The Gidan Angalu community in Toto Local Government Area, Nasarawa State was thrown into shock penultimate Tuesday with the ‘resurrection’ of a traditional doctor at the point of burial two days after he was certified dead. Fifty-nine-year-old Godwin Ugeelu Amadu was confirmed dead by doctors at a private hospital at about 6 am on 5 September, following which he was …

The Federal Government may explore out-of-court settlement to resolve the lingering dispute with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) despite the National Industrial Court fixing 19 September for ruling on the matter. This is as President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday promised to engage in further consultations with relevant stakeholders towards ending the seven-month-old action. The President told a delegation …

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has signed into law, The Female Inheritance Bill of Rivers State. The Law was formally known as “The Rivers State Prohibition of the Curtailment of Women’s Right to Share in Family Property Law No. 2 of 2022.” Wike expressed displeasure at how most cultures, particularly in the state, do not encourage what can engender growth …

Two hundred and eighty-six foreign nationals took the Oath of Allegiance to adopted Nigerian citizenship. They include four Americans, 14 Britons and 86 Lebanese. After the ceremony presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Interior Minister, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola told State House correspondents that on 9 February, the Federal Executive Council approved a list of the …

The Federal Road Safety Corps in Osun State said it has cleared a gridlock on Gbongan-Ibadan Expressway, which was caused by the ongoing protest on that axis by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS). The road links Oyo and Osun States in the South West. The Sector Commander, Mr Paul Okpe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in …

The existing audit law in Nigeria has been described as too weak and obsolete to tackle present-day corruption, implying that the Muhammadu Buhari administration’s avowed fight against corruption cannot be effective with the government still operating a 1956 audit law. The alarm was raised as a result of the urgent need to strengthen the Office of the Auditor General for …

More than 89 million Nigerians have been registered by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) through its ongoing enrolment exercise, according to the commission. This is an additional 82 million from the seven million in the data base by November 2015 when Mr Aliyu Aziz assumed duty as NIMC Director General. According to NIMC guidelines, every Nigerian citizen or legal …

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has commiserated with his Ondo State counterpart, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on the death of his mother, Lady Evangelist Grace Akeredolu. In a statement on by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile on Thursday, Sanwo-Olu urged Akeredolu, the family, friends and the people of Owo and Ondo State to preserve the legacy of love and …

Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Speaker of Taraba State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Joseph Albasu Kunini has urged Nigerians, especially the political class, to promote the tenets of democracy for the nation to take its rightful place among the comity of nations. In a message to commemorate this year’s International Day of Democracy which has the theme, …

A former Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Ilesa branch, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola has asked the court to commit to prison the Speaker of Osun State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Timothy Owoeye, and the chairman of the state’s Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC), Mr Oladunjoye Oladitan over their insistence to conduct the council election in the state on 15th …