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By Ayo Kehinde The President and members of the Commission for the State Civil Service of Rivers, appointed by the Governor Siminalayi Fubara, sued the only administrator, IBOK-ETE IBAS, and others in court for suspension. The applicants, Rev. Goodlife Iduku Ben, Amadi Christian Echele, Chimenim Wisdom Jerome and three others, are challenging what they have described as their illegal removal …

The National Medicine Law Enforcement Agency (Ndlea), has intercepted the delivery of illegal drugs that are packaged as green tea in the import warehouse of Murtala Muhammated International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos. A statement on Sunday by the Director, Media & Advocacy Agency, Femi Babafemi, stated that confiscation carried out on Thursday, June 5, 2025, was based on credible intelligence …

The owner X Elon Musk has eliminated an explosive accusation that connects the president of the United States Donald Trump with the dishonored financier Jeffrey Epstein on social media. Musk – who has just come out of his role as a best consultant of the White House – said Thursday that Trump is present in unpublished government files on former …

The Socio-Economic and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Tinubu Bola President to use “a good office and his leadership position to reconsider his appointment from at least three Progressive Congress members (APC) as the Commissioner of the Resident Election (REC) from the Independent National Election Commission (Inec).” The group noted that holding a 2027 general election amidst the appointment …

When Temi got his first job in the UK, buying land at home in Lagos was one of the first things in his mind. Like many Nigerians in the Diaspora, he wants to invest in something real. Something that says, “This is mine.” But fear will be cheated, misled, or buy land with documents that are shaky holding it. He …

The Senate Committee for local content, during a supervision visit to the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) structures in the State of Bayelsa, praised the Board of Directors for its solid implementation of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Development (Nogicd) law of 2010. The Committee has promised strong legislative support to advance NCDMB initiatives for the development …

The IGBO separatist group that is prohibited, the native of Biafra (IPOB), has called the international community and the Nigerian government to free its imprisoned leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, insisting that he is a “conscience prisoner” who has no case to answer. In a statement issued on Sunday by the Secretary of the Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, the group …

Mr. Türk responded to the announcement by Marco Rubio, US State Secretary, on Thursday, regarding the steps targeting judges, who oversee the 2020 war crimes committed in Afghanistan by US and Afghan Military Forces, and former Minister of Prime Minister and Minister Netanie Netanie and Yoav issued against Minister Benjamin Netanie Netanionu Netanionu and Netanie Nasielu Israu Netanielu Israelu Netanielu …

Festus AdeDayo, PhD (Published by The Sunday Tribune, 8 June 2025) As Ngugi Wa Thiong’o says in his wizard of the Corvo, (2007) the anger is more corrosive than fire. Don’t make mistakes: President Bola Tinubu is angry. When Tinubu was the same angry way, I wrote a piece entitled Tinubu the ap’ejalodo and his strange friend of fish (18 …

“I always have a painful experience to see other children going to school with their backpacks,” said Zénabou who was 14 years old. “It was tortured because even though I was burned with the desire to find out what happened in schools where these children left every morning, I realized very early that it was a system that was not …