The Federal Government has reiterated that no ransom was paid to free the recently kidnapped schoolchildren from Kuriga village in Kaduna State. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Monday after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa…
The federal government has revealed allegation of bribery and corruption against Leno Adesanya, the promoter of Sunrise Power and Transmission Company, in papers filed before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. According to an online newspaper, TheCable, Olu Agunloye, a former minister of power, in his motion on notice, attached documents…
A Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Nasiru Saminu has granted bail to controversial TikToker, Murja Ibrahim Kunya. The bail, set at the sum of N500,000.00, required two reliable sureties, including a relative and one other person possessing a landed property in Kano municipality of Kano State. Murja’s application for bail stemmed from…
Armed men burst into the Crocus City Hall near Moscow on Friday, March 22, 2024, killing at least 93 people and injuring many dozens more in the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege. The men, armed with Kalashnikov automatic weapons, arrived at the Crocus City Hall at around 7:40pm (1640 GMT)…
Five months into the armed conflict that engulfed Gaza over the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by the Islamist group, Hamas, the United Nations Security Council on Monday passed a resolution demanding ceasefire to the war. The resolution followed the restrain by the United States from vetoing the measure of change from its initial…
Global television audiences who tuned in for their local weather reports last Thursday were in for a surprise – a special forecast from the year 2050. While the format is familiar, the forecasts – anchored by children – are not. These young TV meteorologists joined the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for its newly Weather…
Airstrikes by Nigerian Air Force (NAF) aircraft under Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have destroyed terrorists’ hideouts and killed scores of the criminals in the Tumbuns near Lake Chad. The Director of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI), Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, in a statement, said the airstrikes were executed on March 24, 2024, at a…
The Nasarawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned “fifth columnist” within its fold to behave according to the party’s tenet or be shown the way out. The party said it cannot harbour stakeholders who bore ill-will against it and Governor Abdullahi Sule as the leader of the party in the state….
Airstrikes by Nigerian Air Force (NAF) aircraft under Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have destroyed terrorists’ hideouts and killed scores of the criminals in the Tumbuns near Lake Chad. The Director of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI), Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, in a statement, said the airstrikes were executed on March 24, 2024, at a…
The Nasarawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has warned “fifth columnist” within its fold to behave according to the party’s tenet or be shown the way out. The party said it cannot harbour stakeholders who bore ill-will against it and Governor Abdullahi Sule as the leader of the party in the state….
A 25 – year – old man simply identified as Monday, escaped lynching by angry mob after being apprehended with two live goats he allegedly stole at Obio Ndot community in Oruk Anam Local Goverment Area of Akwa Ibom State. LEADERSHIP gathered that the suspect at the weekend came to the village from his base…
Ahead of official declaration of the winner in the Senegal presidential election, candidate of the ruling coalition and former Prime Minister, Amadou Ba has congratulated the leading opposition candidate, Bassirou Diomaye Faye on his victory at the polls. The 44-year-old Faye’s victory is expected to change the political landscape of one of the Africa’s fastest-…