The Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, has approved the appointment of AIG Yetunde Longe as Force Secretary, a top office in the Nigeria Police system. With this appointment, Longe has become the only woman police officer in…
The Nigerian Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, has lamented that health systems remain weak in many developing countries like Nigeria partly because they continue to lose their trained health professionals to developed countries that did not invest…
5 hours ago The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has named the Southern Parkway, from the National Christian Centre to Ring Road I (Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway), after President Bola Tinubu. Wike announced the honour during…
The youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, singer Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 on Tuesday announced their highly anticipated North American tour for 2024, presented by Django Music. The band’s latest tour was in 2022 to promote the EP…
The President of Ghana – His Excellency Nana Akufo Addo, has met with climate and sustainability advocate Ismachiah Oduwole, the 14 year old US teenager who began an unusual journey in December 2022 during the FIFA World Cup in Qatar,…
The Senate on Tuesday passed the bill seeking to revert to Nigeria’s old national anthem. The bill seeks to replace the current anthem with the former one adopted at independence on October 1, 1960 but dropped in 1978 by the…
The House of Representatives Committee on Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has directed First Bank of Nigeria and other Banks to appear before it alongside its Tax Consultant to reconcile the Education Tax Computation not remitted to TETFund by the…
On Tuesday, 29 April, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced the appointment of former Super Eagles forward Finidi George as the new head coach of the senior national football team. He succeeded Jose Peseiro, who took the team to the…
An anti-corruption bill for the establishment of the Kogi State Anti-corruption Agency has passed through second reading in the state house of assembly. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports in Lokoja on Tuesday that the bill was being sponsored…
The Senate has recalled Abdul Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central) who was suspended for accusing its leadership of fraudulently smuggling projects into the 2024 budget. The upper chamber announced Mr Ningi’s recall after it resumed from a close-door session which lasted…