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A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft operated by Southwest Airlines made an emergency landing Tuesday after experiencing an engine problem as it was being ferried from Florida to California, the US Federal Aviation Agency said. “The […]

Parents at a primary school in Birmingham have held a fresh protest calling for lessons about gay relationships to be stopped. Demonstrators gathered outside Anderton Park School calling for the headteacher to stand down and […]

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu has claimed that 32 individuals and corporate organizations in the country looted over N1.3 trillion between 2011 and 2015. He […]

By Kazeem Ugbodaga The All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu and the Director-General, Department of State Service, DSS, Yusuf Magaji Bichi to urgently investigate […]

Residents of Satellite Town in the Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State have petitioned the Federal Government over the indiscriminate siting of tank farms and the blockage of water channels in the area. The […]

The eight-year-old Nigerian chess champion, Tanitoluwa Adewunmi, and his family have moved into a new apartment, courtesy of goodwill donations after his success story went viral. According to the New York Times, the young Tani, […]

A building on Kakawa street in Lagos Island, has collapsed, bringing to three the total number of building which has collapsed in the local government in the last two weeks. On March 13, a three-storey […]

Oladipo Okpeseyi and Temitope Adebayo, two Nigerian lawyers hired for the return of $321 million Abacha loot from Switzerland, have been secretly paid their controversial fees, TheCable can report. Although they were initially to be […]

Iyabo Toluhi (nee Adesanmi), the elder sister of the late Pius Adesanmi, on Saturday described the death of his brother as a great loss to the family and community. Mrs Toluhi, spoke in an interview […]

Today, March 24, makes it exactly two decades since Nigeria lost one of its foremost heroic figures, the late Major-General AbdulBaki Babatunde Idiagbon, to the cold hands of death. He was 56 years old. General […]

Suleiman Adamu, the Minister for Water Resources, has said Nigeria is set to become the world’s most notorious country in open defecation. Adamu stated this on Saturday while speaking on the theme: ‘Water, Sanitation and […]

Gboyega Oyetola, Governor of Osun State, has insisted that he remains Governor of the state until all legal issues surrounding his election are sorted out. He said this in response to a judgment by the […]

Aminu Tambuwal, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State, has retained his seat as the Governor of Sokoto state, by a slim margin, after collation of results from 22 Local Governments […]

In a new video that has emerged, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, has admitted collecting millions of naira from Festus Keyamo, spokesman of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign organisation. In a video interview […]

Olusola Fabiyi, Olalekan Adetayo, Sunday Aborisade, Ade Adesomoju, Bola Bamigbola and Ademola Babalola There was jubilation across Osun State on Friday as the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Abuja nullified the victory of Adegboyega Oyetola […]

The Osun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has declared Ademola Adeleke as winner of the September 2018 election in the state. The 3-man tribunal upheld the the petitions filed by the candidate […]

The failure and incapability of the Nigerian government to investigate and punish both state and non-state actors accused of human rights violations in the country has led to the entrenchment of abuses such as torture, […]

Tanitoluwa Adewumi, the eight-year-old Nigerian chess whizz who has become an internet sensation, has raised over $100,000 in just two days. Over the weekend, New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, wrote extensively about Adewunmi’s historic […]