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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 […]

Olusola Fabiyi, Friday Olokor and Adelani Adepegba The United States has said it is disappointed by the low voter turnout and reports of voter intimidation, vote -buying, interference by security forces and violence in some […]

Ifeoma Okagbue, an official of Standard Chartered Bank, on Thursday gave details of the balances of five bank accounts belonging to Walter Onnoghen, suspended chief justice of Nigeria (CJN). Okagbue while testifying before the tribunal […]

ABUJA- The Federal Government, on Thursday, closed its case against the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, after it produced only three witnesses that testified before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT. […]

Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday denied receiving N40,000 annually as facilitator at the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN. A statement issued by Obasanjo’s spokesman, Kehinde Akinyemi said the attention of the former […]

One evening in early September last year, Pius Adesanmi, telephoned me frantically from his base in Ontario. He had been calling for days and due to my excessively busy schedule at the time and the […]

Four people have been rescued from the building which collapsed at Egerton Square, Oke Arin, Lagos Island, on Monday. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) announced this in a statement. “The building had been […]

On February 23, 2019, some hoodlums in Lagos attempted to disrupt voting in the neighbourhoods of Lagos that are occupied predominantly by Igbos. By the way the definition of “Igbo” is any man or woman […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been reported to have stormed on Saturday a farm in Nasarawa State, belonging to the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. The operatives, who must […]

Rotimi Amaechi, Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, says the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), in charge of the construction of the train station in Iju-Abeokuta suspended the free ride during elections for security reasons. Speaking […]

Tunde Oyekola One of the five persons standing trial for last year’s bank robberies in Offa, Kwara State, Ayoade Akinnibosun, on Friday told an Ilorin High Court that the police deliberately killed Michael Adikwu, a […]

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, has said that the greatest misfortune that has ever befallen Nigeria as a nation was the discovery of oil and gas. Ogunwusi said this late on Friday during […]

Many people are feared dead as two-storey building collapsed at Bode area of Ibadan, Oyo State, on Friday evening. It was gathered that the building caved in around 5:50pm. Large number of people and sympathisers […]

The Lagos State Government on Friday began the demolition of distressed buildings on Lagos Island. The move is as a result of the collapsed three-storey building at Ita-Faji area of Lagos Islands in which several […]