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Many people have been rendered homeless in the Madobi Local Government Area of Kano State following a devastating windstorm on Sunday night. The windstorm, accompanied by a downpour, had also destroyed many residential buildings, public infrastructure, and power lines, leaving hundreds of residents of the area homeless and without power...

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has confirmed an explosion near the Mararaba-Nyanya Bypass on Monday afternoon, leaving one person injured. According to a statement issued by the Command’s spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, the incident occurred at about 2:50 p.m. on May 26, 2025. Officers from the Explosive Ordnance...

The Abia State Police Command has arrested a couple, Sunday Emebo (42) and Blessing Emebo (49), for allegedly operating an unregistered motherless babies’ home and engaging in child trafficking. According to a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Maureen Chinaka, the arrest was made on May 19, 2025, at...

The Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) on Monday ordered the sealing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national secretariat, Wadata Plaza, over the party’s failure to pay statutory ground rent for several years. At about 2:04 p.m., enforcement officials from the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), backed by a joint task force of...

Ahead of May 29, 2025 second anniversary of Governor Alex Otti in Abia state, the People Democratic Party (PDP) has strongly demanded for accountability, accusing the incumbent state government of secrecy in the cost of projects and the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). The party said while Alex Otti, as an...

Tinubu Appoints Yazid Danfulani as MD of Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of Yazid Shehu Umar Danfulani as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC). The appointment was formally conveyed in a letter dated May 22,...

The Young Professionals Forum of Nigeria has written to the Ambassador of the United States to Nigeria, Richard M. Mills Jr., requesting that the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, be denied a visa or any form of entry into the United...

Hundreds of young professionals from various fields in Nigeria on Wednesday stormed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Embassy in Abuja, demanding that the country to deport Mele Kyari, former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, to continue the ongoing probe over alleged corruption and...

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, have expressed optimism that Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso will return to the fold of the Economic Community of West African States, following renewed diplomatic engagements by the regional bloc. Speaking at an international...

All Progressives Congress chairmanship aspirant for Agege Local Government in Lagos State, Sola Osolana, has criticised a statement by  Chairman, Ganiyu Egunjobi. Egunjobi was said to have called Osolana a United Kingdom resident. His comment followed outcome of the primaries in Agege council and Orile Agege Local Government Development Area (LCDA)....