PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Tuesday returned to Abuja after attending the inauguration of the 267th Pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, in Rome, Italy. The President who arrived at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 6.50 p.m. was received by senior government officials. The President had attended …

Make Music Nigeria, Nigeria’s most prominent music advocate group has officially kicked off its 10th edition celebrations with a high-energy kickoff event, the Battle of the Bands. The event which held on Saturday May 10th in partnership with the Alliance Francaise de Lagos, a long-standing cultural partner and three-time event …

FORMER United States President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, his office confirmed on Sunday. Biden, 82, underwent medical evaluation last week after experiencing urinary symptoms and the discovery of a prostate nodule. Doctors confirmed on Friday that the cancer had spread to his …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved a limited aid flow into Gaza following a massive backlash from the international community on Sunday evening. In a statement confirming the decision, the PMO said it was being done “at the recommendation of the IDF and due to the operational need to …

PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu has granted approval for the issuance of all critical regulatory licences for the Kolmani Integrated Development Projects. The project is located between Bauchi and Gombe States, where the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) said oil search would resume. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources …

THE Kogi State Accountant-General, Habiba Onumoko, has been accused of using the police to arrest and detain a critic, one Sadiq Abdulhameed, for about three months without trial. A report by SaharaReporters quoted sources to have said that Onumoko should be cautioned over her persistent abuse of power, evident again …

Mrs Eunice Bright Ekwok, who accused an Abuja-based medical doctor of stealing one of her twins during birth in his hospital, has said the doctor had initially admitted to the crime secretly to her but begged her not to let the outside world know about it on the first day …

THE Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, has ordered the immediate redeployment of five judges in various divisions of the court. The move comes just weeks after the National Judicial Council (NJC) sanctioned several judges for various acts of judicial misconduct. According to a statement released …

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a 29-year-old Ismail Isah with an AK-47 rifle and two magazines concealed in a sack of maize. A statement by Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy on Sunday in Abuja stated that NDLEA operatives on patrol along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway …

THE National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Ogun Command, says it has sensitised 21, 792 pupils on human trafficking and its menace in the state within two months. The Commander, NAPTIP Ogun , Mrs Abosede Jimoh, who was the leader of the  campaign in the schools, …