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Aviation and Aerospace Development minister, Festus Keyamo, has warned that the Peoples Democratic Party risks serious setbacks in its 2027 presidential strategy if it opts for former President Goodluck Jonathan or ex-Anambra governor Peter Obi as its standard-bearer. In a long post on his X account on Sunday, Keyamo said the opposition party remains in […]

The All Progressives Congress has won 20 of the 23 local government areas in Saturday’s Chairmanship and Councillorship elections. The ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party, on the other hand, won only three LGAs in the poll conducted by the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission. Governor Siminalayi Fubara also lost his Opobo-Nkoro […]

By John Dike, Osogbo It was a solemn yet dignified farewell as the remains of the departed Assistant Comptroller General of Immigration, Joseph Olutayo Dada, were laid to rest over the weekend at his residence along Ijebu-Jesa Road, Ilesa, Osun State. The burial followed a funeral service held in his honour at the Foursquare Gospel […]

A former Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, has passed on. He was 69. His family in a statement on Sunday, confirmed his death after an undisclosed illness. The statement by his son, Solomon Arase Jnr., said the former police boss died on Sunday, August 31, 2025, at Cedercrest Hospital, Abuja, after a brief […]

By John Dike, Osogbo Kwara residents have fiercely criticized the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for describing the ₦70,000 minimum wage being paid by Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq as “lifeless,” calling the opposition party’s comment hypocritical and insensitive. The backlash came in response to a recent PDP press statement urging the state’s labour […]

INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has debunked alleged fraud in the number of registered voters released for Osun State in the latest nationwide Continuous Voter Registration, CVR. According to INEC’s figures, Osun State alone recorded 393,269 pre-registrations, the highest in the country. But stakeholders including political parties in the […]

The Nigerian Immigration Service has reviewed the cost of the country’s passport upward to N100,000, and N200,000. A statement by the Service spokesman, ACI AS Akinlabi, on Thursday, said the new fees, to be effective from September 1, 2025, will apply only to applications made within Nigeria. According to the statement, “The review which only […]

President Bola Tinubu has returned to Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, from his official trips to Japan and Brazil. He had departed Abuja on Thursday, August 14, for a two-nation trip to Japan and Brazil. While in Japan, he attended the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) in the City of Yokohama from August 20 […]

President Tinubu Hosts NGX Group Board and SEC Director-General in Brazil, Invited to NGX Trading Floor | State House/Bayo Onanuga President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday praised the “remarkable growth” of Nigeria’s capital market under his administration. This is as he credited investors’ confidence in his economic reforms for the surge in activity on the Nigerian […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress has clarified that, despite the widespread endorsement of President Bola Tinubu for a second term, other party members interested in the presidency will still be free to contest for the party’s ticket during the primaries. APC’s National Organising Secretary, Sulaiman Mohammad Argungu, disclosed this on Wednesday at an interactive session […]