Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has declared 19 illegal oil refinery kingpins in the state wanted. The Governor in a statewide broadcast on Sunday accused the identified persons of causing the black soot which has constituted both an environmental and health challenge in the state capital of Port Harcourt. Apart ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to immediately prepare the schedule/timetable for the national convention. Recall that the Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum and Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, had disclosed that the president ...

  Inspite of overtures by some Northern governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan to fly the flag of the party in next year’s election, there is no commitment yet from President Muhammadu Buhari or key party leaders on the matter. It was learnt that the ...

  At least seven people were killed and three were missing after a cliff collapsed onto boats carrying tourists on a lake in Brazil, authorities said Saturday. Rescue teams including a dive squad and members of the Brazilian Navy rushed to Furnas Lake in Minas Gerais state, where panicked tourists ...

  SUSPECTED Fulani kidnappers resumed criminal activities in Oyo State early on Saturday, as they struck at Onigaari axis of the Lagos-Ibadan highway, killing a commercial driver, identified as Oluwatosin Aruwajoye, and abducting five of his passengers, while another one, Ibrahim Tiamiyu, was shot in the thigh. One of the ...

  Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said his principal was “was persuaded and pressured” to contest for President in 2015. Buhari is in his second term in office, and will leave when his tenure expires in May 2023. Shehu, speaking ...

  The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa (retd.), has lost his first wife, Hajiya Zainab Marwa. A statement by the family on Saturday said Zainab Marwa died in the early hours of the day at the age of 66 after a brief ...

  The owner of Hilton hotel, Prince Ramon Adedoyin has been further indicted in the circumstances that led to the death of Timothy Adegoke, a masters student of OAU who died at the hotel some months ago. He was said to have been gruesomely murdered and buried by staffers of ...

  Samuel, the son of Funmilayo Adebayo, an evangelist nicknamed Mummy GO, on Friday said that his mother is not bothered about the hellfire memes circulating online. Evang. Adebayo, the founder of Rapture Proclaimer Evangelical Church of God, has been trending on social media due to her controversial pronouncements. Her ...

  Philippe Coutinho has joined Aston Villa on loan from Barcelona, the Premier League club said on Friday. “Welcome, Philippe Coutinho!” the club said in a Facebook post. “Aston Villa and FC Barcelona have agreed terms for Philippe Coutinho to spend the rest of this season on loan at Villa ...