Viewers who watched President Muhammadu Buhari’s interview on Wednesday must have been bemused after the president gave two contradictory responses about his preferred candidate for 2023 presidential election. Buhari spoke about the economy, insecurity, his reservations about the recently signed 2022 budget and his refusal to give assent to ...

  Scores of students of the University of Ibadan have fled their private hostels located at Agbowo area and other adjoining streets due to the invasion of the hostels by armed robbers. Armed hoodlums who were said to have distributed themselves into groups of about 12 each reportedly invaded the ...

  The much anticipated 2022 Grammy Awards has been postponed due to the recent surge in the spread of the new variant of COVID-19 disease across the cities. The music awards gala night had been scheduled for January 31, however, the recent widespread of the Omicron variant across United States ...

  The federal government has released the official gazette categorizing bandits as terrorists. A federal high court sitting in Abuja had on November 26 proscribed Yan Bindiga and Yan Ta’adda bandit groups and subsequently declared their activities as acts of terrorism. THE WHISTLER reported that Justice Taiwo Taiwo, presiding judge, ...

  Rivers State Police Command has disclosed that the organisers of the music concert held in Buguma, Asari-Toru Local Government Area, Rivers State, which was disrupted when a popular Nigerian artist, Teniola Akpata, popularly known as Teni, was performing last week did not apply for security prior to the event. ...

  Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed and CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele The Minister of Finance, Budget and National planning, Zainab Ahmed, has revealed that Nigeria’s inflation rate will remain at double digit in 2022. Zainab disclosed the development on Wednesday at the Public Presentation and Breakdown ...

  The Federal Government has imposed a N10 per liter excise duty tax on all non-alcoholic, carbonated and sweetened beverages. The excise duty tax is one of the amendments made in the Finance Act 2022 which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 31 last year. The ...

  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has cautioned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) stating that the move to ban the singing of the Nigerian National Anthem and the consumption of northern cows in the south-east region might be counter-productive. A statement on Wednesday by the Ohanaeze Secretary-General, ...

  Popular Yoruba movie actress, Kemi Afolabi was injured by robbers at Arepo, Ogun State along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.   It was gathered that the actress was attacked by cutlass wielding robbers on Tuesday night while she was returning home from a movie shoot.   In a post on Instagram, ...

A mother of three set her house on fire, killing herself and two of her children aged 4 and 2 years in Kenya. The incident happened in Sirende Village in Lugari Sub-County, Kakamega County, on New Year’s day, January 1, 2022, after she accused her husband of cheating on her ...