Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, has said his recent visit to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, was not to influence the ongoing Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in the state, but to seek collaboration between Nasarawa and the FCT. He …

UNIJOS VC, Professor Ishaya Tanko Electricity returns after three months blackout Reprieve may have come for protesting students of the University of Jos as its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Tanko Ishaya, on Saturday, announced that the institution has crashed its fees. According to him, the decision to reduce the fees followed …

Governor Ademola Adeleke Spokesperson to the Osun State Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed has confirmed reported aircraft incident involving Governor Ademola Adeleke. The media aide, on Sunday, noted that there are strong indications that the two aircraft engines were tampered with before boarding. Reacting to news reports on the incident, the …

Nigerian singer Teniola Apata, aka Teni Makaniki, has said the assassination of her father, the late Brig. Gen. Simeon Apata (retd.) in her presence greatly affected her. Speaking in an interview with media personality Taymesan, Teni disclosed that she was two years old when gunmen stormed their Lagos home and …

Senegalese-American singer Akon has regretted not signing Nigerian indigenous rapper, Olamide Adedeji, simply known as Olamide or Baddo, some years ago. He said the YBNL boss was his favourite artiste back then. In a Skype interview with OAP, Oladotun Ojuolape Kayode, aka Do2Tun, of Cool FM, Lagos, Akon said he …

A plane that crashed while trying to land in stormy weather in the Brazilian Amazon has led to the killing of all the fourteen persons on board. Officials said the small plane’s pilot was approaching the remote town in heavy rain, with low visibility, and appeared to inadvertently start landing …

President Bola Tinubu has been sued over his failure to stop eight of his ministers, such as Nyesom Wike and David Umahi from collecting retirement benefits as governors. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) filed the lawsuit and joined five other ministers as defendants. They are Badaru Abubakar, Bello Matawalle, …

Leading experts in Nigeria’s health sector have said it would be impossible to produce sufficient personnel to effectively meet the country’s increasing healthcare needs with the current burden of brain drain. They held that it would take Nigeria 20 years, at the minimum, to produce 400,000 health workers needed to …

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has said the electoral victory of President Bola Tinubu was aided by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, who parted ways with his erstwhile colleague, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar. The Nobel Laureate said this, according to …

Fresh crisis is currently brewing in the Nigerian senate as a plot to impeach Godswill Akpabio as senate president is currently being hatched. According to a report by The Whistler, the Senators behind the plot are currently meeting in Saudi Arabia to perfect the plan before resumption of plenary. Leading the charge are Senators …