There is a growing tension in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, following the killing of a female student of the Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State, Miss Emmanuela Ahenjir, at the early hours of Friday at Wurukum Roundabout. The Nation learnt that the deceased student went out with some friends on Thursday night and was returning…
Abdul-Azeez Adediran “Jandor”, the 2023 PDP governorship candidate in Lagos State and lead visioner of the Lagos4Lagos movement, says his assignment presently is working towards the re-election of President Bola Tinubu in 2027. Mr Adediran said this during a rally to announce his return to the APC in Ojo area of Lagos on Friday Mr…
The Ministry of Interior has announced the launch of a new Online Citizenship and Business Management Platform. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Magdalene Ajani, made this known in a statement on Friday in Abuja. She explained that the initiative is a key part of the Ministry’s ongoing reforms aimed at promoting transparency, enhancing operational efficiency,…
Former PDP presidential aspirant and ex-President of the World Igbo Congress, Dr. Nwachukwu Anakwenze, has warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against fielding Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for the 2027 presidential election, predicting that the party would lose the remaining states it currently controls if it does. Speaking during an interview in Abagana, Njikoka Local Government…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that an unusual event has gone viral after a man reportedly became stuck with a woman during an intimate act. It was alleged that the duo became glued because the man unknowingly engaged in an intimacy with someone else’s wife. The unusual incident was captured in a video shared on X (formerly…
The Senate President, Godwill Akpabio, in Akwa Ibom State on Friday, said that there will be no political party in the state come the 2027 general election. This is as he stated that the Peoples Democratic Party’s umbrella has been torn into shreds and can no longer protect the people. Akpabio, who represents Akwa Ibom…
Nigeria’s external reserves have recorded a sustained rebound for the first time in 2025, rising by $364 million between April 30 and May 14, 2025. This marks the first consistent two-week upward trend in the country’s foreign reserves since they peaked on January 6, 2025, at $40.92 billion. According to the latest figures published by…
Senate President Godswill Akpabio says the national assembly will enforce a law mandating a minimum of 30 percent local value addition before any raw material is exported. Akpabio spoke on Wednesday when he received members of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC), led by Nnanyelugo Martin Ike-Muonso, the council’s director-general, at his office…
The police command in Niger says it has arrested three suspects, who posed as Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) operatives, abducted and robbed students of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) University, Lapai. A statement by the Command’s Spokesperson, SP Wasiu Abiodun, on Friday in Minna, indicated that two informants who aided and abetted the operation…
Finnish prosecutors on Friday said they had charged a man with inciting terrorism online who a media report identified as Nigerian separatist leader Simon Ekpa. Finland’s National Prosecution Authority said in a statement that it had charged “a Finnish individual in a case involving suspected public incitement to commit crimes with terrorist intent and participation…