Over 1,000 Islamic clerics ask Tinubu to drop 2027 re-election bid
More than 1,000 Islamic clerics have urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to abandon his plan to seek re-election in the...
Read moreDetailsMore than 1,000 Islamic clerics have urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to abandon his plan to seek re-election in the...
Read moreDetailsPope Leo XIV is expected to be admitted to hospital today for surgery to remove a nodule from his lung,...
Read moreDetails*Introduces verification system The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has introduced a device verification system requiring new communications devices brought into Nigeria...
Read moreDetailsNigeria recorded the world’s largest increase in multidimensional poverty between 2021 and 2024, with an additional 17.9 million people falling...
Read moreDetailsBy Rex Buchi Akwolu Esq There are places that are more than brick and mortar. They are living testaments to...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu As Nigeria marked 66 years of independence this past week, the Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, Jarrett Tenebe, turned prayerful. Mr. Tenebe is not priest, pastor, or Imam. He claims to be a professional politician. Ordinarily, that should mean that he is interested in votes and in voters. But those do not apparently concern him. There is a context to Mr. Tenebe’s public induction into the Prayer Warriors’ Hall of Fame. The governor of Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, has repeatedly and with increasing vigour promised a haul of 2.5 million votes from Edo State for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 presidential elections. He is that exact. So, on Independence Day, Jarrett Tenebe turned to prayers to underscore that promise as not negotiable. He did not pray for powers of persuasion or performance to convince the voters of Edo State. Instead, his prayers were for "those who do not wish (Edo APC) well" in its pursuit of the governor’s promise. “So, anybody who refuses”, he continued, “who wants to stand in our way, for us not to have those votes that we intend to give to Mr. President, AK-47 fire.” ...
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) says there is need for a sustained capacity building in competition reporting and...
By Sam Otuonye The Emir of Zazzau, His Royal Highness, Ambassador Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli, has called for a sustained efficiency...
The Federal Government has alerted residents in 24 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to possible flooding between September...
The Mayor of Awka South Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra state, Prince Chinedu Okafor, has confirmed the recovery of...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles have dropped four places to 30th in the latest FIFA men’s world ranking released on Wednesday. The...
Brazil has officially entered a new chapter after handing their famous No. 10 shirt to Barcelona forward Raphinha following the end...
Lionel Messi stood behind Cristian Romero, both hands resting on the defender’s shoulders, as Romero sat with Argentina’s captain’s armband on...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has commenced urgent rehabilitation works on Towers J4 and N9 to N12 along the...
By Daily Trust Editorial The latest revelations on the abuse of constituency projects have exposed, in painful detail, how Nigeria’s...
A senior and veteran lawyer, Amobi Nzelu, the Principal Partner at Chinenye Chambers, spoke extensively on Nigeria’s judiciary, political leadership,...
Franklin Chikeluba Nebife, popularly known as Mayor is the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Embassy Furniture Company and currently serves...
By Ike Abonyi In many of Prof. Chinua Achebe's novels, he used proverbs to deepen his message; for instance, "having...
1. Preamble The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in partnership with Swedfund and Ookla, convened the Nigeria Digital Connectivity Investment Forum,...
By Sonny Aragba-Akpore An ambitious 90,000 km optic fiber network is in the offing by the government of Nigeria. When...
By Lawan Musa Danlami (Baba Lawan) September 14,2026 "How Ibraheem Sulaiman’s 1982 lecture on colonialism, economic exploitation and political power speaks...
Former Governor of Imo State, Sen. Rochas Okorocha, has been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police Force on Monday,...
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