By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has announced that the recent turmoil within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been resolved for the time being, following the defection of key figures, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Speaking at a media briefing...
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Less than 72 hours after his reported resignation, the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPCL), Bayo Ojulari, was on Monday morning sighted in his office. He was said to resumed in his office at the NNPCL Towers, in the Central Business District,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives conducting intelligence-led stop and search operations in Gwarimpa, Jahi, and Galadimawa areas of the FCT has arrested three dispatch riders for distributing illicit substances around the city. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja- FCT Police Command has arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of a 55-year-old caregiver, Mrs. Chinyere Anaene, and a one-year-and-two-month-old toddler, Nanenter Yese, entrusted to her care. According to the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, said the command, on July 23,...
Federal Executive Council (FEC), chaired by President Bola Tinubu, has approved contracts totaling over ₦1 trillion to bolster electricity supply in universities and hospitals and upgrade aviation infrastructure nationwide, as announced following Thursday’s FEC meeting at the State House, Abuja. The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, revealed that ₦68.7...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday charged state governors to prioritise the welfare of Nigerians by investing more in their future, putting more money in rural electrification, agricultural mechanisation, poverty eradication and infrastructure. President Tinubu spoke on Thursday in an address at a meeting of the National Economic Council...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Usman Ododo, has expressed appreciation to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the ongoing reconstruction and expansion of the Abuja–Lokoja highway. Governor Ododo, who spoke during a brief stopover at a section of the project site in Koton-Karfe, described the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Labour Party has refuted claims of organizing a One-Million-Man-March aimed at violently overthrowing President Bola Tinubu led administration. In a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja, Ken Asogwa, Senior Special Adviser on Media to the party’s Interim National Chairman, Senator Nenadi Usman, addressed a...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Department of State Services (DSS) on Tuesday released three persons detained on the suspicion of belonging to the outlawed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), and it’s militant wing, Eastern Security Network (ESN), and involvement in the killing of seven Fulani cattle herders. The Service...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- President Bola Tinubu has conferred national honours on all 24 players and the 11-member technical team of Nigeria’s senior women’s national football team, the Super Falcons, following their historic victory at the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco. At the presidential reception...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- President Bola Tinubu on Friday met with colleague governors, the 1999-2007 set, also known as the Class of 1999. Below are pictures of their meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja:
House of Representatives Committee on University Education has directed a suspension of the appointment process for a new vice-chancellor at the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) until an ongoing investigation into the institution’s leadership crisis is resolved. The committee chairman, Rep. Abubakar Fulata (APC-Jigawa), announced this decision in a statement...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja- Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Manu Garba as the Head Coach of the national U-17 men’s team, the Golden Eaglets, and Moses Aduku as the Head Coach of the national U-20 women’s team, the Falconets. According to a statement released on Friday by Ademola...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has reported that a suspected vandal was fatally electrocuted while attempting to tamper with Tower 34 along the Nkalagu-Abakaliki 132 Kilo Volt (kV) Line in Ebonyi State on July 19. The company’s General Manager of Public Affairs, Mrs. Ndidi...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, has confirmed the passing of Alhaji Ibrahim Bello, the Emir of Gusau, who died at the age of 71 after a prolonged illness. The announcement was made through a statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Idris, on Friday. According...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) has advised party leaders and members to exercise restraint in their remarks regarding individuals leaving the party. Speaking at the 81st BoT meeting held on Thursday at the PDP national headquarters in Abuja, BoT Chairman Sen. Adolphus Wabara, represented by BoT...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede, has directed an immediate investigation into a viral video circulating on social media, in which soldiers reportedly voiced concerns over inadequate food supplies. The COAS gave the directive in a statement issued by the Acting Director of...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- All Progressives Congress (APC) has relocated its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, set for Thursday, July 24, 2025, from its national secretariat in Abuja to the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa at 2:00 p.m. According to a statement by APC National Publicity Secretary Felix...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has signed a Development Agreement with MAG International Links Limited, an International Consortium, for the development of the Abuja City Walk project. Speaking during the signing ceremony in Abuja on Wednesday, Wike reiterated the FCT Administration’s...
In its bid to strengthen regional health governance to optimize the response to emerging and re-emerging health threats within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control (RCSDC), has moved to the operational stage with a Technical Advisory Council (TAC), to...