2023: Kalu withdraws from presidential race
Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu has withdrawn from the 2023 presidential race. He threw his weight behind the presidential bid of Senate President Ahmad Lawan, the latest entrant into…
Northern group ‘obtains’ APC presidential form for Jonathan
After months of hide and seek, former President Goodluck Jonathan may have finally joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential race. A group of supporters of Fulani extraction and Almajiris…
ASUU strike: NANS vows to block airports, federal roads
The National Association of Nigerian Students on Monday vowed to block all federal roads and airports in the country to protest the 12-week extension of the strike by the Academic…
Court declines Emefiele’s request retrain INEC, AGF over presidential bid
A Federal High Court in Abuja has declined the request by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Attorney…
ASUU extends strike by 12 weeks
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has rolled over its ongoing strike for another 12 weeks. A statement signed by ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said this was to give…
No sit-at-home order in Delta, say police
The Commissioner of Police, Delta Command, Mr Ari Ali, has said that there is no sit-at-home order in the state as declared by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra. Ali…
IPOB to UK: you’ll benefit from Biafra
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has hailed the British government for clarifying its purported classification of the group as a terrorist organisation. The group, however, called on the…
APC slams nine conditions on presidential aspirants
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has released nine guidelines for the conduct of presidential, governorship and parliamentary aspirants ahead of primaries. The contenders have been barred from going to court…
BREAKING: Airline operators suspend planned operations shutdown
Airline operators in the country on Sunday said they would not continue with the planned suspension of flight operations as earlier announced. The body clarified that their decision followed intervention…
NDLEA arrests two pregnant women, barber at Lagos airport
Dug traffickers including two pregnant women have been arrested by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos for attempting to…