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The management of Arik Air has laid off 300 workers of the airline. The airline made this known in a statement on Friday. The statement, signed by Adebanji Ola, Arik’s spokesperson, said the sacking is due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on its operations. The statement, titled ‘Arik Air management declares 300 staff redundant’, noted that a redundancy […]

The Federal Government says being a member of #EndSARS protest is not an immunity from being investigated or charged for any offence or breach of the laws. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this on Friday in Lagos at a meeting with editors of newspapers. The minister, who was responding to […]

Former housemate of Big Brother Naija reality show, Princess Linda Onyejekwe has said she allegedly rejected billionaire businessman Ned Nwoko because she lacked sense at the time. The PR manager made this statement in the comment section of her Instagram post on where she said she was done dating for love and she’s available for […]

Lai Mohammed, minister of information, says President Muhammadu Buhari will serve out his term despite calls for his resignation. The high rate of insecurity has led the calls for the president to step down. On Wednesday, the Northern Elders’ Forum said life has lost value under Buhari, demanding that the president should resign. But speaking […]

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s request for more time to produce a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, to face her money laundering charges. The judge had on July 24, 2020, issued criminal summons against the ex-minster to appear […]

Nigerians are now at the mercy of criminals with nowhere safe, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, said on Wednesday. He described Saturday’s killing of no fewer than 43 rice farmers in Borno as “a senseless act”. The senate put the death toll at 67. According to him, bandits now control many northern […]

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, says some people are scared that restructuring would affect their political viability. He said this in a press statement by his Special Adviser to the Governor (Media and Communication), Muyiwa Adekeye. The statement was titled, ‘Restructuring is a national endeavour, let’s realise it together’, and shared by the governor on […]

The Northern Elders Forum on Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign. According to the group, the President has failed in the two critical areas of security and economy and as such has ‘nothing new to offer’ Nigerians. NEF Spokesman, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, stated this tonight on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme monitored by Punch. He […]

The Senate has, again, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately initiate a way to phase out the current Service Chiefs and replace them with new ones with fresh ideas and solutions. This was one of the many resolutions that the lawmakers adopted in a nearly hour-long deliberation on insecurity across the country and the recent killing of […]

A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has started an online campaign calling for an independent medical examination to ascertain the physical and mental health of President Muhammadu Buhari. Ezekwesili hinged her decision to start the #MedicalPanelOnBuhari on the fact that the country’s conditions had become too grave for Nigerians to sit still and watch “a train […]

The House of Representatives has passed a resolution to invite President Muhammadu Buhari to brief the house on the true state of the security situation in the country. The decision to summon President Buhari was taken at Tuesday’s plenary when the House considered a motion moved by members from Borno State on the recent massacre […]

Nigeria’s former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2020. “The 2020 #AfricanOftheYear Award honoree is…Congratulations to Dr. @NOlweala! Board Chair @Gavi; Board Chair @ARCapicity, gracing the cover of @forbesafrica,” the world’s leading voice for entrepreneurial success and free enterprise tweeted on Tuesday. Reacting to the development, Okonjo-Iweala, who […]

Security agencies in Niger Republic have arrested the former Chairman of the defunct  Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina. A top security officer confided in Punch that Maina was arrested by Nigerian Security agencies on Monday. Maina, who is being prosecuted on 12 counts of money laundering to the tune of N2bn by the  Economic […]

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has urged Nigerians to be weary of festivities such as Christmas carols as the year winds down. It also warned against non-essential travels just as it asked Nigerians abroad to remain wherever they are or stand the risk of being stranded in the country in the event that the […]

A majority of the personnel of the Nigeria Police Force are not engaged in police duty, despite the shortage of manpower in the force. This is the position of Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State who is worried about the rate of insecurity in the country. Speaking during his appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, […]

No fewer than 86 persons were killed in violent attacks across Nigeria last week, according to various newspaper reports and available records. Also, at least nine persons were kidnapped as Nigeria continues to battle violent acts carried out by various armed groups and individuals. Apart from the resurgent Boko Haram attacks in the North East, […]

The Transmission Company of Nigeria has said it will conduct investigations to establish the cause(s) of the multiple tripping that led to the collapse of the nation’s power grid on Sunday. The national grid collapsed on Sunday morning, plunging parts of the country into a total blackout for hours. Before the TCN confirmed the development, […]