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Premium Timesby Oladayo Jonathan1h ago
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nentawe Yilwatda, says the party’s internal opinion polls indicate that President Bola Tinubu will win the 2027 presidential election.
Premium Timesby Ekemini Simon2h ago
The Nigeria Police Force in Edo State says it has rescued a kidnapped man and killed three suspected kidnappers during a joint security operation in Igarra, Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of the...
Premium Timesby Kabir Yusuf2h ago
The Nigerian government has condemned a Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which has killed civilians and injured dozens of others.
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At its core, what was requested of the Nigerian economy by the Tinubu administration’s main reform initiatives was to distinguish between the removal of an unsustainable subsidy and the creation of...
Premium Timesby Agency Report11h ago
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has urged voters to resist financial and material inducements from politicians, warning that such offers could undermine the state’s future in the 2027 general...
Premium Timesby Agency Report11h ago
No fewer than 241 candidates of various political parties have been cleared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to contest 36 elective positions in Cross River State in the 2027...
Premium Timesby Tunde Eludini11h ago
Plateau United delivered the standout result of Matchday 8 of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season with a 4-0 thrashing of Kano Pillars, while Rangers International retained top spot...
Premium Timesby Mohammed Lere12h ago
A missile strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 12 people and injured 309 others, prompting the Saudi-led coalition to threaten a decisive response against...
Premium Timesby Yakubu Mohammed12h ago
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Olufemi Oluyede, has directed the Defence Space Administration (DSA) to extend its “space-based” intelligence and surveillance support to ongoing military...
Premium Timesby Agency Report12h ago
The Enugu State Government has condemned Saturday’s attack on members of the Nigeria Democratic Party (NDC) at two locations in Enugu, stating that no one died during the attacks.
Premium Timesby Aaron Cole12h ago
A girl who learns is a girl who is not a bride. Today the world is asked to end child marriage and invest in girls’ rights.
Premium Timesby Press Release13h ago
A former spokesman for the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Nosike Ogbuenyi, has asked the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to introduce an Over-40 World Cup...
Premium Timesby Chinagorom Ugwu13h ago
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has cleared a former Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, to contest the 2027 governorship election in Enugu State.
Premium Timesby Aaron Cole13h ago
The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has come of age as a leading association of professional journalists who have embraced online publishing in Nigeria.
Premium Timesby Aaron Cole13h ago
The current wave of demonstrations in 40 French cities, driven by chronic teacher shortages, dilapidated school infrastructure, overcrowded classrooms, and anger over iron-fisted policing, peaked...
Premium Timesby Press Release13h ago
When the Nigerian government announced a 30-day temporary fuel price intervention last Thursday, likes began to attract likes.
Premium Timesby Press Release13h ago
I received a WhatsApp message from Waziri Atiku Abubakar on Sunday afternoon in response to my open letter to him which was published earlier that day titled ‘AND NOW YOU CALL HIM BOLA’ together...
Premium Timesby Press Release13h ago
Nearly 20 years ago, while stumping for his party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party, out-going president, Olusegun Obasanjo, decided to confront head-on morbid rumours about the health of his...
Premium Timesby Aaron Cole13h ago
The Economist’s “Nigerians Dislike Their President, But May Re-elect Him Anyway” is a confident piece, and a narrow one. It grants the dislike, then treats it as electorally irrelevant.
Premium Timesby Yushau A. Shuaib14h ago
I was reluctant to make this disclosure. For weeks, I weighed silence against the obligation to be transparent.
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