News as it breaks
Nigeria’s celebrated music icon, Onyeka Onwenu, known as the “Elegant Stallion,” will be buried on Friday (today) in Lagos. The artist died on July 30, 2024, at Reddington Hospital, Ikeja, after collapsing at an event honouring Dr Stella Okoli, the Managing Director of Emzor Pharmaceuticals. She was 72 years old.…
President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to meet with the leadership of the organised labour today to try to finalise the lingering matters around the National Minimum Wage. He personally met with them last week after the tripartite committee he set up to negotiate with the Labour failed to convince them…
The President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Emeka Rollas, has confirmed reports that actor Jnr Pope is alive, The actor was involved in a boating accident earlier this evening April 10. Many videos have been shared online showing Pope sitting motionless on the floor as people tried to revive…
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has approved the appointment of a former factional Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Ehie Edison as his Chief Of Staff. He is expected to be inaugurated alongside some new appointees this morning. Edison led four other members of the House when Fubara presented…
The Supreme Court will on Friday deliver judgments on appeals challenging the outcome of elections in Gombe, Kebbi, Ogun, Kaduna, Nasarawa, and Delta states. Already the apex court had last week decided the fate of 10 state governors. The governors are Hyacinth Alia of Benue; Alex Otti of Abia, Dauda…
After facing a 12-hour marathon interrogation by anti-graft operatives on Monday, ex-minister Sadiya Umar-Farouq returned home on Monday night and is expected to resume Tuesday at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja. The former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development is facing…
