Tragedy struck in the Gboko West area of Benue State on Thursday as a teenager, Japheth Amine, drowned in River Nomnor Mke after sneaking out of school with his friends during study hours. According to eyewitnesses, the incident occurred earlier in the day when Japheth and a group of schoolmates went to swim in the…
Samuel Ortom, former governor of Benue, says he does not support a northern presidency in the 2027 elections. Ahead of the 2027 elections, some politicians have argued that only a northern candidate can defeat President Bola Tinubu in the next elections. Speaking with journalists in Makurdi, the capital of Benue, on Thursday, Ortom said the…
The Plateau State Police Command has commenced the prosecution of 22 individuals arrested in connection with the brutal killing of 13 wedding guests who were attacked in Mangun community, Mangu Local Government Area of the state. The incident, which occurred on June 20, involved a mob assault on a bus conveying passengers from Kaduna State…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, says it suspects foul play in the results of one Chinedu Okeke, the best candidate in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said this on Tuesday at the 2025 policy meeting of the Board in Abuja. Oloyede announced that Okeke, an indigene…
In a major offensive under Operation FANSAN YAMMA, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has neutralised scores of armed bandits in a series of precision airstrikes conducted on 9 July 2025, targeting a migrating convoy along the Kebbi–Zamfara axis. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter insurgency reporter, the strikes were based on real-time intelligence, which revealed…
Nigeria won’t cave in to pressure from the Donald Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees from the United States, the country’s Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar has said. Tuggar, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday, said Nigeria has enough challenges of its own and won’t be a dumping ground…
Popular logistics manager and aide to Davido, Israel DMW, has broken his silence following the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the petition filed by PDP governorship candidate Asue Ighodalo. Ighodalo had approached the apex court to challenge the declaration of Monday Okpebholo as the duly elected Governor of Edo State in the September 2023 governorship election….
Vice President Kashim Shettima has claimed he was the “most demonised” public figure during the final years of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. Shettima, a former Borno State governor, stated this in Abuja on Thursday during the public presentation of OPL 245: Inside Story of the $1.3bn Nigeria Oil Block, a book written by former…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has announced that it has now received a total of 129 applications from associations seeking registration as political parties. The update was provided during the commission’s regular weekly meeting held on Thursday. According to a statement signed by the National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee,…
Big Brother Naija Season 7 winner, Ijeoma Josephina Otabor, otherwise known as Phyna, says Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, may have lost his credibility in the wake of recent discoveries. In a post shared on her verified X account on Thursday, the celebrity star stated in clear terms that Peter…