Ahead of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections, the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has suspended train services in the country to enable Nigerians exercise their civic responsibilities. The temporary suspension of train services will be from Saturday 25 February to Monday 27 February, the NRC said in a statement on Wednesday. According to the statement by the corporation’s Deputy Director of …

The governments of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara States have filed a contempt proceeding against the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mallam Abubakar Malami and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, for failing to comply with the order of the Supreme Court suspending the ban on the old N200, N500 and N1,000 notes. A fresh proceeding …

The United Kingdom has announced the closure of visa application centres in Nigeria on Friday 24 February and Monday 27 February for the upcoming elections. The High Commission made this known via its verified Instagram page on Tuesday. The statement disclosed: “The Visa Application Centres in Abuja, lkeja and Victoria Island will be closed on Friday 24th February and Monday …

Operatives of the Ekiti State Amotekun Corps have arrested a man, identified as Celestine, with counterfeited new N1,000 notes amounting to about N250,000. Celestine, who claimed he was an Anambra State born Lagos-based businessman, said he was heading from Lagos State to Isanlu in Kogi State to buy kolanut and bitter kola when he was arrested with the fake new …

The presiding Pastor of House on the Rock, Abuja, Pastor Uche Aigbe has apologised to Nigerians and members of his church for mounting the pulpit with an AK47 rifle. In a video posted on the church’s social media page on Tuesday, Aigbe said he was disappointed in himself for using the firearm to illustrate a passage in the scripture. He …

The Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUD), Aare Afe Babalola has criticised the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed for closing all universities in Nigeria during the general elections on the orders of the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu. Babalola, who said that neither the Minister nor the NUC boss had such …

The Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Ogunlade Aladelusi, Odundun II has installed the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh as the Baatona of Akure Kingdom. The Minister of State Transportation, Prince Ademola Adegoroye, who was at the Installation ceremony, described Jamoh as a detribalised Nigerian genuinely committed to the development of the …

It was jubilation galore for the residents of Abeokuta, the capital city of Ogun State, as Governor Dapo Abiodun commissioned the 7.2 kilometre Fajol-American Junction-Gbonagun Road and a Primary Health Centre at Itoko. At the commissioning, Abiodun said the Fajol Junction-Ajegunle-Osara-Gbonangun Road, which crisscrosses communities in the Abeokuta South and Odeda Local Government Areas, was among many long abandoned roads …

Tragedy struck in Oke-Keesi, Itoko area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Saturday as a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze in her rented apartment. It was gathered that the deceased committed suicide over her inability to repay a loan she took from a microfinance bank (name withheld). A source, Rasheed Aina, who resides near the deceased’s …

Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State on Sunday stated that four persons have so far lost their lives barely some days after the disbandment of the Ebubeagu security outfit by the Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki While briefing newsmen shortly after a marathon meeting with security chiefs at the Muhammadu Buhari Lounge of the Ebonyi International Airport in Ezza …