The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau has indicted an Air Peace pilot and a Co-pilot for taking hard drugs and alcohol.The accident investigators tested the crew positive for the substances after the aircraft they flew was involved in a runway excursion at the Port Harcourt International Airport on July 13, 2025.This
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The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has commenced a five-day warning strike today, following the expiration of its fresh ultimatum to the Federal Government over unpaid allowances, salary arrears, and unresolved welfare issues.The association announced the industrial action after what it described as government inaction on long-standing demands.Resident doctors form
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Celebrity chef and Guinness World Record holder Hilda Baci has reassured fans and food enthusiasts of the hygiene of the giant pot she intends to use for her record-breaking jollof rice attempt at Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos.In an Instagram post shared on Friday, Baci said she personally washed
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Labour Party chieftain, Peter Obi, held a closed-door meeting with former President Goodluck Jonathan, in Abuja on Thursday.In an update shared on X, Mr Obi wrote, “Today in Abuja, I met with my very dear elder brother, statesman, and leader, former President Goodluck Jonathan. We had a fruitful closed-door meeting
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The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said there was no order restraining Senator David Mark and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola from acting as the party’s National Chairman and National Secretary.The ADC in its statement declared that Honourable Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court refused the ex parte application filed
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Barely 48 hours after the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) suspended its strike action, the union has alleged that the management of the Dangote Refinery had reneged on the resolutions reached.In a statement jointly signed by its President and General Secretary, Williams Akporeha and Afolabi Olawale,
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Traditional rulers in the South East have strongly condemned the coronation of individuals as Eze Ndigbo or Obi of Igbo outside Igboland, insisting that such practice is alien to Igbo culture and tradition.Reacting to the recent action of a self-acclaimed Obi of Lagos, Chairman of the Imo State Council of
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The Federal Government has revoked the 5% excise tax previously imposed on telecommunications services in Nigeria, with the step expected to ease cost pressures for millions of mobile users.Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Aminu Maida, disclosed that President Bola Tinubu directed the removal of the tax
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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday sentenced one of the two Ansaru leaders recently captured by the Department of State Services (DSS), Mahmud Muhammed Usman, aka Abu Bara’a, to 15 years for illegal mining.Bara’a, who hails from the Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State, and Abubakar
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Anietie Udobit, AbujaPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday held a private working lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris.UNITY TIMES reports that Tinubu is on a 10-day working vacation in Europe, which began last Thursday.The Nigerian leader is spending the period between France and the
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