The 2023 governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, has boasted that the Labour Party would not only win but take over power in Lagos in 2027. Rhodes-Vivour, who made the boast while fielding questions from newsmen in Umuahia, Abia state capital, where he attended an extended Stakeholders’ meeting of the…
President Bola Tinubu has sent condolence message to the management of Federal University Lokoja over tragic road accident that claimed lives of five students. Asefon Sunday Dayo, the Senior Special Assistant to President on Students Engagement disclosed Mr President condolence message in a press release sighted by our correspondent. Asefon said Mr President is grieving…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has claimed that a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, turned against President Bola Tinubu after he was allegedly overlooked for the position of vice president. “When Mr President chose his vice-presidential candidate, I was one of those Babachir Lawal…
The Federal Government, through the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (PCNGi), will begin the distribution of 2,000 CNG-powered tricycles to youths in the transportation sector across Nigeria starting October 1st, 2024. The initiative aims to distribute 2,000 CNG-powered tricycles to youths in the transportation sector across the country, as part of efforts to address rising…
Troops of the Nigerian military eliminated no fewer than 135 terrorists, apprehended 185 suspects, and rescued 129 kidnapped hostages through well-executed operations across the country in the last week. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, made this known in the Defence Headquarters weekly update on the operations of the military on…
The Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has filed a petition against Senate President Godswill Akpabio and businesswoman Sandra Duru before the Attorney General of the Federation and the Inspector General of Police. In petitions dated May 15, 2025, and signed by her lawyer, Senator Ehiogie West-Idahosa (SAN), Akpoti-Uduaghan accused both Akpabio and Duru of…
A tragic incident has occurred in the Aji community of Enugu-Ezike, located in Igbo Eze North Local Government Area, Enugu State. A woman, whose identity remains unknown, is alleged to have killed her younger sister using a cutlass. Reports also indicate that she attempted to harm both her mother and her younger sister’s child. While…
The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Students Engagement, Hon. Comrade Asefon Sunday Dayo has lauded Mr President over allocation of N3.5 trillion to the education sector in the 2025 budget. GISTSMATE MEDIA reported that security and defence, infrastructure, health and education were some of the sectors with high allocations in the N47.9tn…
The International Organisation for Migration says two Nigerians were rescued, while two others died after a vessel carrying 49 people capsized in the Mediterranean Sea. The IOM said 42 people are missing and presumed dead, while seven survivors were rescued following a shipwreck off the coast of Libya — the latest fatal incident in the…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, says he has no regret for supporting President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 general elections. Prior to his ministerial appointment, he governed the oil-rich Rivers State for eight years under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He was later called by Tinubu to serve as FCT…