President Bola Tinubu is set to celebrate exceptional youth on Tuesday, as no fewer than 210 outstanding corps members will receive the prestigious President’s National Youth Service Corps Honours Award for their dedicated service between 2020 and 2023. The anticipated ceremony recognises the commitment and impactful contributions of Nigeria’s youth. The Director of Media, NYSC,…
The Secretary of the Alesa community stakeholders, Timothy Mgbere, has alleged that the petroleum products loaded from the newly rehabilitated Port-Harcourt Refinery were not freshly refined but products left in the storage tank of the facility in the last three years. He also alleged that the refinery only loaded six trucks on Tuesday despite stating…
A dramatic altercation unfolded in the Turkish Parliament on Friday as a heated debate over the detention of an opposition delegate descended into physical violence. The brawl erupted when Ahmet Sik, a representative from the same party as the jailed deputy, was attacked by a member of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party during a…
Five students of the Osun State University, Osogbo, have died, while five others sustained injuries in a tragic accident along the Ife-Ibadan Expressway. The university management confirmed this in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Ademola Adesoji, and obtained in Osogbo on Monday. According to Adesoji, reports from the Nigeria Police and the…
Activist Martin Otse well known as VeryDarkMan (VDM) is currently leading a candlelight procession in honour of the late Fish Magnet CEO, Ifesinachi Onyekere, who his abductors killed. VDM announced his arrival in Anambra State for the procession in a video posted on his Instagram page on Sunday, following a wave of outrage over Mr…
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…
A Chief Magistrate Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan, has ordered the remand of three key figures in connection with last week’s tragic stampede at Bashorun Islamic High School. The individuals include the school’s principal, Mr. Abdullahi Fasasi; the proprietor of Agidigbo FM, Alhaji Oriyomi Hamzat; and Naomi Silekunola, the estranged wife of Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi,…
Moscow on Saturday launched a “counter-terror operation” in three border regions adjoining Ukraine to halt Kyiv’s biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict. Ukrainian units stormed across the border into Russia’s western Kursk region on Tuesday morning in a shock attack and have advanced several kilometres, according to independent analysts. Russia has deployed additional troops…
Former Governor of Abia State and the lawmaker representing Abia North in the Senate, Orji Kalu, has revealed that he earns N14 million monthly as a member of the National Assembly. The former Senate Chief Whip made the revelation during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday. Kalu argued that the N14 million…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cleared only two political associations — the African Alliance Party (AAP) and the Democratic Leadership Alliance (DLA) — for the final stage of political party registration. In June 2025, INEC announced that it had received letters of intent from 110 associations seeking registration as political parties. By early…
