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The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says the Nigeria Government is not interested in naming and shaming sponsors of terrorism. Adesina, who made the remark on Monday during an interview s Today, stated that the government would rather prosecute financiers of insurgency in court. …

An elderly woman died on Tuesday morning in Akure after a building partially collapsed in the Ondo State capital. A photo taken on September 21, 2021, shows onlookers at the scene of the incident in Akure, Ondo State.   According to eyewitnesses, the occupants of the building were thrown into …

The Federal Government has dismissed media reports that a visitation panel report had indicted the management of University of Lagos (UNILAG) following the leadership crisis that engulfed the university in 2020. The Permanent Secretary in the Federal ministry of education, Mr Sonny Echono, dismissed the allegations during a news conference …

A surge of lava destroyed around 100 homes on Spain’s Canary Islands a day after a volcano erupted, forcing 5,000 people to leave the area, local authorities said on Monday. The Cumbre Vieja erupted around 3:00 pm (1400 GMT) on Sunday, sending vast plumes of thick black smoke into the …

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed the bill prohibiting open grazing in Lagos into law. The governor assented to the bill at the Lagos House on Monday. This is coming 11 days after the State House of Assembly passed the bill that prohibits open cattle grazing in the state. …

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has vowed that the north will continue leading Nigeria, arguing that the region has the majority to produce a leader through the ballot. With the 2023 presidential polls in view, leaders and politicians of southern extraction have been clamoring for a shift in power, arguing …

Suspected bandits who allegedly kidnapped and killed two people within Isoko community in Delta State have been apprehended and subsequently burnt alive by aggrieved youths in the locality. The incident happened after the community vigilante group traced the gun-totting hoodlums to their hideouts in the forests. In the bloody encounter, …

The spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Chief Ogbonna Nwuke, has resigned his position. Nwuke said in a letter he forwarded to the leadership of the party dated September 19 that his decision to quit as spokesman was strictly personal. Addressing the leadership of the party, …

The Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has described the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the ‘Capo’ – Capo di tutti of the south. He maintained that the next President of the should come from the Southern region. He spoke …

Paul Rusesabagina, the “Hotel Rwanda” hero who became a fierce government critic, was found guilty on Monday on terror charges after what his supporters say was a politically motivated show trial. He was convicted of backing a rebel group blamed for a deadly gun, grenade, and arson attacks in Rwanda …