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By Akinwale Kasali 24 hours, after calling out All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader and Presidential Aspirant, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and former Interim APC National Chairman, Bisi Akande, over the re-election ambition of Governor Gboyega Oyetola, Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, is swimming in troubled waters. Speaker of the …

Prof. Tunde Samuel, a close ally and top political strategist of the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is dead. Sameul, a chieftain of the APC in Lagos State is also a prominent member of the influential Governor Advisory Council (GAC), the elite group …

Hon. Abdullahi Mahmud Gaya,  the chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream),  has assured Nigerians that his committee will ‘handle’ companies that imported methanol-blended Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) into the country. The chairman was responding to a question during the committee’s engagement with management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company …

Mele Kyari, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPC), has  said that fuel queues will normalize in a few days. Kyari gave the assurance when he addressed the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), on Wednesday on the situation which was caused by methanol-blended Premium …

Adamu Adamu, Minister of Education Adamu Adamu, minister of Education, has said that he is not sure if federal government could meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The union had declared a 30-day warning strike on Monday over the federal government’s failure to honour the …

Given the phenomenal promise and the prospects of Nigeria as an anticipated leading light of the black and African world back in the day, many are at a loss as to how low the nation has sunk presently. On the other hand, there is also the glaring challenge of who …

LASU Gate The management of Lagos State University has debunked claims that the institution’s Senate Building was gutted by fire on Wednesday afternoon. The varsity’s Coordinator, Centre for Information Press and Public Relations, Ademola Adekoya, made the clarification in a statement titled, ‘Disregard Video Showing LASU Senate Building on Fire’. …

The Department of State Services (DSS) has explained why leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, appeared in court in the same suit he’s been wearing since June last year. The DSS told the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday that Kanu wanted to wear a …

​ Academic activities have been paralysed at the University of Ibadan, Ladoke Akintola University and University of Ilorin campuses as lecturers executive the one-month strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities to pressure government to sign renegotiated conditions of service for lecturers among other demands. The universities which …

A group under the aegis of Lagosians Advocacy Group (LAG) has dragged the Federal Character Commission (FCC) and 18 others before Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa of a Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged continuous and deliberate violation of constitutional rights of Lagos State indigenes regarding appointments into public offices and career positions. …