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The Enugu State Scholarship and Education Loans Board (ESSLB), under the supervision of the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ndubueze Mbah, has formally opened applications for its 2025 scholarship awards, an initiative approved by the state’s governor, Peter Ndubuisi Mbah. According to the ESSLB’s public release, the scholarship scheme comprises three categories: Under this scheme, an...

A shouting match between Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and a Naval officer over residential building linked to a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo (retd) at Gaduwa area in the nation’s Capital City, has sparked a significant backlash on social media, with netizens taking. The standoff...

    By Terver Sar   The glamour once surrounding the marriage between Nollywood actress Regina Daniels and billionaire senator, Prince Ned Nwoko, has turned into a spectacle of scandal, social media drama, and police intervention. What began as a fairytale union between a young screen star and a powerful politician is now unraveling in...

    A 73-year-old grandpa James Ugbedo has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for alleged drug crime on Friday 7th November. Ugbedo, according to the spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi said on Sunday in a statement, was arrested in a cannabis plantation at Igbeshi forest, Imiakebo, Etsako East LGA,...

Police authorities have arrested a criminal suspect for allegedly raping an young Orphan to death in River State, an X, claiming to be a family friend of the deceased, called the attention to the alleged crime after residents of the house fled their home after the shocking discovery, possibly for fear of being implicated. The...

  By Sar Terver Angry mob in Gboko, Benue State, on Sunday lynched and set ablaze a man accused of stealing a Bajaj motorcycle. The incident followed days of mounting anger after commercial motorcyclists (okada riders) staged mass protests over the recent killings of several of their members by suspected bike-snatchers. On Friday, hundreds of...

Trouble was well prepared against initial threats by armed security personnel who attempted to restrain Edo State youths from disrupted the opening of Godwin Obaseki-backed Museum of West African Art, MOWAA in Benin City, Sunday morning in Benin City, Edo State. The presence of the Commissioner of Police in the State, CP Monday Agbonika and...

  Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin has told members of international Community that his refusal to sign and relinquish ownership right of repatriated Benin ancestral artefacts and allow them to take charge of the artworks, made some business partners of former Governor, Godwin Obaseki to conspire against Benin...

Zainab, widow whose husband, identified only as Yarayaki was reportedly shot dead during a robbery incident at Bureau De change premises on Sokponba road by Erie junction last Sunday in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State has welcome a new baby girl. Investigation revealed that the unarmed widow of the slain Benin-based Gold dealer,...

The Edo governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo and Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo, Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II, CFR, Oba of Benin have presented a messy evidence that would likely entangle, change the ownership and management structure of the proposed Museum of West African Art, MOWAA in Benin. The multi-billion Naira MOWAA project, which was designed by...