Category: News

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says at least 39 persons died, with more than 60 injured, after a petrol tanker exploded in Niger state. On Tuesday, the articulated vehicle exploded in the Essa community, along the Agaie–Bida road, Katcha LGA of the state. The explosion occurred after the tanker tumbled, with residents reportedly scooping […]

The Senate on Wednesday called for a major shift in Nigeria’s electoral jurisprudence, urging the burden of proof in election petitions should rest on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) rather than candidates. Its President, Godswill Akpabio made this call on Wednesday during deliberations on amendments to the Electoral Act 2022. He said INEC, as […]

Aregbesola National Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Rauf Aregbesola, and former Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Kolapo Olusola-Eleka, have condemned the attack on the party’s secretariat in Ado Ekiti. Residents and ADC members woke up on Tuesday to find that the secretariat had been set ablaze. Office equipment, plastic chairs, canopies, and sound […]

A new electricity tariff hike, secretly introduced by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, effective from October 1, 2025, has sparked an outrage in Akure, the state capital. The hike, described as unbearable generally by consumers, was allegedly implemented without prior notice or official communication from the company. The development, as investigations showed, has left […]

The All Progressives Congress in Lagos State has said that the opposition parties in the country have failed woefully on all counts, describing them as directionless. The party’s spokesman, Seye Oladejo, in a statement released on Tuesday, said the party observed with grave concern the deteriorating state of the so-called opposition parties in Nigeria. He […]

President Bola Tinubu has nominated Dr Bernard Doro from Plateau State as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, forwarding his name to the Senate for confirmation. Doro’s nomination comes after the elevation of Prof. Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, who was elected National Chairman of the […]

The House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved to intervene in the recent face-off between members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria and the Dangote Refinery, which had disrupted petroleum product distribution nationwide. The resolution of the House followed the consideration and adoption of a motion of urgent public importance co-sponsored […]

By John Dike, Osogbo The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has launched its 2025 Ember Months Road Safety Campaign, urging motorists to exercise discipline and responsibility to curb road crashes during the festive period. Speaking at the event, the FRSC Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, stressed that road safety begins with individual discipline, emphasizing the dangers […]

Seeks More Role for Women In Leadership Positions A legal icon and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Chief Wole Olanipekun has revealed the critical role played by President Bola Tinubu in preventing the nation from sliding into a one-party state when the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was controlling the presidency. The lawyer […]

Former Minister of Interior and National Secretary of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Rauf Aregbesola, has revealed why president Bola Tinubu will lose the 2027 general elections. He stated that regardless the grandstanding of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, will take over the mantle of leadership in Nigeria and […]