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[8:41 AM, 5/21/2021] Jimi Disu: All Passport Issuing Centres have been directed to clear existing backlog of applications on or before 31st May, 2021. To this effect requests for Fresh and/or Reissue shall not be […]

By Stephen Kenechukwu The Lagos police say the report of a kidnapping incident in the Lekki area of the state is false. On Tuesday, there were reports on social media suggesting that gunmen were abducting […]

The Federal Government, yesterday, confirmed receipt of £4,214,017.66 million recovered from former Governor James Ibori of Delta State. The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who made the confirmation, said […]

Abidemi Rufai, an aide to Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, has spoken on his alleged involvement in a $350,000 COVID-19 unemployment fraud. Mr Rufai was arrested by officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni GOVERNOR Bababjide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, yesterday, formally launched the First and Last Mile, FLM, bus scheme with 500 buses and 100 high capacity buses, under the Lagos State Bus Service Limited, […]

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA—PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron of France has assured President Muhammadu Buhari that his country is willing to support Nigeria with everything to overcome security threats. The two Presidents made the commitment of working […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on European countries and global financial institutions to restructure Africa’s debt portfolios and provide complete debt relief, to reduce the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. The president made the […]

Akinwunmi Ambode, former governor of Lagos state, has been appointed as the deputy chairman of the south-west subcommittee of the contact and strategy committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Ambode, who announced the appointment […]

By Luminous Jannamike, ABUJA The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, says the 10-point declaration by 17 Southern governors in Asaba, Delta State has exposed the long years of leadership failure in the North. It said […]

Founder of Trinity Church and Convener of the African Leadership Group Pastor Itua Ighodalo has said Nigeria can only delay structural changes to its peril. He said the unitary system masquerading as federalism must give […]

The immediate past Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, is presently in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Sources stated that the former governor has been under interrogation for the past seven […]

Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says 476 websites set up to fight the federal government have been uncovered. Mohammed spoke on Monday when he received officials of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations […]

Senator Rochas Okorocha, representing Imo West Senatorial District, has said he became poorer after spending eight years as governor of Imo state. He denied acquiring any property with government funds as governor. Okorocha said this […]

Presiding Bishop, Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo has revealed what he would do if Nigeria is engulfed in crisis. Oyedepo, in one of his sermons said he would be the last person to leave […]

A self-styled Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, on Saturday, threatened to disrupt the 2023 general elections in Southwest states of Nigeria. Mr Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, spoke in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, during […]

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide SanwoOlu, told select journalists recently that he has been keeping to a daily timeline in trying to deliver on his THEMES campaign manifesto. The governor noted that although nobody contemplated […]