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RIVCHPP Engages Medical Directors and Billing Officers to Boost Healthcare Delivery in Rivers State The Rivers State Contributory Health Protection Programme (RIVCHPP) has intensified its engagement with medical directors and billing officers of accredited private healthcare facilities across the state. This proactive initiative is part of concerted efforts to strengthen collaboration, streamline administrative procedures, and […]

In a decisive move to bolster grassroots security and enhance the capacity of law enforcement agencies, the Executive Chairman of Opobo/Nkoro Local Government Area, Hon. James A. James, has officially donated a brand-new operational vehicle to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Opobo/Nkoro Division. The brief yet significant handover ceremony took place at […]

The Executive Chairman of Andoni Local Government Area in Rivers State, Hon. Prince Lucky Promise Otuo, has officially approved the appointment of several new key officials to various strategic positions within the local government council. This administrative restructuring is aimed at injecting fresh vigor, expertise, and efficiency into the local government’s governance framework to better […]

The Lagos State High Court has restrained the Lagos State Government and other respondents from taking further steps towards recognising or installing Ibrahim Saliu as the purported Oba-elect and Onise of Ise Kingdom in Epe Local Government Area of the state. Justice S. Sonaike made the interim order on Thursday in Suit No. LD/0022PRA/2026 following […]

The Niger State Police Command has arrested 139 suspects following a crackdown on alleged unlawful assembly, violent rally, thuggery and other criminal activities in Suleja and surrounding communities. Sixty-four of the suspects have subsequently been arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court in Suleja and remanded in a correctional centre. Police Public Relations Officer for the […]

British academic Jason Arday, who recently resigned as Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge amid allegations of plagiarism and controversy over aspects of his academic and professional record, has been found dead at the age of 41. Arday was found unresponsive at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday, August […]

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the African Democratic Congress, ADC, have approached the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking the disqualification of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from participating in the 2027 presidential election over allegations concerning the authenticity of an NYSC discharge certificate submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Atiku, the ADC […]

The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has announced the collapse of five transmission towers along the Ikot Abasi-Eket 132kV Double Circuit Transmission Line in Akwa Ibom State following extensive vandalism of critical structural components. TCN said the damage was discovered on August 9, 2026, during a routine joint patrol of the transmission line by its […]

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered that a former Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, Shendam branch, Plateau State, Gabriel Nkup Tsenyen, be remanded in the custody of the Department of State Services pending a decision on the propriety of his fresh arraignment. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik fixed August 20 to determine whether […]

 *Responds To Critics Of His Wealth Says He Is Building Africa’s First Auto Museum On 40 Hectares In Abuja Former Kogi State Senator, Dino Melaye, has said he is untroubled by criticism of his display of wealth, insisting that he is more concerned about what God thinks of him than about the opinions of people, […]

Cristiano Ronaldo and his long-term partner, Georgina Rodríguez, have officially married in a private civil ceremony in Portugal, with details emerging that the couple signed a prenuptial agreement to keep their respective assets separate. The 41-year-old Portuguese football star and the 32-year-old Argentine-born model reportedly married on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at Ronaldo’s newly built […]

President Bola Tinubu has assented to the Nigerian Ports Economic Regulatory Agency Act, 2026, giving the Nigerian Shippers’ Council full statutory backing to perform its role as the economic regulator of Nigeria’s port sector. Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Pius Akutah, announced the development on Thursday, describing the President’s assent as the culmination […]