The two- week competition is the largest arts and culture festival in the world. The country was represented by Ekiti State Performing Company, for performance content, and Niger State Tourism Commission, for Crafts Exhibition. Prof Ojo Bakare, renowned professor of Choreography and and Performannce Aesthetics and immediate past Commissioner for …

Shaffy Bello, a Nigerian actress, has said she wants a companion and not marriage.In the latest episode of ‘Mercy’s Menu’, the actress also described herself as “a one man kind of woman.” Shaffy said she wants to settle with a man but not in a marriage setting.“I am a one …

Some commercial sex workers in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have decried low patronage in their business due to the scarcity of Naira notes. Some of them who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday, said the scarcity of the notes was a threat and had crippled …

The police in Ogun State on February 9, 2023, arrested two cousins identified as 34-year-old Damilola Famoriyo and 31-year-old Akinbayo Emmanuel Abiodun for allegedly robbing one Amos Oyemechi Chuckwuka of his tricycle.The suspect was said to have also killed the victim, dumping his corpse at a river bank in Ijebu-Ode. …

Six days to the presidential and National Assembly elections, the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has suspended the redeployment of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police (DIGs), Assistant Inspectors-General of Police (AIGs) and Commissioners of Police for election duties. The police boss, on February 7, this year, redeployed some DIGs, AIGs and CPs ahead …

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has debunked reports circulating social media that its operatives raided the home of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate… The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has debunked reports circulating social media that its operatives raided the home of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate …

Ten states have asked the Supreme Court to set aside the pronouncement of President Muhammadu Buhari banning old N500 and N1,000 notes. The governors, in Suit No SC/CV/162/2023, filed on Friday by their counsel, A.J. Owonikoko (SAN), want the apex court to declare the President’s directives in his Thursday’s broadcast …

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has said that only National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) members are authorised election officers to handle the Bimodal Voter Authentication System (BVAS) during the February 25 and March 11 general elections . Speaking after a tour of the training centre …

 The Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Imo State has invented a 7.5kva fuelless and fumeless generator. This development was revealed on Friday by the Rector of the institution, Engr. Dr. Michael Chidiebere Arimanwa.The rector disclosed the generator is another impact recorded by the institution, with the prospect of providing a solution …

As the cashless policy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria comes fully on stream, it has triggered a squeeze in the cash in circulation, leaving traders and buyers in Benue State stranded, with many of them now resorting to the traditional sales method of trade by barter. The method involved the …