QUICK MILLITARY RESPONSE AVERTS BLOODY CLASH IN BENUE
Personnel of the Joint Task Force, Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS), have promptly intervened to cease a violent communal dispute between the Ugambe community in the...
AFTER PUBLIC BACKLASH, ASABA ORPHANAGE OWNER SURRENDERS TO NAPTIP
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons said Christopher Nwoye, the owner of Happy Home Orphanage, a controversial facility in Asaba, Delta,...
CBN SAYS ALTERNATIVE PAYMENT CHANNELS LIFTING RURAL, UNDERSERVERED NIGERIANS
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has characterized alternative payment systems as an essential support mechanism for rural populations and marginalized communities throughout the nation....
OIL LEAK POLLUTES FARMLANDS, RIVERS IN BAYELSA COMMUNITIES
An oil spill from an 8-inch crude delivery pipeline at Oil Mining Lease 29 has polluted Nembe communities around the Santa Barbara River in Bayelsa....
POPULAR TIKTOKER FACES JAIL TIME IN KANO OVER CONTROVERSIAL VIRAL VIDEO
BY MUNIRAT BALOGUN A Magistrate Court convened in Kano has mandated the detention of renowned TikToker, Ashiru Idris, popularly recognized as Mai Wushirya, at...
OWODE ONIRIN TRADERS PROTEST OVER KILLING OF SEVEN PERSONS
BY MUNIRAT BALOGUN Traders at the Owode-Onirin Motor Spare Parts Market have urged the Lagos State House of Assembly to establish an autonomous investigative panel...
TEENAGE BOY FOUND DEAD AFTER SUSPECTED SUICIDE IN MAKURDI
By Aishat Momoh. O. A teenage boy identified as Tersoo Veregh was found hanging from the roof of his father’s house on Lorkyaako Street,...
LAGOS WATERWAYS FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH – SANWO-OLU
By Sunmisola Shodayo The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday, revealed that the city’s waterways constitute a fundamental basis for its future economic...
‘JIHAD IS TO STRIVE, NOT TO KILL’ — SULTAN OF SOKOTO
By Sunmisola Shodayo The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, has elucidated that jihad in Islam does not entail the killing of non-Muslims,...
WIKE LAUNCHES FREE MOTHER–BABY KITS, SAYS NO WOMAN SHOULD FACE CHILDBIRTH WITHOUT SUPPORT
By Sunmisola Shodayo The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has initiated the complimentary distribution of Mother–Baby Kits as part of events...