Former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has described the death of his former deputy and successor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala as a huge loss to him. Ladoja, who is the Osi Olubadan, was impeached and removed as governor on January 12, 2006 and Alao-Akala was sworn in. But ...

  Dele Momodu, journalist and publisher of Ovation Magazine, has joined the 2023 presidential race, promising to fix the country. Momodu declared his interest on Thursday when he met with Ayorchia Ayu, chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), at the party headquarters in Abuja. The former presidential candidate of ...

  Terrorists known locally as bandits on Thursday stormed Plateau State Polytechnic Barkin Ladi Campus and abducted two female students. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that bandits and herdsmen have in the last 48 hours gone on rampage in Plateau state, killing people and kidnapping several persons. Recently, the terrorists kidnapped Dorcas, ...

NIGERIANS now have access to the services of social networking platform, Twitter, following the lift of the ban on its operations in the country. The Federal Government lifted the ban yesterday, thereby enabling the United States micro-blogging platform to recommence service by midnight (January 13). A statement by the Technical ...

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, commended the Super Eagles of Nigeria for a spectacular start at the ongoing 33rd Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Cameroon for defeating a formidable opponent, the Pharaohs of Egypt 1-0, in their group stage encounter. The governor described the victory of Eagles over Pharaohs ...

  The Federal Government has reportedly deactivated the biometric identification of the publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore. While the reason for the deactivation is yet to be made open, Naija News understands that Sowore’s documents allegedly deactivated include his national identity card, permanent voter card, international passport and driver license. ...

  Alao-Akala, a former Deputy Governor of Oyo State, is dead. Details of his death are sketchy but sources close to the politician confirmed it… The politician, who had been battling terminal ailment for a while, died in his Ogbomoso country home, on Wednesday morning, according to sources. A top ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a Dubai-based internet celebrity, Ismailia Mustapha, aka Mompha and his firm, Ismalob Global Investment Limited for alleged money laundering to the tune of over N6billion. The agency arraigned Mompha and Ismalob before Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja Special Offences ...

  Operatives of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on Monday stormed the head office of Peoples Gazette in Abuja, demanding to see the online newspaper’s managing editor, a reporter and bearing a letter that threatened “other options” should the journalists fail to cooperate with stipulation for the source of a ...

  The All Progressive Congress, APC, Abia State chapter, has accused some party leaders of working for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government in the state. The Publicity Secretary of the party in Abia State, Chief Okey Ezeala, revealed this in Umuahia, while reacting to attacks on the personality ...