Sports Minister, Chief Sunday Dare, declared on Friday that the 21st National Sports Festival tagged Delta 2022 will go ahead as scheduled. A joint technical meeting involving the Main Organising Committee (MOC), the Local Organising Committee (LOC) and other stakeholders of the event took place in Asaba after the inspection …

In furtherance of its commitment to improve the nation’s transportation infrastructure, restore its road network as a means to create employment and boost the economy, while responding to the aftermath of the recent flooding in the Niger Delta, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of N260.5B as …

VP Yemi Osinbajo Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated the Virginia Tech. Nigerian Bowen Equatorial Aeronomy Radar (VT-NigerBEAR) at Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State. Performing the inauguration on Friday at the institution’s premises, Osinbajo said it was the first and currently the only deployment of an equatorial-low-latitude SuperDARN in the …

Sasore The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday arraigned Olasupo Shasore, former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Lagos State, on 14-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N159,700,000.00 and $60,000. Sasore was arraigned alongside his company, Middlesex Investment Ltd, before Justice I.E. Ekwo of the …

Abia Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu The Nigeria Labour Congress, has accused the Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, of owing the state government workers 117 months of salary arrears in different agencies and institutions and 30 months of pension benefits to pensioners in the state. According to the NLC, the state …

Dana Air has announced that it will resume flight operations from November 9, 2022. The airline disclosed this in a statement on Friday. The development comes four months after the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) suspended Dana Air for multiple regulatory infractions. The authority said it suspended the operating licences …

Hushpuppi Nigerian fraudster, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi has been sentenced to 11 years imprisonment in the United State for fraud. The popular Instagram celebrity was jailed on Friday by the United States Central District Court in California for fraud and money laundering. The Nigerian fraudster was arrested in …

Senator Ike Ekweremadu Woes of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu who is currently battling charges related to organ trafficking in the United Kingdom deepened on Friday as a court in Abuja ordered an interim forfeiture of 40 landed property allegedly belonging to him. Justice Inyang Ekwo of Federal High …

Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Friday protested against the continuous detention of their leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in Aba, Abia State by Federal Government after an Appeal court in Abuja acquitted him of all charges. The Court of Appeal had on October 13 ordered the IPOB …

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State, has said Yahaya Bello, the state governor, shares the blame for the horrendous attack on Owo Catholic Church in Ondo State, and Kuje Prison break. Natasha who was responding to an allegation of sponsoring …