Month: July 2024

The Plateau State House of Assembly has promised to make new laws that would address the menace of building collapse in the state. The state government confirmed 22 deaths and 154 injuries at The Saint […]

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun has congratulated literary icon Wole Soyinka as he clocks 90, describing him as a voice for social justice and human rights. Mr Abiodun, in a statement by his chief press […]

The Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has commiserated with the bereaved families in Plateau state. He described the tragic incident of the collapse of a school building in Jos […]

Troops of the Nigerian Army (NA) have reportedly rescued 57 kidnap victims from terrorists in Sambisa forest, Bama LGA of Borno. Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, said the operation […]

A curfew has been imposed in the restive Tillaberi region of Niger Republic after a mass prison break at the high-security Koutoukale prison, approximately 50 kilometres northwest of the capital, Niamey. The incident occurred on […]

The Benue government has approved the establishment of the Bureau of Homeland Security to coordinate and liaise with the office of the governor and security agencies. Governor Hyacient Alia of Benue disclosed this on Friday […]

President Bola Tinubu has renamed the National Theatre, Iganmu, Surulere, Lagos, as the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts. Mr Tinubu disclosed this in a tribute written and signed by him on […]

A chief magistrates’ court in Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday, ordered that a 43-year-old man, Friday Abu, be remanded in a corrections centre for allegedly defiling his 15-year-old niece. The police charged Mr Abu with defilement. […]

The police command in Rivers has arrested 14 suspects who disguise themselves as tricycle and taxi drivers, popularly known as “one chance,” to rob passengers of their belongings. The command’s spokesperson, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, told […]