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Why We’ll Miss Hon Adetoun Adediran, Lagos Speaker Obasa Mourns Ex-Lawmaker The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has described the demise of Hon. Adetoun Adediran, a former Deputy Speaker of the State as shocking. The late Adediran served as a member of the ...

  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. ...

  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 ...

  In a bid to receive honest feedback from Nigerians on the performance of his office in the last seven years, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has released his personal email to the public. Amaechi wants the citizens to assess his ministry’s efforts at revamping “dilapidated railway and moribund ...

  There is palpable tension in Imo State as the Imo state governor, Mr Hope Uzodimma, is expected to reveal sponsors of insecurity in the state today, Tuesday. Stakeholders have started arriving at the venue in Owerri to listen to the names the governor will call as people behind series ...

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN has disclosed that three bills pending before the National Assembly are geared towards ridding Nigeria of corrupt practices. The AGF revealed the pending bills while speaking on the activities of the Justice Sector in the year 2021 ...