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Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, has endorsed Godswill Akpabio and Barau Jibrin for the positions of senate president and deputy. Akpabio, a former minister of Niger Delta affairs, and Jibrin, senator representing Kano north, have been nominated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the senate leadership positions. Speaking while hosting […]

Hilda Bassey Effiong, the Nigerian chef fondly called Hilda Baci, has broken the Guinness World Record (GWR) for the longest cooking marathon by an individual. Source: Top Stories

The federal government says 160 women claiming to be Nigerians in war-torn Sudan have no passports to fly back to the country. In a press briefing on Sunday, Mustapha Ahmed, director general of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said the agency was being careful not to evacuate non-Nigerians. Ahmed said the […]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has urged Nigerians to project the country’s image in good light and push narratives of aspirations, dreams and hopes. In a statement, Laolu Akande, Osinbajo’s spokesperson, said the vice-president spoke in Abuja at the formal presentation of a book written by Arukaino Umukoro, a Nigerian journalist. The book is […]

Hadiza Bala-Usman, former managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), says she wrote “Stepping on Toes”, her recent memoir, to clear her name.  Speaking during a book reading session at Roving Heights in Lagos, Bala-Usman said she needed to “clear the falsehoods” peddled against her. President Muhammadu Buhari had in 2021 […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested two businessmen for drug trafficking. In a statement on Sunday, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, said the suspects — 49-year-old Onoh Ebere and 47-year-old Christian Ogbuji — excreted 193 pellets of cocaine after three days in the custody of the agency. Babafemi […]

Solomon Arase, chairperson of the Police Service Commission (PSC), says Seun Kuti, the Afrobeat singer, must be prosecuted over an assault on a police officer in Lagos state. On Saturday, a now-viral footage surfaced on social media showing Kuti slapping a uniformed policeman. In the video, Kuti can be seen charging at […]

The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) says about 80 officers have gone on trial over the collection of illegal fees for the issuance and renewal of passports. Speaking with NAN on Sunday, Tony Akuneme, NIS spokesperson, said eight officers have been dismissed in connection to the offence in the last year. He said […]