BREAKING: FG Announces 30-Day Petrol Discount At NNPCL Stations

The Federal Government has announced plans to sell petrol at a discounted price at Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) filling stations for the next 30 days. Minister of Finance and Coordinating... Read more »

NSCDC Akwa Ibom Commandant Redeployed Amid Alleged Move To Backdate Officers’ Release Letters To Push Controversial Transfers

he Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Akwa Ibom State, Geraldine Sixtus Abetiambe, has been redeployed from the state command to the Corps’ Zonal Headquarters in Port... Read more »

Erring Parties Will Not Field Candidates Following Supreme Court Judgment – INEC Clarifies

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that political parties presenting candidates whose names were missing from official membership registers submitted to the commission will be barred from participating in the... Read more »

PHOTOS: FBI Raids Ghana Fraud Centre, Arrests 130 Suspects

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has raided a suspected fraud compound in Ghana and arrested more than 130 people. The FBI Director, Kash Patel, disclosed this in a post shared on his... Read more »

Asaba Massacre: Remembering My Aunt’s Husband, Elijah Ojogwu

By Paul Nwosu PhD Every October 5–7, we remember the Asaba Massacre of 1967, one of the darkest tragedies of the Nigerian Civil War, when hundreds of Ndi Ahaba were murdered by... Read more »

Kano Sports Commission Secretary, Bashir Maizare, Dies

The Kano State sports community has been thrown into mourning following the death of the Secretary of the Kano State Sports Commission, Bashir Maizare. Maizare died on Wednesday night, the commission announced... Read more »

‘We Paid 3 Million, 6 Million To Secure Kidnapped NYSC Members’ – Family

Families of some of the 20 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) prospective members rescued in Imo State have said they paid millions of naira in ransom before receiving news of their release.... Read more »

Facebook User Sentenced To Death Over Comment On Prophet Muhammad [Photo]

A 24-year-old Sri Lankan migrant worker, Anojan Sivarasa, is facing execution in Saudi Arabia after an appellate court reportedly sentenced him to death over a Facebook comment considered blasphemous. According to the... Read more »

NAF Gives Update On Helicopter That Landed In Benue Farmland

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has said its helicopter that landed on a farmland in Makurdi, Benue State, was returning from an operation against suspected kidnappers near the Enugu-Benue boundary. Gists9ja earlier... Read more »

BREAKING: 6.3-magnitude Earthquake Hits Vanuatu

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The USGS said the shallow earthquake occurred approximately 110 kilometres east of Luganville,... Read more »

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