News

Tawa Williams Tawa Williams, the project consultant of the Ilesa Water Project, has alleged that the Osun State House of Assembly members demanded $5million as bribe. Ademola Adeleke, the state governor governor, earlier directed the immediate suspension of Williams over alleged questionable handling of $106million dollar loan for the project. …

Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has promised to organise what would be known as the freest and fairest election in Africa, in Nigeria in 2023. Festus Okoye, National Commissioner for Information and Voter Education, said this at the 2022 Calabar Carnival, while sensitising Nigerians on …

Retired Colonel Abdulmumini Aminu, former Military Governor of Borno State, says Nigerians will vote massively for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in 2023, because it is time for the South to rule. “Nigerians are tired of us from the North, especially because we have …

Drambi Vandi Drambi Vandi, the police officer, who shot dead a Lagos-based lawyer, Bolanle Raheem on Christmas Day has appeared before the Magistrate Court in Yaba. Vandi appeared in court on Friday, days after he shot and killed Raheem on Christmas Day. The inspector general of police, Usman Baba had …

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has signed the N268 billion 2023 appropriation bill into law. Ganduje in November presented N245 billion to the State’s House of Assembly for approval. Speaking shortly after signing the document, Governor Ganduje said the legislators reviewed the budget upward to N268 billion to cater …

Pele The body of Pele, the greatest football player of all time, will be laid to rest at the home of Santos, where he enchanted the world. Pele, who died at the age of 82 on Thursday, will go straight from the Albert Einstein Hospital to Estádio Urbano Caldeira in …

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari has joined world leaders in expressing grief over the death of Brazilian soccer legend, Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pele who died on Thursday. The world’s greatest ever football player succumbed to death after suffering a debilitating bout of cancer. He won three …

Chris Ngige Senator Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, has said the Federal Government will soon make a pronouncement on salary increase for civil and public servants to cushion the effect of rising inflation. He stated this while speaking with State House reporters after a closed-door meeting with …

pestle A 31-year-old man has narrated how he killed his 48-year-old lover identified as Ijeoma Felix during an argument in her apartment at Lugbe area of Abuja. The suspect, who killed Ijeoma on 24 October, 2022 was paraded by operatives of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in Abuja on …

Ogbuchukwu Lotanna Ogbuchukwu, a former Anglican priest who resigned to start a movement in support of polygamy, has apologized and expressed willingness to return to the church. Mr Ogbuchukwu, in September, took a surprising decision to resign as a priest in the church, claiming that polygamy was not a sin …