A fire outbreak at an Islamiya school in Kaura-Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State has claimed 17 lives. All the victims were said to be Almajiri students who were burnt beyond recognition while their charred bodies littered the building. Eyewitnesses say the fire started late on Tuesday night and raged for about three hours,…
President Bola Tinubu has increased the proposed budget size for 2025 from N49.7 trllion, which he presented to the joint session of the National Assembly in December to N54.2 trillion . President Tinubu announced an increase in the proposed budget size through separate letters forwarded to both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The…
President Bola Tinubu has approved an increase in the retirement age for doctors and other healthcare workers from 60 to 65 years. The National Publicity Secretary, Nigerian Medical Association, Dr Mannir Bature, disclosed in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos. Bature said the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate, has been…
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, yesterday, told stakeholders in the oil and gas industry to work collectively to ensure that President Bola Tinubu’s mandate on the attainment of 2.5 million barrels per day (mbpd) oil production was achieved in the Niger Delta.Musa spoke at a meeting with stakeholders in the country’s oil…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the issuance of a N758 billion bond to offset outstanding pension liabilities for all categories of federal pensioners.The approval granted yesterday, on the second day of the FEC meeting at State House, Abuja, will allow the Debt Management Office (DMO) to raise funds needed to settle pension arrears…
Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Tems won her first individual Grammy award on Sunday at the 67th Recording Academy Awards with her love track, Love Me Jeje. Tems beats her Nigerian Afrobeats compatriots, Burna Boy, Asake, Wizkid, Yemi Alade and the Davido and Lojay assisted ‘Sensational’ by Chris Brown to win the second Grammy in the Best…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Forum rose from its first 2025 monthly meeting held in Asaba, Delta State capital, on Friday, with a resolution backing the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which pronounced the former National Youth Leader of the party, Hon. S.K.E Udeh-Okoye, as the authentic National Secretary of the PDP and…
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Wednesday declared it would embark on a nationwide protest against the proposed 50 per cent telecom tariff hike announced by the Nigerian Communications Commission on February 4 in a communiqué signed by its National President, Joe Ajaero. The decision was taken at the National Administrative Council meeting of the NLC…
A two-storey building under construction has reportedly collapsed in the Ikota area of Ajah, Lagos, resulting in yet-to-be-determined deaths. The incident occurred at Mega Mall Estate, Mobile Road, Inikpa Villa, Ikota. The National Emergency Management Agency confirmed the collapse, with the Lagos Office Coordinator, Ibrahim Farinloye, stating that the cause remains unknown. “Information indicates that…
Following the intervention of the Ooni of Ife, Oba AdeyeyeOgunwusi, the Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Adejugbe, and other prominent traditional rulers, the founder of AfeBabalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), AfeBabalola (SAN), has dropped his criminal suits against human rights activist, Dele Farotimi. Babalola disclosed this at a press conference jointly addressed by himself and Ogunwusi…
