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 A protest was organized to address the issue of hijab in the state, however the protest which started as a peaceful one, took a violent turn when an unidentified man rushed to the school to inform other protesters of a machete cut. Some Muslim parents on Thursday stormed Oyun Baptist …

The Kwara State Government has shut Baptist High School, Ijagbo in the Oyun local government area of the state amid the crisis over wearing of hijab by Muslim schoolgirls. The state commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajiya Sa’adatu Modibbo Kawu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The …

The National Independent Electoral Commission, INEC – have released calendar and political itinerary in 2022 in Nigeria. The calendar is consists of political activities bordering the 2023 presidential and gubernatorial elections in the country. According to the calendar released by the INEC, starting from March 2022 the commission will give …

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has set up a political committee to assist the South-East region to achieve its aim of having a southeasterner as Nigeria’s President in 2023. This comes after a National Executive Council meeting of the organisation in Enugu, the Enugu State capital. The …

A Chief Magistrate Court II sitting in Mubi, Adamawa, has ordered that one Abdullahi Adamu, be remanded in prison for allegedly raping a five-year-old nursery 3 schoolgirl (name withheld). The 28-year-old suspect was said to have allegedly lured the minor into an uncompleted building in Mubi in the Mubi North Local …

A Peoples Democratic Party chieftain in Lagos State, Ganiu Taofik, says the party is ready to receive Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu if indeed he wants to return to office in 2023. Taofik made this known in a chat with The PUNCH on Thursday. The former PDP spokesman in Lagos said his …

It was cheering news for the Presidential ambition of former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki as former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida throws his weight and support for him as the rightful man to take over from President Muhamadu Buhari come 2023. General Babangida was responding to request from a …

IN COMING MONTHS, YOU WILL WITNESS MASSIVE SHIFT FROM INSURGENCY TO PEACE, STABILITY, PRESIDENT BUHARI TELLS NIGERIANS IN THE NORTH EAST Nigerians in the North East will, in the coming months, witness a change from the protracted insurgency to peace and development in their respective communities, President Muhammadu Buhari pledged …

Jennifer Abubakar, the wife of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has broken silence on the ongoing divorce saga with her husband. Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Trent, the third wife of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, while replying to enquiry on circulating rumours on social media accusing her of disposing of …

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has slashed the charges and rates on some transactions including ATM withdrawal, ATM maintenance fees, interbank/intra-bank transfer, among others. The apex bank, in a circular released on Friday, January 28, 2022, announced that the Standing Order charge for intra-bank will be free instead of …