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A pro-democracy and anti-sabotage organisation on the platform of The Natives, has said the Joe Ajaero-led Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) lied that it will scuttle inauguration of the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the 16th Nigerian President on May 29. A Northern group under the umbrella of Arewa Youth Assembly...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a freight agent, Nwobodo Chidiebere; a female suspect, Chioma Lucy Akuta; and the drug man behind the shipment, Charles Ezeh, with large methamphetamine drug concealed in powdered custard containers as part of a consolidated cargo going to London, United Kingdom at the...

By Abdullahi Sule Ahead of the commencement of 2023 Hajj exercise, the advance team of 31 officials from the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, on Sunday departed for Saudi Arabia from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. This was even the the commission disclosed that the inaugural flight of...

The Nigerian Army College of Logistics and Management has embarked on the 2023 Africa Study Tour to Malawi, Kenya, and Cote D’Ivoire. The College Public Relations Officer, Major George Okupe, revealed this in a post on the force’s Twitter page on Sunday. Okupe noted the tour was part of an...

The president-elect, Bola Tinubu, has returned to the country from his working visit to France. The private jet of the two-term governor of Lagos State landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja where he was welcomed by his supporters, party members and some governors. Among the delegation were...

Some Nigerians, under a group called Free Nigeria Movement, on Saturday stormed the Force Headquarters and Court of Appeal to express their displeasure on recent killings in Nasarawa, Benue, and Jos. The protesters, mostly women, asked the police and other security operatives to rise to the occasion and put an...

Timothy Keller, a pastor and best-selling author who founded the influential Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, died on Friday at home after battling pancreatic cancer for three years at the age of 72. His family disclosed that he died with his wife of 48 years, Kathy, by his...

A Civil Society Organisation, CSO operating under the aegis of Nigerian Movement for Probity and Accountability, NMP, has called for the prosecution of Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai over alleged sale of federal government properties between 2005 to 2007 when he was the Minister of Federal Capital Territory,...

The Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party PDP in the last election, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku on Friday told the Presidential Election Petition Court that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC lacks legal right to Defend Ahmed Bola Tinubu in the Drug and Dual Citizenship Accusations. Atiku insisted that INEC...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Friday, unveiled the Presidential/VIP Wing of the State House Medical Centre in Abuja. The hospital, built on 2,485 square metres, is a specialised Intensive Care Centre to cater for the President, Vice President, their immediate families and other VIPs. The presidential/ VIP...