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  The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, says 24 federal institutions have been powered by solar energy under the “Energising Education Project” of President Bola Tinubu’s Administration.   Alausa, who disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja at the Collaboration Agreement Signing Ceremony with the vice chancellors of beneficiary institutions, added ...

  The Senator representing Kano South Senatorial District under the platform of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Senator Kawu Sumaila, has defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress.   President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, read the letter of the lawmaker’s defection at plenary on Wednesday.   According ...

  With the defection of the Edo State House of Assembly Speaker, Blessing Agbebaku and other Peoples Democratic Party members to the All Progressives Congress on Tuesday, the member representing Oredo East Constituency, Frank Omosigho, has reaffirmed his loyalty to PDP.   In a statement released in Benin on Wednesday, ...

  The Chairman of Bariga Local Government Area of Lagos State, Kolade Alabi, on Wednesday, suddenly slumped at the All Progressives Congress stakeholders’ meeting held at the party’s Secretariat in Ikeja, the state capital.   PUNCH Online reports that Alabi, who is the state chairman of the Association of Local ...

  Boko Haram terrorists have killed a Nigerian Army Captain and a soldier in a midnight attack on Izge community in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State.   The Emir of Gwoza, Mohammed Shehu Timta, made this known in an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday.   He said ...

  Animal welfare officers have faced the grisly task of euthanising more than 350,000 chickens by hand after they were left starving and cannibalising each other.   This happened when a South African state-owned poultry company ran out of money to feed them, officials said on Tuesday.   The National ...

  The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, on Wednesday, urged Nigerian media professionals and editors to play a strategic role in the fight against terrorism by deliberately denying terrorist groups the publicity they seek.   Speaking during the seventh edition of the 2025 Ministerial Press Briefing Series ...

  The trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, continued at the Federal High Court in Abuja, with Justice James Omotosho presiding.   The prosecution presented more evidence to support claims that Kanu was involved in terrorism.   A witness known as named BBB, ...

  The Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum, has banned the sale of alcoholic beverages in the state.   The governor made the announcement on Tuesday at the inauguration of a reconstituted committee on “revocation of illegal hotels, brothels, shanties, and criminal hideouts and curbing the menace of antisocial ...

  India launched military strikes on Pakistan on Wednesday and Pakistan claimed it shot down five Indian Air Force jets, in an escalation that has pushed the two nations to the brink of a wider conflict.   The escalation puts India and Pakistan, two neighbors with a long history of ...