Some critical stakeholders and opinion molders, yesterday, shared divergent views over the invitation by the First Lady, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, to host all Presidential aspirants of various political parties tomorrow at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja, for the break of Ramadan fast dinner (Iftar). While some view the development as strange and unwarranted, wondering […]

Buhari meets service chiefs, orders them to rescue all captives across Nigeria NSA: El-Rufai’s comments compromising security Syria better than Nigeria – Peter Obi Ngige: I will introduce state police to every hamlet as president Proliferation of vigilante outfits may worsen insecurity, group warns Nigeria deploys 173 troops in Guinea Bissau Rising from a four-hour […]

A tanker said to be loaded with petrol has crashed and exploded at Ajegunle Bus-Stop, Alagbado, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Several houses, among other property, were said to have been burnt in the inferno, as men of the state fire service and the police were deployed in the area. The incident happened around 3am on […]

The Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON, has said that it is currently reviewing relevant laws with a view to dispensing the stipulated punishment to Sterling Bank over its provocative and insensitive Easter Celebration advert. Earlier, the apex advertising regulatory body had called out the commercial bank for allegedly demeaning the resurrection of Jesus Christ […]

Some Civil Society Organisations on Thursday criticised the Presidency’s justification of the recent pardon granted to some convicts that include former governors of Plateau and Taraba States, Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame. President Muhammadu Buhari, on the advice of the Council of States, had last week pardoned 159 convicts, including Dariye and Nyame. The pardon […]