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  I didn’t hate Buhari, Ortom defends stance on Benue insecurity   Olugbenga Ige   A former Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has dismissed claims that he hated the late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari over his government’s handling of the security in the North Central state.   The chieftain of ...

  The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a new set of immigration-related fees following the implementation of the H.R. 1 Reconciliation Bill, with changes set to take effect from July 22, 2025.   According to a Federal Register Notice issued on July 18, 2025, applications postmarked on ...

  The Chairman of Kudan Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Dauda Abba, has proposed a requirement for would-be couples to present the Kaduna State Contributory Health Management Authority enrollment card before getting married.   Ensuring this, he said, would increase enrollment into the scheme.   Abba made the proposal ...

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who became a household name as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died at age 54 after an accidental drowning off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, officials and multiple news sources report. Malcolm-Jamal Warner at the Deadline Contenders Television event at Directors Guild Of America on April ...

NASRE Calls On Don Jazzy, D’Banj, P-Square, K1, Pasuma To Assist Late Peter Thomas’ Family The Nigerian Association of Social and Resourceful Editors (NASRE) has once again demonstrated compassion and solidarity by reaching out to the family of the late veteran entertainment journalist, Peter Thomas, popularly known as The Groove ...

  The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ekiti State Command, has arrested and arraigned a suspect, Abigail Timothy, over an alleged ₦159 million visa fraud.   The command’s Public Relations Officer, Tolulope Afolabi, said the suspect was taken into custody and charged following allegations of defrauding one Pastor Adewusi ...

  The Corporate Affairs Commission has said its newly deployed Artificial Intelligence-driven registration platform, the Intelligent Companies Registration Portal, now handles over 11,000 company registration and compliance cases daily.   According to the commission, the portal recently processed 8,000 name reservation requests in a single day.   It noted that ...

  The former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, has called on President Bola Tinubu to caution state governors over what he described as undemocratic restrictions on the constitutional rights of citizens.   Metuh made the call in a Facebook post on Sunday, reacting to the ...

  The Edo State Government on Sunday said that Governor Monday Okpebholo’s warning that the Labour Party’s Presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, should get security clearance before coming to the state, should not be misconstrued as a threat.   On July 18, the governor said that ...

  A Peoples Democratic Party governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Emmanuel Fayose, has expressed concern over the deplorable state of federal roads in the state, urging the government to urgently intervene.   Fayose lamented that the poor condition of the roads has caused untold hardship, exposing motorists and travellers to ...