The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has declared that Nigerians need “light, not lies,” as it condemned the recent claim by Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, that 150 million Nigerians now enjoy adequate electricity with just 5,500 megawatts. According to a statement released on Wednesday by NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, the union described the minister’s…

Korede Abdullah in Lagos President Bola Tinubu met with the service chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police at his official residence in Abuja to discuss the rising killings in Plateau, Benue, and other parts of the country. The meeting, which began at 3:00 p.m., confirms an earlier report about plans by the President to review…

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a fake land vendor,  Nwobo Williams Chibuike in Abuja. Commission’s Head, Media & Publicity, Dele Oyewale in a statement he shared with the media on Wednesday, said, “He was arrested for allegedly defrauding members of the public through offers of fake plots of land…

Korede Abdullah in Lagos Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has applauded former vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, for his public endorsement of President Bola Tinubu. In a statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka on Wednesday, Wike described…

A startling new health crisis is emerging from Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta: petroleum is now being found in human bloodstreams. The Executive Director of the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, (Centre LSD), Dr. Otive Igbuzor, raises the alarm during a policy briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, revealing that every woman tested in a…

A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has sentenced one Tobor Efeturi Godspower to eight years imprisonment for impersonating a foreign military officer and possession of fraudulent documents. According to a statement released on Tuesday, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, Godspower was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2…

Korede Abdullah in Lagos The Vatican had announced that Pope Francis’s funeral will be held Saturday at 10:00 am in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday, drawing world leaders including Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, and Volodymyr Zelensky. His body will lie in state beginning Wednesday before being interred at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore —…

As Nigeria intensifies its national immunisation campaign, the federal government is shifting focus to underserved and high-risk communities, reaching over 61.5 million people including millions of children with life-saving vaccines since October 2023. Speaking during a press briefing on Tuesday in Abuja to mark the 2025 African Vaccination Week, Executive Director of the National Primary…