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  North Korea has allegedly executed a 22-year-old man for listening to and sharing K-pop as part of Pyongyang’s ruthless crackdown on foreign culture, according to a human rights report released by South Korea. One testimony in the report speaks of how a ...

  President Bola Tinubu on Thursday gave all the state governors seven days to provide concrete feedback on their plans to rev up food production in their respective states. Tinubu gave the directive at the 142nd National Economic Council meeting ...

Fidelity Bank has expressed a willingness to partner with other stakeholers to tackle the twin challenges of investment and support facing startups in Africa. This was disclosed at the Africa Technology Expo, which took place recently in Lagos. In her ...

  A halting Joe Biden struggled Thursday to allay concerns he is too old for a second term in the White House in a fiery debate with Donald Trump marked by personal insults. A bombastic Trump lashed out at his ...

  Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, tackled Mike Ozekhome, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), at a programme in Abuja, on Thursday. Wike, who was an awardee at This Nigeria Lecture and Award, said previous speakers acted as ...

  The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has claimed that certain private aircraft operating in Nigeria are being used for money laundering, drug trafficking, and other illicit activities. The disclosure was made by Keyamo on Thursday, June 27, ...

  President Bola Tinubu has approved an uplift grant under the National Construction and Household Support Programme for 3.6m Nigerian families. This initiative will deliver N50,000 to families in each state for three months. The disbursement of the Tinubu uplift ...

  A tragic loss has shaken the Nigerian community in the UK, as Prudence Daniel-Obia, a 36-year-old pregnant woman, has passed away just days after her birthday. She was expecting triplets and had eagerly prepared for their arrival with her ...

  The Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) seized 9,225,149 litres of stolen crude oil and 2,874,916 litres of diesel and 31,380 litres of petrol in June. It also said troops on operations across the country killed ...

  The Imo State Police Command said it has beefed up security in the state in the Okigwe area, following the recent attack by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in the area popularly called Gariki, Ama Awusa, occupied predominantly by northerners Reacting to ...

  Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP, Yinka Egbeyemi has been removed as Commander of the Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS) and banished to the Police Command. Egbeyemi who became RRS Commander in December 2020 has been replaced by CSP Shola Jejeloye, who was ...

  The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede, has ordered the arrest of two officers allegedly involved in the manhandling of a female staff member at the Regional Hotel, Ojo, Lagos. The incident, which was ...

  US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump hit out at one another in a testy televised debate – the first of the 2024 election. The two rivals accuse one another of lying as they answer wide-ranging questions on issues including ...

  The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, said on Thursday that the Presidency had not approached the National Assembly with a request for new presidential jets. He, however, said should such a request be made, the Senate would approve it. Akpabio said the ...

  Kenya President William Ruto has been given a 48-hour ultimatum by the public to step down, as citizens demand a new government committed to “transparency, accountability, and good governance”. The call for resignation has gained significant traction on social ...

Former Chief Executive Officer of Konga, one of Nigeria’s e-commerce giants, Nick Imudia, has reportedly died by suicide. Imudia was said to have committed the act by jumping from the balcony of his apartment in the Lekki area of Lagos ...

Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has threatened to sanction distribution companies that failed to complete the migration of Token Identifier of Standard Transfer Specification Meters of their customers from Key Revision 1 to Key Revision 2 before July 31, 2024. The ...

In the past week, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited said it uncovered another 165 illegal refineries in various locations across the Niger Delta. According to a NNPC documentary between June 15 and 21, about 400 incidents of oil theft ...

  The FCMB-TLG private debt fund, which is seeking to raise N10bn from series 1 of its N100bn Programme, has opened for investment. The fund, which has been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission, is sponsored and managed by ...

  Former governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has filed a lawsuit against the Kaduna Assembly over the results of a ₦432 billion investigation by an ad-hoc committee. The suit, filed by the ex-governor’s lawyer Abdulhakeem Mustapha, a Senior Advocate ...

  Six teenagers returning home after writing their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), also known as ‘Junior WAEC,’ have reportedly drowned in the Mbang River in Ribang village, Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna state The six victims were students ...

  A fire has erupted at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery, situated in the Lekki Free Zone, Lagos, Nigeria The blaze is currently raging, and its cause is yet to be determined. A video circulating on social media shows thick, dark ...

  Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is set to UPGRADE Ibadan airport to International status. He made this known on Wednesday, while receiving the Chief of Air Staff of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF), Air Marshal Hassan Baba Abubakar ...

  The Federal Government on Tuesday, announced a ban on single-use plastics across all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, MDAs. The Minister of State for Environment, Iziaq Adekunle Salako, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, ...

  President William Ruto has announced that he will not sign the controversial Finance Bill 2024 into law, following widespread protests and public opposition. The bill had proposed tax increases that many Kenyans felt would unfairly burden them. In a ...