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Massive turnout as David Abioye holds first service for new ministry
David Abioye, the former Vice President and retired pastor of Living Faith Church Worldwide, has officially inaugurated his new ministry, Living Word Conquerors Global Assembly. The inauguration took ...
4th May 2025
BREAKING: Tinubu to meet GenCos over N4tn power sector debt
President Bola Tinubu is expected to meet with the leadership of Nigeria’s power-generating companies as part of an emergency effort to address the N4tn debt threatening to cripple the country’s e...
4th May 2025
BREAKING: Missing Babcock student found, says mother
The mother of Oladipupo Siwajuola, a student at Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, Fijabi Oyindamola, has confirmed that her son has been found. In a Facebook post on Sunday afternoon, with ...
4th May 2025
I take responsibility for everything - Trump
Donald Trump said in a Sunday interview that the “good parts” of today’s US economy flow from his policies, while the bad can be blamed on his predecessor, Joe Biden, who “did ...
4th May 2025
Peter Obi's ally quits LP over Anambra primary election
A key ally of Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, Oseloka Obaze, has resigned his membership of the party. Obaze disclosed this in a letter addressed to LP Ch...
4th May 2025
How US Yoruba village sparked row between Alaafin, Ooni
Facts have emerged on the genesis of the brewing rift between the newly installed Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi. The seeming rift came to public attention...
4th May 2025
Fresh storm hits Wike-Fubara peace talks
The political feud between the suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, may have worsened following a dramatic walkout by wom...
4th May 2025
2027: PDP govs strike deal with Wike
Governors elected under the Peoples Democratic Party and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, may have agreed to make concessions to foster unity within the party ahead of the 2...
4th May 2025
Wike apologises to Tinubu after Rivers women walk out on first lady
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has condemned the action of a group of women loyal to suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, over their walkout on the First La...
3rd May 2025
$3bn refinery fraud: N80bn found in sacked MD’s bank accounts
P’Harcourt, Warri, Kaduna refineries’ MDs arrested Kyari, 13 senior ex-NNPCL officials face probe The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the recently sacked managing directors a...
3rd May 2025
NANS: Call your family to order, Atiku tells Tinubu
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, has called on President Bola Tinubu to rein in his family over an alleged attempt by his son, Seyi Tinubu, to influence...
2nd May 2025
May Day: Labour pushes for tax cut, pension overhaul in fresh 20-point demand
Organised Labour on Thursday presented a 20-point demand to the Federal Government as Nigerian workers commemorated the 2025 May Day at Eagles Square, Abuja and across the country. Among other things,...
2nd May 2025
[UPDATED] May Day: NLC demands 65-year retirement age for civil servants
The Nigeria Labour Congress on Thursday demanded an upward review of the retirement age for all categories of civil servants. The National President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero, made this demand during the...
1st May 2025May Day push: Labour demands wage review to ease cost-of-living crisis
•NASS to address workers’ concerns, Labour rejects N70k pay over rising inflation, others State chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have decried the condition of t...
1st May 2025
Ogun court jails Portable three months for assault
A Magistrate Court sitting in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, on Tuesday, sentenced controversial hip-hop artiste Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, to three months’ imprisonment...
30th April 2025
EFCC presents Aisha Achimugu in court after arrest
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission officers brought businesswoman Aisha Achimugu to the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, as ordered by the court. Achimugu, escorted by two female EFCC o...
30th April 2025
FG declares May 1 public holiday
The Federal Government has declared Thursday, May 1, 2025, as a public holiday to mark this year’s Workers’ Day Celebration. The government reiterated the need for peace to drive industrialisa...
29th April 2025
EFCC arrests socialite, E-Money for Naira abuse
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested a popular Lagos socialite, Emeka Okonkwo Daniel (a.k.a. E-Money), for allegedly abusing the Naira note. Our correspondent gathe...
29th April 2025
‘Where is Dad?’ Sunny Ade’s children battle over music icon’s whereabouts, well-being
Some children of the legendary juju musician, Sunday Adegeye, aka King Sunny Ade, are currently at loggerheads over his well-being and whereabouts. A daughter of the singer and guitarist, Damilola Est...
28th April 2025
Defections to APC not out of coercion but free will — Presidency
The Presidency on Sunday said the recent defections of politicians from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress were of their free will and not coercion from President Bola Tinub...
27th April 2025
FBI arrests 22 Nigerians in sextortion scheme linked to teen suicides
The FBI has arrested 22 Nigerians allegedly involved in a financially motivated sextortion scheme that has been blamed for more than 20 teen suicides in the United States since 2021, the agency announ...
26th April 2025
EFCC declares four wanted over CBEX crypto fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared four individuals wanted for their alleged involvement in a fraudulent scheme linked to an online trading platform known as Crypto Bridge Excha...
25th April 2025
Akpabio leads Nigerian delegation to Pope Francis’ funeral
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, is heading a high-level Nigerian delegation to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, in Vatican City on Saturday. This was disc...
25th April 2025
Those who want to leave PDP can do so now — Saraki
A former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has berated the recent high-profile defections from the Delta State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, while urging others who want to leave the party t...
24th April 2025
Court okays arrest, detention of six CBEX promoters
The Federal High Court in Abuja has approved the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to arrest and detain six promoters of Crypto Bridge Exchange over an alleged investment fraud a...
24th April 2025
Ibas, Oborevwori present as Shettima presides over NEC meeting
Vice President Kashim Shettima is presiding over the 149th meeting of the National Economic Council at the State House, Abuja. Thursday’s meeting, which has the Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice...
24th April 2025
Oborevwori, Okowa, others dump PDP for APC
Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, the immediate past governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, and all members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Delta State have defected to the All Progressives Congress. The...
23rd April 2025
AGF promises response to petition demanding ex-NNPCL boss Kyari’s probe
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has assured Nigerians that the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Lim...
23rd April 2025
Tinubu meets Fubara in London
President Bola Tinubu met with suspended Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, in London. The meeting, confirmed by The Africa Report, was held at the insistence of Governor Fubara, who assumed of...
22nd April 2025
UPDATED: Pope Francis' funeral holds Saturday - Vatican
The funeral of Pope Francis will take place on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square. This was according to a statement issued on Tuesday by the Holy See Press Office. Accord...
22nd April 2025
JUST IN: Tinubu returns to Abuja after UK, France trip
President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after a working visit and retreat in France and London lasting 18 days. The presidential 001 aircraft conveying the President landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe I...
21st April 2025
