NATIONAL NEWS

Nigeria requires N21 trillion to address the country’s housing deficit, according to Vice President Kashim Shettima. He was speaking during the ground-breaking of a five-hundred-unit housing estate to be constructed by the Sokoto State government. In a statement by Olusola Abiola, the Director in the Office of the Vice President, Senator Shettima notes that Nigeria […]

A Royal Navy warship, HMS Trent, arrived in Lagos on Sunday to aid the fight against illegal activities including piracy and illicit trafficking in the sub-region. This is Trent’s second visit to Nigeria, the British High Commission said in a statement. “The visit will help deliver capacity training and support maritime security in the region,” […]

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has instructed the contractors working with the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) to ensure that passport application backlogs are cleared “within the next two weeks”.  Tunji-Ojo, in a Thursday post on X, formerly Twitter, stated that the directive was one of several “swift measures” aimed at eliminating barriers which applicants […]

The Department of State Service (DSS) says it is carrying out an investigation on an incident that occurred on Thursday between its staff and “a mob” at the Garki Market, Abuja. This was disclosed in a statement released by the Service’s Public Relations Officer, Peter Afunanya, and made available to the press. According to Afunanya, […]

At least 30 persons have lost their lives in a landslide reportedly triggered by activities of illegal miners in the Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Nineteen persons were also abducted in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, on Thursday. The council area chairman disclosed this during a meeting between FCT Minister, […]

The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate has expressed great concern over the challenges bedevilling the health sector in the country. He made the remark at the opening ceremony of the 13th Biennial Delegates Meeting and Scientific Conference of Medical and Dental Consultants’ Association held in Kano on Thursday. The […]

The murder of a 200-level student of nursing at the Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), Modupe Atanda, has thrown the institution and the state in general into shock. The victim had earlier in the week been declared missing within the school premises but was later found buried in a shallow grave in a bush on […]

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have burnt down the parish house of Saint Raphael’s Catholic Church in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing a Seminarian in the process. The police authorities and the Catholic Church in Kaduna State are yet to comment on the incident, but an eye witness said that the […]

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) says it has redirected processing of passengers through the New International Terminal at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, effective immediately. This was made known in a statement released by the Director, Public Affairs & Consumer Protection at FAAN, Abdullahi Yakubu-Funtua on Thursday. He said the expedited relocation […]

Public outrage has greeted the firing of teargas canisters and rubber bullets on University of Lagos (UNILAG) students who stormed the streets to protest the hike in school fees. A solidarity group against the fee hike had called for the protest in collaboration with the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) following the 100 percent […]