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  A former Minister of Youth and Sports and one-time Military Administrator of Benue State, Air Vice Marshal Bayo Lawal (rtd) is d3ad He d!ed in his sleep in the early hours of Sunday, June 23 at his home. After ...

  Saudi Arabia said Sunday that more than 1,300 people died on this year’s Hajj pilgrimage – with “numerous cases” due to heat stress and “unauthorized” trips accounting for more than four out of five of the fatalities “The health system addressed numerous ...

  Security forces in Katsina State have reportedly apprehended a woman, identified as Aisha Abubakar, for allegedly transporting ammunition to terrorists. The incident was reported on Monday by security analyst and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama. According to Makama, the ammunition ...

  The family of the All Progressives Congress National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has been thrown into mourning following the death of his mother-in-law, Hajiya Asiya Gauyama. Ganduje’s Chief Press Secretary, Edwin Olofu, announced her demise in a statement issued in Abuja ...

  The Lagos State Ministry of Health has reported 29 deaths and 579 cases since the cholera outbreak began two weeks ago Speaking on Monday during an ongoing press briefing, the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, explained that the death rate was ...

The Southern Governors’ Forum is currently holding a meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, marking their first gathering since the passing of former chairman, Rotimi Akeredolu, in December 2023 According to Vanguard, meeting is taking place at the Presidential Lodge, Ibara ...

  Nigeria’s monthly inflation rate has slowed for the third consecutive month, indicating the effectiveness of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s monetary policy tightening measures. The CBN highlighted this in a statement shared with Journalists on Saturday. According to the ...

  Financial analysts have raised concerns over Davido’s newly launched meme coin and warned about the associated risks. The introduction of the coin into the market has sparked a debate within financial circles. Experts have highlighted similarities to historical Ponzi ...

  The Securities and Exchange Commission has instructed all Nigerian fund managers to provide detailed information regarding their exposure to the recently liquidated Heritage Bank. The Head of the Monitoring Department, SEC, Tarfa Makyur, stated in a signed circular to the ...

  The Federal Government has spent a total of $15.55bn on debt servicing between 2019 and 2024, according to the latest data from the Central Bank of Nigeria. In 2019, Nigeria paid $588.33m in debt service between January and May, ...

  Stanbic IBTC Insurance, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, has launched its Education Endowment Plan, which empowers parents and guardians to secure the academic future of their children or wards. At the launch of the plan in Lagos recently, ...

  A 15-year old student of Airforce Comprehensive School, Kaduna who is identified as Blaise Felix Aliyu was allegedly murdered by two Senior Secondary (SS3) students of the school in the dormitory within the Airforce Base in Mando, Kaduna. Late Felix, an orphan ...

  President Bola Tinubu has sanctioned severe penalties for civil servants who relocate abroad while continuing to draw salaries, as well as those complicit in facilitating such fraudulent activities. Tinubu, while addressing participants at the grand finale of the 2024 Civil Service ...

  Dangote Group has accused International Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in the country of deliberately sabotaging Dangote Refinery’s plan to roll out petrol into the market According to the company, the IOCs are doing this to ensure that the country remains dependent on petrol ...

A 300-level student of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti in Ekiti State, Rachael Olufogbe, has been arrested by the police following a physical assault on a fellow student on Saturday. It was gathered that the incident happened in a private hostel ...

  A retired army general, Brig Gen Harold Udokwere, has been murdered by armed robbers who attacked his residence in Abuja. The incident occurred at No 1, Sanga Street, Sunshine Homes, Lokogoma, around 3:00 a.m. on June 22, 2024. The ...

Apparently weary of the leadership struggle between the Julius Abure-led Labour Party (LP) and his camp, the Deputy National Chairman, South, of the LP, Lamidi Apapa has collapsed his faction and accepted Abure as the national chairman of the party ...

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, founder of Christ Embassy, has spoken out about the fire incident at the church’s headquarters, seeing it as an opportunity for growth and expansion During a live Sunday service, he stated that the fire was not an ...

  The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election Atiku Abubakar on Saturday visited immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari at his residence in Daura, Katsina State. Atiku who was accompanied by the immediate past Governor of Sokoto State ...

  A police inspector has been tragically killed during a confrontation with suspected naval officers in the Okokomaiko area of Ojo Local Government, Lagos State. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon while the inspector and four colleagues were conducting a routine patrol along ...

  The Kano State Police Commissioner, AIG Usaini Gumel, has given reasons why the police ignored Governor Abba Yusuf’s directive on the eviction of the deposed Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero. Recall that Yusuf had on Thursday night, through ...

  Donald Trump has said he will grant green cards to foreign graduates from US colleges, in an apparent softening of his typically hard-line view on immigration, a key election issue The Republican candidate made the remarks in a podcast, ...

  Kenyans are protesting new tax proposals Thousands of them, mostly young people demonstrated in Kenya’s capital and across the country against the proposals by the administration of President William Ruto in its annual budget legislation. The protests brought Nairobi’s central business district to ...

  Nearly two-thirds of Nigerian professionals and three-quarters of Ghanaian professionals are willing to work abroad, a new report by Boston Consulting Group and The Network has shown. The report, Decoding Global Talent 2024, surveyed over 150,000 workers in 188 ...

  Coronation Merchant Bank grew its gross earnings by 62 per cent to N61.6bn for the year ending December 31, 2023. In a statement issued after its Annual General Meeting held in Lagos on Thursday, the lender said the surge ...