The Appeal Court on Monday ordered a stay of execution of the Abuja High Court’s judgment suspending Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman of the All Progressives Party (APC). The Appeal Court had on Monday postponed indefinitely hearing in Oshiomhole’s case against his suspension by the High Court. The court later reversed itself and heard the […]

Results of the 312,000 candidates that sat for Saturday’s 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) nationwide have been released, says Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The Board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. Benjamin urged all concerned […]

The fate of the suspended National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, is yet unknown as the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, Monday, suspended the hearing of the appeal he filed. The appeal was challenging his suspension as the Chairman of the party by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory. […]

The death toll from a suspected gas explosion that tore through a residential area of Nigeria’s biggest city Lagos rose to 19 on Monday as emergency services dug bodies from the debris. The blast next to an oil pipeline destroyed buildings, lorries and cars as it tore through a residential area of the sprawling city […]

The Principal of Bethlehem Girls College, Rev. Sr Henrietta Alokha has died. She was one of the victims of the explosion witnessed on Sunday in the Abule Ado community of Lagos State. Rev. Sr Henrietta Alokha who worked hard to rescue some students trapped in the boarding school under her care, died after the roof […]

Kano CP cited order from Abuja to banish me to Nasarawa I was harassed out of palace without taking my personal belongings Ex-emir seeks right to live in Kano, leaves Abuja for Lagos Why I won’t abandon ex-CBN gov –El-Rufai Lamido Sanusi says his dethronement as Emir of Kano is unjustifiable but he won’t take […]

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has warned the Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, against treating the traditional institution in Yorubaland with levity. He said unlike in some ethnic groups, where there was nothing attached to their traditional institutions, the Yoruba traditional institution was “ancestral and spiritual.” The monarch stated this in […]

The deposed Emir of Kano, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, will on March 26 chair the convocation lecture of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, with the theme, ‘The Future of Developing Economies in a Digital World. The lecture, according to the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun is part of activities lined up to mark the […]

Indication emerged yesterday that the Federal Government was still consulting on whether the pump price of petroleum products should be slashed as a result of the crash in the crude oil prices. Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, gave the indication while addressing newsmen after the presidential committee set up to review the […]