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President Bola Tinubu’s government is considering lifting the suspended telecom tax and other fiscal policies on Nigerians to secure a new loan of $750 million from the World Bank. According to a document published by the World Bank, the EMT ...

Nigeria Labour Congress and its Trade Union Congress of Nigeria counterpart have given the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission till May 12 to withdraw the recent hike in electricity tariff or face unprecedented industrial action. The ultimatum was issued in a joint ...

The Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, has arrested a 37-year-old fake medical doctor and practitioner, with suspected forged certificates. The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of the zone, Olatoye Durosinmi, confirmed the arrest on Tuesday while parading the ...

A mother has thrown her disabled six-year-old son into a crocodile-infested river where he has reportedly been mauled to death by reptiles. Savitri Kumar, 26, from Uttara Kannada, a district in the western Indian state of Karnataka, had a heated argument ...

A video now trending on social media shows a female undergraduate of Bamidele Olumilua University of Education Science and Technology, Ikere in Ekiti State, brutally beating a fellow student with a stick. Despite pleas from the victim, the bully was ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has issued a directive to all financial institutions to commence deducting a cybersecurity levy on all electronic transactions, effective May 20, 2024. This directive comes after a six-year delay since the initial directive was ...

The Federal Government, through the Securities and Exchange Commission, is set to delist the naira from all peer-to-peer crypto platforms as the government steps up efforts to tackle exchange rate manipulators and dollar racketeers The development came against the backdrop of ...

Seven travellers were abducted on Friday by suspected kidnappers along the Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode highway, leaving one dead The gunmen were reported to have ambushed the victims around Ceplast Industry and Iperu junction axis. A victim in a viral audio video narrated how ...

  Seven firms, including Dangote Sugar Refinery, Unilever Nig Plc and Nigerian Breweries have seen their combined workforce reduce by 1,281 between 2022 and 2023, according to findings by The PUNCH. This is according to an analysis of the firms’ ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered banks operating in the country to start charging a cybersecurity levy on transactions. A circular from the apex bank on Monday disclosed that the levy implementation would start two weeks from today. ...

Fire has razed parts of the Kano residence of a former Kano State governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau. According to reports, the fire was suspected to have started from the kitchen of the house last night. The fire was said to ...

  The Ondo State Police Command, on Monday, said it had begun an investigation into the death of two persons in Ipe in Akoko East Local Government Area of the state. The deceased, Ojulewa Alex and Alonge Samuel, were reported ...

The mother of the late four-year-old Miguel Ovoke, who recently died at the BrickHall School located in the Cadastral Zone B11, Kaura, in Abuja, on Monday, stormed the school in the company of others to protest the death of her son. The ...

The Umuihe autonomous community, Akaeze in the Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, has been thrown into a state of trauma, following the killing of their traditional ruler, HRH Umazi Ibo Ubani, by suspected gunmen. There were heavy shootings ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday directed all banks to commence charging a 0.5 per cent cybersecurity levy on all electronic transactions within the country The apex bank stated this in a circular signed by the Director, Payments System Management Department, ...

A Port Harcourt based businesswoman, Ada Bolingo, has left an alarming note on Facebook. She revealed that she’s been struggling with her mental health for a long time and is beyond help. She wrote; “I’m taking the cowardice way out and ...

Britain’s most notorious thief stole nearly £13,000 worth of goods from Co-op and One Stop shops, shamelessly hitting the same store four times in a single day. Rhys Mansell, 37, unleashed havoc, striking 26 times in just 29 days at ...

Southern Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state is suffering from massive floods, claiming the lives of at least 60 people with 101 still missing, as confirmed by local authorities on Sunday. Over 80,000 residents have been forced to flee their ...

Police has fatally shot a radical teenager who sta.bbed a man. The attack, described as having the “hallmarks of a terror incident” by the Western Australian premier, saw the 16-year-old wielding a large kitchen kn!fe. Before the fatal encounter, the ...

The community gathered to remember Daniel Anjorin, the 14-year-old tragically k!lled. More than 300 people paid their respects at the vigil held in Hainault station car park. Daniel’s friends, family, and neighbors poured in, clutching bouquets of flowers and heartfelt ...

Jason Holton, known as ‘Britain’s heaviest man,’ weighing around 50 stone, d!ed as doctors couldn’t save him from organ failure. The Surrey resident, who struggled with obesity, faced immense health challenges before his untimely demise. His mother, Leisa, recounted the ...

Luck has run out of a man, Babatunde Olaoluwa, who allegedly had been pretending as a worshipper only to dispossess people in churches of their phones in the Oye Ekiti and Ayegbaju areas of the state. Police arrest man who specialize ...

The Lagos State Government has shut 367 churches, mosques, night clubs and others over environmental violations in the last three months. Lagos SHUT 367 churches, mosques, hotels, others This was disclosed by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Services, Tokunbo ...

Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Oluyinka Olumide, stated that 80 per cent of buildings in Ibeju Lekki have no approval He disclosed this in a recent interview with newsmen. He said, “Just last week Thursday and Friday, ...

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old male worshipper identified as Abiola, otherwise known as Aro, who was accused of de!iling a 14-year-old minor (name withheld) at the Olorunloba Mosque restroom located on Ondo Road in the Ijebu-Ode area ...