Former Chelsea striker, Diego Costa’s move to Wolverhampton Wanderers has suffered a setback after the Spanish international was denied work permit due to his insufficient appearances on the international scene. The Spanish striker last played a competitive match in Decemeber 2021 and that has proved to be a disadvantage in …

British actor, producer, and musician, Idrissa Akuna Elba, has turned 50 on Tuesday. The actor’s birthday was made known through social media platforms as congratulatory messages pour in. Idris who is always known to make a dramatic entrance in his movies got his career breakthrough on the HBO crime drama …

A coalition of North-East and North Central stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has enjoined the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), to urgently revisit the choice of Senator Kashim Shettima as the party’s vice-presidential candidate. Dauda Yakubu, the Secretary-General of the coalition, while briefing newsmen in Abuja on Monday, …

A senior lecturer at the University of Calabar (names withheld) who, like many of his colleagues, is affected by the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has resorted to driving taxi. The strike started in February 2022 and negotiations between both the Federal Government and the …

The camp of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday declared that moves to force the PDP national chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, to resign before the 2023 presidential election is dead on arrival. This was disclosed by the spokesman of the Atiku Campaign Organisation, Senator Dino Melaye, …

The federal government yesterday certified Nigeria safe, assuring that terrorists, bandits and their cohorts would never hold Nigerians to ransom again. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, gave the country’s security a clean bill of health at a joint press briefing in Abuja with three of his counterparts: the …

No fewer than 183 Nigerians have died from Lassa Fever and Yellow Fever as cases of the two diseases have risen to 7, 650 in the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC’s) Lassa Fever Situation Report showed that …

The federal government has announced an immediate suspension of the five per cent excise duty it planned to impose on telecommunications services in 2022 even as it set up a committee chaired by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, to review the policy immediately. Pantami, who …

A High Court sitting in Kaduna will tomorrow resume hearing in the suit brought before it by a senatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ibrahim Haliru Auchen, challenging the emergence of Sen Abdul Suleimnan Kwari, as the party’s senatorial candidate in the Kaduna North senatorial district, Zone A, …

Deputy national leader of the Labour Party, Comrade Ladi Liya, has said the large followership garnered by the party shows the impact the party has made in the country ahead of the 2023 election. Liya made the declaration during the unveiling and presentation of certificate of return to the Kebbi …