Author: Olayinka Popoola

FG considers pay raise for political office holders

August 19, 2025

The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission has hinted at plans to review the salaries of political office holders in...

Read More →

You’ve no right to confer Yorubaland chieftaincy title, Alaafin tackles Ooni of Ife

August 19, 2025

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade, has taken a strong swipe at the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan...

Read More →

Osun NULGE battles AGF over seized funds suit transfer

August 19, 2025

The Osun State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees has accused the Office of the Attorney General...

Read More →

APC National Chairman Loses Mother

August 18, 2025

The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, has lost his mother, Mama Lydia Yilwatda. The...

Read More →

Osun 2026: Adeleke rallies mass participation in voter registration

August 18, 2025

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has called on indigenes and residents to actively participate in the Continuous Voter Registration...

Read More →

INEC CVR portal records over 26,000 visits on first day

August 18, 2025

The Independent National Electoral Commission has recorded over 26,000 visits to its Continuous Voter Registration portal just hours after the...

Read More →

Out-of-school crisis: FG introduces cash transfer to mothers

August 18, 2025

The Federal Government has launched the Basic Education Transformation Agenda, a comprehensive reform package designed to boost school enrollment and...

Read More →

Akpabio returns from London, dismisses ill health speculations

August 18, 2025

Senate President Godswill Akpabio returned to Abuja early Monday after a brief vacation in London, a move seen as putting...

Read More →

EXPRESSION OF SOLIDARITY WITH FRESH FM AND BLAST FM AFTER THE FIRE INCIDENT

August 16, 2025

The Management of InfoGiant 97.1 FM, Ipetu Modu, Osun State, extends its deepest sympathy and solidarity to Dr. Yinka Ayefele...

Read More →

NCAA grants approval to Gateway Airport to begin commercial flights

August 16, 2025

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), on Friday, granted approval to the Gateway International Agro-Cargo Airport, Ilisan-Iperu, Ogun State, to begin...

Read More →

HoS Warns Civil Servants Against Partisan Politics Ahead of 2027 Polls

August 16, 2025

As the 2027 general election draws nigh, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoS), Mrs Didi Esther...

Read More →

11 Nigerian Miners Rescued from Central African Republic

August 16, 2025

The 11 Nigerian miners stranded in the Central African Republic have returned to the country through the intervention of the...

Read More →

NCoS threatens to sanction officers over repeated jailbreaks

August 16, 2025

The Nigerian Correctional Service has warned that officers found negligent in their duties will face sanctions, following a series of jailbreaks...

Read More →

INEC confirms 16 bye-elections across 12 states for Saturday

August 15, 2025

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that bye-elections will be held in 16 federal and state constituencies, as...

Read More →

D’Tigress makes history as only African team in FIBA top 10

August 15, 2025

Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, has risen to 8th in the latest FIBA Women’s World Rankings, propelled by their historic...

Read More →

Tinubu heads to TICAD9 in Japan, Brazil for bilateral talks

August 15, 2025

President Bola Tinubu on Friday departed Abuja for a two-nation official visit to Japan and Brazil, with a brief stopover...

Read More →

What I Told EFCC Officials Who Interrogated Me –Tambuwal

August 15, 2025

Former Governor of Sokoto State and serving Senator, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has opened up on his recent encounter...

Read More →

Bandit leader Turji yet to surrender – DHQ

August 14, 2025

The Defence Headquarters has denied reports that bandit leader Bello Turji has surrendered to the military. The Director of Defence...

Read More →

FG to repair Third Mainland Bridge with over N3trillion – Umahi

August 14, 2025

The Minister of Works, David Umahi, said the structural rehabilitation of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State will cost...

Read More →

INEC to deploy 2,062 officials, 574 BVAS machines for by-elections in Ibadan

August 14, 2025

Ahead of the Saturday, August 16, by-election in Ibadan North Federal Constituency, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Oyo State,...

Read More →

U.S. approves $346m arms sale to Nigeria

August 14, 2025

The United States State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Nigeria of munitions, precision bombs, precision rockets,...

Read More →

FG bans creation of new tertiary institutions for seven years

August 13, 2025

The Federal Government has imposed a seven-year moratorium on the establishment of new federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education,...

Read More →

BREAKING NEWS: Court discharges Ibom Air passenger

August 13, 2025

An Ikeja Magistrate Court sitting inOgba, Lagos State on Wednesday, discharged Comfort Emmanson, the passenger accused of unruly behaviour and...

Read More →

EFCC probes traveller over undeclared $59,000 at Lagos Airport

August 13, 2025

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has started investigation into one Duru Ikechukwu Damian, who was arrested for allegedly failing to...

Read More →

FG withdraws criminal complaint against Emmannson, reduces Kwam 1’s sanction

August 13, 2025

The Federal Government has withdrawn the criminal complaint against Ibom Airline offender, Comfort Emmanson, while reducing the flight ban on...

Read More →

Seven Inmates Recaptured After 16 Escape From Keffi Prison

August 12, 2025

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has confirmed that 16 inmates escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Keffi, Nasarawa...

Read More →

FG begins recruitment of perm secs for new ministries

August 12, 2025

The Federal Government has begun the process of appointing five new permanent secretaries, three of whom will head newly established...

Read More →

JAMB to block admissions into institutions withholding matriculation lists

August 12, 2025

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has warned that it will not approve admissions for the 2024 and 2025 academic...

Read More →

We’ve disbursed N86.3bn loans to Nigerian students so far — NELFUND

August 12, 2025

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced the disbursement of ₦86.3 billion in loans to 449,039 students since the...

Read More →

EFCC detains Tambuwal over ‘suspicious’ withdrawal of N189b

August 12, 2025

Suspicious’ withdrawal of N189 billion from the Sokoto State Government account during his tenure has landed Senator Waziri Aminu Tambuwal in the Economic...

Read More →