Controversy over the conduct of WASSCE in parts of the country made headlines in May, after students in Taraba and Ogun and other states were made to sit for exams at night. The President of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Yomi Otubela, has criticised the conduct of the West African Senior…
Tinubu said Doyin embodied integrity, tenacity, hard work, commitment to excellence, and dedication to public good and good governance. President Bola Tinubu has mourned the passage of Doyin Abiola and described her as an icon in Nigerian journalism. Mrs. Abiola was said to have died on Tuesday night. She was a former Managing Director and…
Chanting slogans and waving placards with different inscriptions, the protesters marched around the INEC premises under the watch of security operatives. Members of the Julius Abure-led group of the Labour Party (LP) on Wednesday protested at the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja against the omission of its candidates’ names…
The Coordinator of Gbenga Hashim Vanguard North West, Honorable Aminu Bala Wudilawa, has called on the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to reject blackmail and pressures to hand over the party’s presidential ticket to any regional political warlord under the pretext of zoning or power rotation. Aminu said that zoning has done enough…
The Osun state chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) is invited to the wedding of David Adeleke (Davido) in the United States which Governor Ademola Adeleke is attending for a few days. Spokesperson to the Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed extended the invitation to the opposition after its statement asking for the whereabouts of the…
….Berates Wike’s endorsement of Tinubu The South-West region of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be at the forefront of efforts to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 general elections, the Gbenga Hashim Solidarity Movement has declared. Speaking in a bold statement released to the press, Alhaji Abass Olaniyi, South-West Coordinator of the…
Police operatives in the Federal Capital Territory have arrested two sisters and a couple for faking a kidnapping in the nation’s capital. The spokesperson, FCT Police Command, Josephine Adeh, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. She said the sisters, conspired with two others, to stage a kidnapping and demand ₦5 million as ransom from…
NAFDAC described the seizure as one of the largest in recent months and is part of the institution’s crackdown on the circulation of unsafe consumer goods across the country. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has seized banned, expired, and unregistered products valued at over ₦1.5 billion during a major…
Former First Lady of Ondo, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has publicly declared her support for Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential flagbearer, citing his pledge to serve only one four-year term if elected. Akeredolu’s wife, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), praised Peter Obi’s commitment, saying it mirrors the bold approach of Singapore’s former Prime…
A white South African farm worker on trial for murder has told the court he was forced to feed the bodies of two black women to pigs. According to his lawyers, Adrian de Wet, 20, is one of three men accused of murdering Maria Makgato, 45, and Lucia Ndlovu, 34, who were allegedly searching for…
