In a display of sportsmanship, Nigerian cyclist Ese Lovina Ukpeseraye received crucial support from the German cycling team during the Paris Olympics. Ukpeseraye, representing Team Nigeria, found herself in a difficult situation when she had no bicycle to race with in the keirin and sprint events due to the short notice of her participation. “Due

The politician went on to say that the attempt to pull the Speaker and his name into a Hollywood fiction plot was futile, and that anyone who helped the stories in any way would face the consequences of the law, including other smear operations. While expressing support for the House leadership’s decision to dissolve the

According to Foreign Affairs Minister Yusuf Tuggar, Nigeria will not put up with any kind of outside meddling in the current protests taking place in the nation. The Nigerian government has issued a warning that it will not accept any foreign meddling in the current protests taking place in the nation, according to Minister of

The head of the Sokoto screening process, Prof. Mu’azu Shamaki, spoke to the students and said that the legislator would support 100 of the qualified applicants to study medicine and other relevant fields in India. Shamaki described the gesture as a clear attempt to raise the standard of professionalism and education in the state and

The Nigerian team, which had previously made history as Africa’s first male or female team to advance past the group stage of the Olympic competition, lost 74-88 to the United States. They went head-to-head with the Americans in the first few minutes, only to fall behind as their opponents pressed harder. According to the News

She was detained, along with her husband and six others, for aiding and abetting an organised syndicate that specialised in tampering with and stealing from oil pipelines. ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the force’s public relations officer, told a news conference in Abuja that the feat was part of the IGP’s special task force on petroleum and

The former Chief Security Officer to the late military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, and the 2023 presidential candidate of the Action Alliance, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has condemned agitations for a military takeover in the country stressing that military coup is a thing of the past that no longer has a place in Nigeria.

The spokesperson for the House of Representatives, Rotimi Akin, has stated that the monthly salary for the lawmakers is N600,000 as against the N900,000 as speculated. Akin clarified in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja as he reaffirmed the commitment of the House members to the 50 per cent deduction in their salaries to

President Bola Tinubu has pleaded with Nigerians to be patient with his administration, assuring them that the country is transitioning from darkness to dawn. In an official video released by the State House on Wednesday, Tinubu acknowledged the ongoing hardships orchestrated by the removal of the fuel subsidy and the floating of the naira. He

Mele Kyari, Group CEO of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, agreed on Wednesday to a televised public hearing in the Senate. This follows a series of charges charging the state-owned oil corporation of sabotage in the country’s oil industry. Farouk Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, also supported