The Oyo State Government has issued a seven-day public notice to relatives and next of kin of unidentified and unclaimed corpses deposited in public hospital mortuaries across the state to come forward for identification and collection before the bodies are given a mass burial. The directive was announced on Monday in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Health, Oluwaserimi Ajetunmobi. According to the commissioner, the decision became necessary […]

  A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the remand of Omoyele Sowore at the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of his application seeking a stay of execution of an earlier court order revoking his bail and issuing a bench warrant for his arrest. The order was made on Monday by Justice Mohammed Umar during proceedings in the ongoing trial involving the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential […]

  Nigeria flared approximately 76.92 billion standard cubic feet (SCF) of natural gas between January and May 2026, despite growing domestic demand for cleaner energy and a sharp increase in the cost of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), commonly used for cooking. Latest figures released by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission show that oil and gas operators burnt a total of 76.92 billion standard cubic feet of associated gas during […]

  The Deputy Spokesman of the House of Representatives, Philip Agbese, has dismissed calls for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to resign over the country's security challenges, describing the demand as politically motivated and linked to preparations for the 2027 general elections. Agbese, who represents Ado/Okpokwu/Ogbadibo Federal Constituency of Benue State on the platform of the Labour Party, said the call by some opposition lawmakers does not reflect the position of […]