For the next six weeks, millions of football fans across the globe would be glued to their television sets at home and in sports bars, etc., and to streaming devices to watch another quadrennial contest of the beautiful game, organised…

The first thing that hits visitors to the Oja Agbe Market in Ifo, Ogun State, is the suffocating stench from a towering dumpsite that looms over traders, buyers and residents. As residents and traders raise fears of food contamination, recurrent…

In late 2025, residents of Bille, a riverine community in Rivers State, woke up to an unsettling sight and smell. From abandoned mono pumps and long-forgotten shallow wells, gas suddenly started bubbling to the surface, pushing through ageing pipes buried…

Nigeria’s domestic gas market recorded a significant increase in sales, rising by about 30 per cent between January 2022 and January 2025, driven by reforms under the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 and recent executive orders by President Bola Tinubu, according…

Oluwatobi Oyewo is the youngest of the five sons of legendary actor, scholar and cultural icon, Kola Oyewo, who died on Friday aged 80. In this interview with WALE AKINSELURE, Oluwatobi recounts his father’s final moments and values that defined…

The Federal Government spent N57.78bn on security-related projects and operations in the first four months of 2026, despite worsening insecurity across the country, with no fewer than 98 criminal incidents including 51 attacks and abductions recorded nationwide in just one…

The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has defended the Federal Government’s investment in road infrastructure, describing President Bola Tinubu’s four legacy highway projects as strategic economic corridors designed to transform agriculture, trade and industrial development across the country. Umahi also…

The Ogun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Sunday unveiled Alhaja Kudirat Adegunwa-Balogun, a Chartered Accountant and daughter of industrialist, Alhaji Adebola Adegunwa, as the deputy governorship candidate of the party and running mate to its 2027 governorship…

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a constitutional amendment bill seeking the establishment of state police, paving the way for the creation of a decentralised policing system in Nigeria. The proposed amendment seeks to alter the 1999 Constitution to…

A woman who went shopping on Sunday at the popular Vegetable Market, off Airport Road in Benin City, has reportedly been abducted. The woman was at the market with her children and husband when gunmen reportedly came to the scene…

Journalist and former senator Babafemi Ojudu has criticised the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, after a viral video showed her dancing with Nigerian inmates during a recent visit to a prison in Ethiopia. Mr Ojudu, who represented Ekiti Central…

Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has called on the state police command to probe the assassination attempt alleged by the Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Oyetunji, with a view to bringing to justice those responsible. This was…

African delegates attending seminars in China have condemned xenophobic attacks against foreign African nationals in South Africa and called for greater unity across the continent. The delegates responded to the ongoing black-on-black violence while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines…

The Prayer and Support for the Nigerian Armed Forces and Other Security Agencies has expressed deep sorrow over the death of former Director of Defence Information, Major General Rabe Abubakar (retd), who reportedly died while in the custody of kidnappers…

The Governing Council of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam, Anambra State, has dismissed five staff members over alleged sexual abuse, harassment, intimidation, extortion, and other forms of misconduct. The university’s Public Relations Officer, Harrison Madubueze, disclosed this in a…