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The new head of Turkey’s central bank said she has been priced out of Istanbul’s property market by rampant inflation, leaving no choice for the former finance executive but to move back in with her parents “We haven’t found a ...

The coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare Professor Ali Pate has dismissed the rumoured resurgence of COVID-19 in the country, stating that there is no scientific research record to back the claims   Professor Pate disclosed this at the ...

Ondo State Acting Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has frozen the accounts of the 18 local government areas and 33 local council development areas, LCDAs   Reports also state that the acting governor told the newly created LCDA not to open new ...

  The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has warned residents against the use of knockouts, fireworks and firecrackers in the territory during the Christmas and New Year celebrations. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Police Public Relations ...

Former APC National Chairman Adamu retires from politics The former All Progressives Congress, APC, National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, has retired from partisan politics. Adamu said he’s developing allergies for political activities, hence the need for retirement. He spoke on Saturday ...

  The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said he will support whoever emerges as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the State Governorship Elections slated for September 21, 2024. Obaseki, who stated this in Abuja on Thursday ...

  The Benue State Government has demanded N5 billion damages from the publishers of New Telegraph Newspaper over a news report it referred to as a defamatory publication against the person of the Governor, Hyacinth Alia. This was contained in ...

Further deepening the crisis in Rivers State as four commissioners have so far resigned Governor Siminalayi Fubara’s cabinet   The state Commissioner for Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Inime Chinwenwo-Aguma, and the Commissioner for Works, George-Kelly Alabo, are the latest among ...

A Russian man has flown to the US without a passport or ticket. The man who flew on a plane from Denmark to Los Angeles in November without a passport or ticket told U.S. authorities he didn’t remember how he ...

  The deputy editor-in-chief at Russia’s largest pro-Putin newspaper has been found dead at age just 35  ONLY one year after her boss died under suspicious circumstances. Anna Tsareva, the deputy editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP), was found dead in ...

A former Facebook diversity program manager pleaded guilty to scamming the social media giant out of more than $4 million through a scheme in which she faked business deals in exchange for kickbacks, the Justice Department said. Barbara Furlow-Smiles, who ...

The Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zacheaus Adangor, has resigned His resignation was communicated in a letter dated November 14, 2023, and addressed to Governor Sim Fubara. He noted that his exit from office was based ...

Jumia will cease operations for its food delivery service, Jumia Food, in all of its operational countries, which include Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Uganda, and Algeria by the end of December 2023   The company’s current priorities across ...

Tesla is recalling nearly all 2 million of its cars on US roads to limit the use of its Autopilot feature following a two-year probe by US safety regulators of roughly 1,000 crashes in which the feature was engaged   ...

A High Court in Niger State, sitting in Minna, has sentenced a man to death by hanging for setting his mother ablaze The Chief Judge of Niger State, Justice Halima Ibrahim Abdulmalik, delivered a judgement in a case of culpable ...

Ondo State acting Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, today addressed the people of the State upon assumption of office This is his maiden speech in the state following the transmission of power to him by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who had been battling illness. ...

  The Delta State Police Command has shared some security tips with Nigerians on how to stay safe amidst rising insecurity in the country. In a tweet posted on the force’s official X account on Thursday, it advised Nigerians to ...

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has deployed Adegoke Fayoade as the new Commissioner of Police in Lagos State This was according to a Tuesday tweet by Force spokesman Muyiwa Adejobi. “IGP deploys CP Adegoke Fayoade to Lagos Command. Lagos ...

The Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has said regulators of the aviation sector will begin to compel airlines to compensate passengers for delayed or cancelled flights by January 2024. The minister disclosed this on Tuesday when he appeared before the ...

Olasunkanmi Adeyemi, the father of a 9-year-old boy, Emmanuel Adeyemi, has lamented the sudden disappearance of his child in Lagos Adeyemi, while speaking with Punch Metro narrated that his child went missing while on an evangelical outreach in the Orile-Agege ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared former Minister of Power and Steel Olu Agunloye wanted over alleged corruption and forgery The EFCC shared the public notice declaring Mr Agunloye wanted on its Facebook and Instagram channels on ...

A young lady in Adamawa State, Florence Vandi, has allegedly committed su!cide shortly after the demise of her boyfriend. The late Florence, aged 22 years, took a deadly chemical called ‘otapiapia’ not long after the boyfriend named Nuhu Boniface died ...

Two Ghanaians arrested with N250m worth of hemp in Lagos Two Ghanaian, Emmanuel Doedcher, 40, and Godswill Olamide John, 25, have been arrested with weeds suspected to be Indian hemp worth about N250 million. The suspects were arrested on December ...

Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Tuesday morning reportedly ambushed a convoy of Daewoo workers along the Ahoada/Abua exis along the East-West Road in Rivers State, shooting dead four soldiers and two drivers. The gunmen also kidnapped two expatriate Korean ...

  President Bola Tinubu has appealed to Nigerian medical practitioners in the diaspora to return home. In his appeal, the President said their quota to the development of Nigeria’s medical sector is important, and not also forgetting it is more ...