NOT less than 19 persons lost their lives in an auto crash that occurred on the Oyo-Ogbomoso Road on Sunday. The fatal crash was said to have been caused by a driver who drove against traffic, causing a head-on collision between a Toyota Hiace Bus registered as NTT52ZY and a Toyota Corolla salon car. According…
THE governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party during the 2021 Anambra State governorship election, Mr Valentine Ozigbo, has vowed to unseat the Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, in the governorship election in the state in 2025. Ozigbo, now a Labour Party aspirant for the Anambra State governorship election, said this when he and…
Advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has urged President Bola Tinubu to release to it copies of the loan agreements obtained by the governments of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, the late Umaru Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari. It also called on the President to make public “the spending details of any such loans…
RIVERS State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said the real people with integrity and character are solidly standing by his administration, adding that the backing by the former governor, Dr Peter Odili, is giving his detractors high blood pressure. Odili had last Thursday declared Fubara as the political leader of Rivers State, saying the people believed…
Operations conducted by the air component of Operation Delta Safe have led to the destruction of seven illegal refining sites at different locations in Rivers State. Equally, a total of four boats loaded with illegally refined products heading southwards were bombed by military aircraft deployed for the operations. In a statement on Sunday, the Director…
The rivalry between the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesome Wike, has become heightened ahead of the 98th National Executive Committee meeting of the party. One of the major issues likely to take centre stage at the NEC meeting scheduled for Thursday,…
Nigerians have called on the Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Abuja, Paul Enenche, to apologise to a member of his church who was publicly embarrassed and accused of dishonesty during a testimony session. A video that went viral on Sunday showed Enenche questioning the credibility of the woman’s testimony at his church in…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural orgnanisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Sunday, lauded the 700km Lagos-Calabar coastal road project estimated to cost N15trn. The organisation, in a statement by its Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, however, called on the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and other key players to focus on the positive economic impact…
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has ordered a painstaking investigation into the death of a hotel manager in Abia State, Achimugu Etubi. Some personnel of the Nigerian Army were said to have brutally tortured Etubi, which resulted in his death. This was after a Nigerian Air Force cadet, Emmanuel Onyemereche, reportedly…
The Kibaku Area Development Association has asked the Borno State Government to allow the Chibok schoolgirls so far rescued from Boko Haram to reunite with their families. The community made the demand at a press conference held at the Unity Fountain in Abuja on Sunday in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the abduction of…
Nigeria has witnessed its sixth power grid collapse of 2024, as electricity generation on the system collapsed from 2,583.77MW at 2am on Monday to 64.7MW around 3 am. Nigeria generates an average of 4,000MW of electricity for an estimated 200 million citizens across the country. But this is hardly sustainable, as the grid continues to…
The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has predicted dry, sunny conditions in the north and thunderstorms in the south on Monday. According to a report by NiMET, as Monday morning dawns, the weather forecast indicates a continuation of dry and sunny conditions in the northern parts of Nigeria. However, patches of clouds are expected to blanket the…
