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Ghana to begin jailing LGBTQ+ members Ghana’s parliament has passed a tough new bill that imposes a prison sentence of up to three years for anyone convicted of identifying as LGBTQ+. It also imposes a maximum five-year jail term for ...

Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has said the state will immortalise the late Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Access Holdings, Dr. Herbert Wigwe Speaking at a night of tributes organised on Tuesday by the Port Harcourt City One Love Family to reflect on ...

President Bola Tinubu is set to inaugurate the Lagos State Red Line Rail project Tinubu, who arrived in Lagos on Wednesday from Ondo State, will take-off to Qatar after inaugurating the Lagos Red Line train. The Red Line project, which ...

Senator Sani Shehu, has blamed former President Muhammadu Buhari for the current economic hardship in the country   Sani said that some of the economic policies that President Bola Tinubu is implementing now which triggered the economic hardship should have ...

No fewer than nine people have died of Lassa fever in Benue State in the past two months The State Epidemiologist, Dr Sam Ngishe, disclosed this to journalists in a telephone chat on Thursday. This comes after the Nigeria Centre ...

At least 31 people have died after a bus ploughed off a bridge when the driver reportedly lost control in Mali, west Africa The bus had been travelling from to Kenieba to nearby town of Burkina Faso when the crash ...

  In a shocking turn of events, Vasily Dubkov, the lawyer who represented the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, was arrested in Moscow on Tuesday. The arrest comes shortly after Dubkov accompanied Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, in her appeal ...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Olayemi Cardoso, says himself and his team are not responsible for the current economic woes in the country He stated this on Tuesday in Abuja at the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) ...

Suspected hoodlums have killed a 33-year-old freelance photographer, Zacchaeus Salawadeen, after stabbing him many times in the presence of his three children The hoodlums were said to have trailed Salawadeen to his house in Tundun Fulani Area of Minna, Niger ...

The family of the late Herbert Wigwe, the former group chief executive officer (GCEO) of Access Holdings Plc, has announced arrangements for him, wife and son’s burial ceremony Earlier this month, Wigwe was involved in a chopper crash in the ...

The Imo State Police Command has arrested one Chinenye Nwaneri, for allegedly killing his lover, Chienyenwa Nnodua   Parading the suspect at the command’s headquarters in Owerri, the state capital on Tuesday, the police spokesperson, Henry Okoye, disclosed that the ...

Meningitis has k!lled 20 students in Yobe At least 20 students of some boarding public schools in Potiskum, Fika, and Fune local government areas of Yobe State have died from a suspected Meningitis outbreak. It was learnt that the deaths ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has reiterated its directive to telecom operators to bar telephone subscribers not linked to their National Identification Numbers (NIN) on or before February 28, 2024 The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Dr Aminu Maida, spoke ...

A 40-year-old man, Habu Ibrahim has been arrested by the Jigawa State Police Command after he laced his wife’s coke and meat with poison, to kill her in order to inherit her wealth The State Commissioner of Police, CP AT ...

Blackout hits Abuja as TCN tower is vandalized Parts of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, are experiencing blackout and drop in power supply on Wednesday over the vandalization of Transmission Company of Nigeria’s tower 70 along the 33kV Gwagwalada-Katampe line. Ndidi Mbah, TCN’s ...

Mazi Simon Ekpa has announced that Biafrans have voted to establish Biafra digital currency, known as Biafracoin, amid the Naira crisis The Finnish-based lawyer, Ekpa, disclosed this on Wednesday in a statement through his official X handle. The adoption of ...

  Real estate firm, Wemabod, has completed the signing of its ‘Wemabod Financing SPV Limited N50bn Bond Issuance Programme’. Speaking at the signing ceremony, which was held in Lagos, the Chief Executive Officer of Wemabod, Yemi Ejidiran, said the funds ...

  The African Export-Import Bank on Wednesday, disclosed that it has become the largest financier of oil and gas projects in Africa. The bank disclosed investing $30bn in industry projects, with Nigeria receiving 60 per cent despite reduced global funding ...

  FBN Holdings has become the country’s most capitalised bank valued at N1.22tn, topping Guaranty Trust Holding Company and Zenith Bank. At the close of trading on Monday, GTCO’s market cap stood at N1.16tn, and Zenith Bank was N1.11tn. The ...

  The Katsina State Government via the State Governor, His Excellency, Dikko Radda, has aligned with The Alternative Bank’s mission to support rural economies through innovative financial solutions, tailored to empower local businesses and stimulate sustainable development across the state. ...

The Kaduna State Government has confirmed five deaths following the Lassa fever outbreak in the state The confirmation was in a report on the outbreak of the disease made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the state’s ...

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last election, Peter Obi, has applauded the move by President Bola Tinubu and the Federal Government to adopt implementation of the Steve Oronsanye’s report In a statement posted on X ...

Erstwhile Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has said President Bola Tinubu is not the cause of the hardship in the nation and should be absolved of any blame Ambode spoke at the Chapter Eight of Akinjide Adeosun Foundation’s 2024 Leadership ...

An evangelist with the Celestial Church of Christ, Grace of Comfort Parish, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Morris Fadehan, was allegedly killed by one of his assistants over an unresolved dispute The assistant identified as Lekan Ogundipe was said to have attacked ...

The police in Plateau State have arrested a 29-year-old man, Joseph Yakubu, who allegedly killed his father, Yakubu Dalyop, with a pestle Parading the suspect on Tuesday at the headquarters of the police in Jos, the state capital, the police ...