections and to take concrete steps to strengthen electoral integrity and democratic freedoms. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) made the appeal in a letter dated 14 June 2025,…
