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🚨 GRAND FINALE ALERT 🚨All roads lead to the UNIBEN sports complex Join the APC as we hold our Grand Finale Rally in the heart of Edo! Let’s unite and take Edo to the next level with Senator Monday Okpebholo and Rt Hon. Dennis Idahosa leading the charge. 🗓️ Date: 9/14/04📍 Location: UNIBEN Sports Complex Be part of history! Your …

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has suspended Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi State over alleged anti-party activities, according to a memo seen by journalists on Friday. The suspension was made by the party’s ward executive committee in Ayetoro/Iluagba District 1 after reviewing the report of a disciplinary committee set up to investigate Melaye’s actions. The PDP has taken swift action …

The storm brewing in the Benue State political landscape has reached a fever pitch, with the Benue State National Assembly Caucus accusing Governor Hyacinth Alia of rejecting President Bola Tinubu’s peace initiative aimed at reconciling him with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume. A caucus of federal lawmakers from Benue State, on Thursday alleged that Governor …

Claiming:Breaking news, BBC NEWS that the Fulani tribe arrived in Nigeria from all other African countries to start mass killings in Nigeria. Full Text Over the years, insecurity has been a major problem in Nigeria, damage The country is like a plague of locusts. Robbery and insurgency have created a devastating security threat to Nigeria, claiming many lives and displacing …

American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization OpenAI has launched its much-anticipated GPT-01 model which has scored impressively on benchmark tests. The company released a preview of its next-generation large language models on Friday. The company claims that these models outperform previous models, but there are some limitations. When OpenAI launched its o1-preview model, it boasted about how well it performed …

  Funeral services have begun in Uganda for Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei, who was set on fire by her ex-boyfriend and later died. The funeral procession carrying the athlete’s body left Kenya on Friday ahead of the funeral on Saturday Dickson Ndiema attacked her with petrol just under a fortnight ago outside her home in neighbouring north-western Kenya, close …

Investors in the Nigerian equity market enjoyed a trading week of massive profit-taking as they raked in a whopping N607 billion on the floor of the Nigerian Xchange Group (NGX) as equity capitalization rose to N56.00 trillion from N55.39 trillion in the previous week. This follows a loss of N83.55 billion in the previous week. The exchange recorded gains on …

The Naira closed the week with a high exchange rate against the US dollar on the official exchange on Friday, September 13, 2024. The local currency was trading at N1,546/$1 on the official exchange according to data from the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (NAFEM). This shows that N1,546/$1 is N103 higher than the N1,649/$1 the currency traded at the …

In a major milestone towards achieving energy independence, the Presidential Committee on the Sale of Crude Oil and Refined Products has announced that the loading of the first batch of petrol from the Dangote Refinery will commence on Sunday, September 15. Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and a member of the committee, Zach Adedeji, disclosed this at …

A Magistrates Court in Abuja has summoned Senator Monday Okpebholo, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Edo governorship election on September 21, 2024, to appear over claims of age falsification. Judge Abubakar Mukthar ordered Okpebholo to appear in court on September 20, the day before the election, to answer charges of forgery and perjury. The summons follows a …