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  Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has appointed his son, Babajide Akeredolu, as the new Director General of the Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit, Governor’s Office (PPIMU). This was announced in a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo, on Tuesday. Ojogo added that the ...

  The Chief of Defense Staff, General Lucky Irabor, has faulted the procedure adopted in the release of the report of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution For Victims Of SARS Related Abuses and Other Matters. Speaking after a courtesy visit to Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, ...

  Popular Instagram comedian, Ahmed Gafar, known as The Cute Abiola has been declared missing.   This was made known by a fellow comedian, Mr Macaroni on Tuesday evening.   Mr Macaroni shared the news on Twitter and also attached a Whatsapp message he received. From the message, it was ...

Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani has reacted to the findings and conclusion of the Lagos State judicial panel on police brutality cases and the shooting of protesters at Lekki toll gate. Naija News had reported earlier that the panel Chairperson, Justice Doris Okuwobi (rtd) delivered two reports to Governor ...

  The Nigerian Government has denied abandoning one Itunu Babalola from Oyo State to die in a prison in Cote d’Ivoire. It also called for full investigation into the circumstances leading to her death. Reports of her demise went viral on Monday and Nigerians took to Twitter to vent their ...

  The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has claimed that the foreign rice smuggled into the Nigerian market is not good for human consumption. Ahmad made the claim during a recent interview monitored by THE WHISTLER. The minister while commenting on the gains of the ...

  Nigerian businessman and multi-investor, Sani Dangote has been confirmed dead. Reports reaching Naija News at this time confirmed that the younger brother of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote died after battling a terminal disease. It was gathered that the Vice President of Dangote Group and a two-time President of ...

Senator Ali Ndume (APC-Borno South) has revealed that fighters of the Islamic State in West Africa Province, ISWAP, rammed a bomb-laddened car into the convoy of Brig-Gen. Dzarma Zirkusu. Naija News had earlier reported that Brigadier-General Dzarma Zirkusu, a Commander of the Army’s Special Forces was killed by ISWAP terrorists ...

Sudan’s army commander General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has created a new ruling sovereign council with lawmakers from the main bloc seeking a transfer to civilian authority excluded. According to state media, al-Burhan will continue to chair the council while Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, chief of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, will ...

  The Enugu State Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has assured Mrs. Augustina Ifebuchechukwu Eze, whose seven-year-old son was allegedly killed by her husband, Chidi Onyishi, for money ritual that the state government will do everything within its power to ensure that she and her children do not suffer. Speaking when he ...