A boat carrying about 500 migrants, including a newborn baby and pregnant women, has disappeared in the central Mediterranean, two charities have said.
Alarm Phone, a group that picks up calls from migrant vessels in distress, said it lost contact with the boat on Wednesday morning.
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday, in Abuja, said he has run a good race and finished his course as Nigeria’s leader for the past eight years.
Therefore, he said, it is in order for him to pass the baton of service to another leader who will lead the country for the next four years.
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo (SAN) on Friday said all those threatening to disrupt the May 29 inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are just online noisemakers.
The Department of State Services (DSS) had on Wednesday raised the alarm of plans by subversive elements to disrupt the programmes in some parts of the country.
No fewer than 46 musicians including Buju, Waje, Brymo, Fireboy, Kaycee, Asake, Timaya, Pasuma, Naira Marley, Tony Tetuila, and Seyi Vibes, among many other music industry heavyweights, thrilled fans with electrifying performances at the Renewed Hope Concert in honour of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, and his Vice, Kashim Shettima, at the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
Fast-rising singer, Habeeb Okikiola, better known as Portable, on Friday, lamented that organisers of the Tinubu inauguration concert offered him N5 million instead of N10m for his performance.
According to him, that was the reason why he failed to perform at the concert held to celebrate the inauguration of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu, in Abuja on Thursday night.
The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday arraigned eight persons for allegedly assaulting a policeman in uniform performing his duties in the Bariga area of the state.
The defendants are Mariam Ajadi, 19, Abidem Adeyemi, 35, Segun Akindutire, 25, Ndubuisi Akon, 25, Victory Ovwigho, 25, Bisola, Oshineye, 24, Ajadi Olalekan, 27, Prince Daniel, 25.
The expressions of concern erupted after Funke, shared an emotional tweet about depression.
The Jenifa actress tweeted: “Depression is real. Please be kind to others. Yes, don’t trade your happiness with anything, but still, be humane in all you do. We are all on a journey in this world. Be conscious. Be aware. Share. Make peace. Take risks and be grateful for success and victory. Yet be aware, love, forgive, and stay happy.”
wo suspected killers of a former Ogun
State Permanent Secretary, Femi Egbeoluwa and his wife, Funmi, who were
murdered in their Ikeja residence on March 19, 2023, have been arrested
and paraded by the Lagos State Police Command.
The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation have released a new file detailing an assassination attempt on the late Queen Elizabeth II, during her visit to California in 1983.
The monarch was preparing to undertake an official visit to the United States with her late husband, Prince Philip, when the FBI got wind of the plot on February 4, 1983, a month before the visit.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday conferred the national honour of the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) on the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
President Buhari also conferred the vice president-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima with the Grand Commander of Order of the Niger (GCON) honour.
Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo will lead the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) observing the general election in Sierra Leone on June 24.
This was made known by the secretary-general of the Commonwealth, Patricia Scotland who said Osinbajo accepted to be the chairman of the group.
A medical doctor, Mrs Sekinat Oredoyin, on Wednesday narrated to a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja how a prophet, Olushola Akinsipe, allegedly defiled a 13-year-old visually impaired girl under the pretext of performing witchcraft deliverance for the victim.
Nigerian singer, Cynthia Ikponmwenosa Morgan also known as Madrina, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the handshake Pete Edochie gave the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi.
