The campaign team of Seyi Tinubu has launched a biopic on the president’s son in preparation for his 2027 governorship ambition in Lagos state. A documentary of the younger Tinubu has been making the rounds on various social media platforms, over the weekend. The video highlights the president’s son’s biography, focusing on his education, career,…
The Rivers State Police Command has announced its withdrawal from the upcoming local government election, slated for October 5. This decision follows a Federal High Court judgment, which barred the police and other security agencies from participating in the polls. The court’s ruling, delivered on September 30, 2024, is the latest development in a series…
Mr Solomon Selcap Dalung a former Minister of Youth and Sports during the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Dalung, in this interview, undertakes an assessment of the last two years under President Bola Tinubu, looking at the various indices of development, and submits that the president has performed poorly and would face the wrath of poor Nigerians…
The National Examinations Council has granted accreditation to schools in Burkina Faso to host its examinations, widening its international footprint. This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday by the council’s Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, Azeez Sani. Sani said the council would now begin to conduct the…
Former Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has hit back at the Osun State governor, Senator Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke, over his comment describing former governor Aregbesola’s eight-year tenure as ‘worst in the history’ of the state. In what appears as a ‘tit-for-tat’ response, the former minister described the attack as unfortunate just to curry favour…
A bill seeking to strip the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission(ICPC) and other anti-graft agencies of the power to manage proceeds of crime has passed second reading in the Senate. The bill, titled the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act Amendment Bill, seeks to create a…
A Nigerian clinical associate professor of medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dr. Bolu Ogunyemi, has been elected as the Canadian Medical Association’s (CMA) president-elect. According to a statement ofmn the Association’s website, Dr. Ogunyemi, a practicing medical dermatologist in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and a visiting specialist in Labrador City since 2018, won the election…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said that 20 chairmanship aspirants in Kano State have tested positive for multiple drugs during screening for the upcoming local government elections. NDLEA’s Commander in the state, Abubakar Idris Ahmad, said the aspirants presented by the ruling NNPP in the state tested positive for substances including opioids,…
Amid the defection wave to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo, the party’s presidential candidate in 2023, has announced his 2027 presidential ambition. Adewole, speaking on Arise Television’s ‘The Morning Show’ on Friday, March 14, 2025, expressed confidence that, regardless of the political stature of politicians defecting to the party, he would be their…
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abass has dissolved an ad hoc committee investigating the oil and gas sector and the rift between Dangote Refinery and sector players/NMDPRA. The committee, was among other things, tasked with investigating the importation of adulterated petroleum products, the non-availability of crude oil for domestic refineries. In a…
