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Gaise Baba, Timi Dakolo, Kiekie to lead conversations at NECLive 2025

Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- The complete lineup for NECLive 2025 has been unveiled. It reveals an unprecedented gathering of Nigeria's most influential creative industry leaders, including gospel artiste Akin... Read More


How residents staged #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest amid police crackdown

Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- On Monday, protesters led by Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, stormed the streets of Nigeria's capital city, calling for the release of Nn... Read More


Senate steps down bill proposing 10-year jail term for abortion offences

Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- The Senate on Tuesday suspended consideration of the Criminal Code Amendment Bill following disagreements over provisions criminalising the supply of drugs or instruments used to c... Read More


Reps move to enshrine timely budget presentation in constitution, pass bill for second reading

Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- The House of Representatives has passed, for second reading, a bill seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to compel the President to present annual budget estimates to the Nationa... Read More


JUST IN: Tanker explosion kills scores on Niger highway

Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- A tanker carrying petrol has exploded at a village on the Bida-Agaei road in Niger State, killing an unspecified number of people. The accident, according to a Facebook post by on... Read More


UPDATED: Tanker explosion kills many on Niger highway

Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- A tanker carrying petrol has exploded at a village on the Bida-Agaei road in Niger State, killing an unspecified number of people. The accident, according to a Facebook post by on... Read More


Tanker explosion kills many on Niger highway

Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- A tanker carrying petrol has exploded at a village on the Bida-Agaei road in Niger State, killing an unspecified number of people. The accident, according to a Facebook post by on... Read More


Terrorist Bello Turji releases more captives after peace talk in Zamfara

Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- Zamfara terrorism kingpin, Bello Turji, has released another set of kidnapped persons following another meeting with local authorities and some Islamic clerics in the Shinkafi Loca... Read More


Supreme Court reserves judgement on Rivers emergency rule

Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- The Supreme Court has reserved judgement in a suit filed by governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenging the 18 March declaration of a state... Read More


Hoodlums set Ekiti ADC secretariat ablaze, disrupt party excos' inauguration

Nigeria, Oct. 21 -- There was chaos in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Tuesday, after some suspected political thugs set ablaze the State Secretariat of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). ... Read More