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The Ondo State Government on Wednesday extended the maternity leave period for its female workers from the earlier three months to six months. The government said the move was to build a society where children that were being raised had ...

  The Customs Strike Force, Team A, Ikeja, has said that it intercepted 5,124 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa, along the coast of Lekki, Lagos. The Customs Comptroller in charge of the team, Sani Yusuf, while addressing journalists on Wednesday at ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in the country from Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, where he attended the third forum of the African Conference for Peace. The helicopter that conveyed the President from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport arrived at ...

  Pope Francis has asked for prayers for the late Isaac Achi, a priest of Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Kafin-Koro, Paikoro LGA of Niger state. Achi was burnt to death when gunmen attacked his residence on Sunday. ...

  Two more victims of the train station attack in Igueben, Edo State have been rescued. In a briefing in Benin City, the state’s Commissioner for Communications and Orientation, Chris Nehihkare disclosed that seven suspects, including two traditional rulers, are ...

  The Delta State Police Command have confirmed the rescue of a female student of Delta State Polytechnic Otefe, Oghara, Delta State, who jumped from the Oghara/Benin Bridge. According to a video shared on social media by an activist, Isreal ...

  The Israeli government has said it will commence a direct flight operation from Israel to Nigeria in March to enhance trade and tourism between the two countries. The Deputy Director-General, African Department, Sharon Bar-Li, stated this while interacting with ...

  Nearly 25 million Nigerians are at risk of facing hunger between June and August 2023 (lean season) if urgent action is not taken, according to the October 2022 Cadre Harmonisé, a Government led and UN-supported food and nutrition analysis ...

Irate youths of Kaffin-Koro, Paikoro local government area have allegedly burnt down the Police station in protest to the gruesome murder of a Catholic Priest, Rev Father Isaac Achi of St. Peters and Paul Catholic Church by armed bandits, along ...

  Ondo State Government today commented on the growing anxiety about the health of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. The administration said it was constrained to respond to the concerns and assure people “that by the grace of God, there is no ...

Kenneth Okonkwo, the spokesperson to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has replied former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who recently claimed that Obi cannot make it if elected as president without having members in the national assembly. ...

  The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Murtala Muhammed Airport Command (MMAC) in Lagos State has intercepted hard drugs, military and police hardwares. The consignment were discovered at the cargo section, Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCO), of the domestic wing. Customs ...

An Ikeja Special Offences Court presided over by Justice Mojisola Dada sentenced a 32-year-old vulcaniser, Chidozie Onyinchiz, to death by hanging on Tuesday for robbing a nurse of N57,000. Justice Dada held that the prosecution had proved the charges of ...

  Popular Hausa skit maker, Kamal Iliyasu, better known as Kamal Aboki is dead. The comedian died on Monday in a fatal motor accident on his way from Borno to Kano State. Kamal, a viral sensation on TikTok, where he ...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested a 37-year-old man, Suleiman Adamu, for allegedly defrauding people with counterfeit foreign currency. The spokesman of the command, CSC Adamu Shehu, stated this in a statement. He said the suspect ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said corruption should not be seen as something peculiar to Nigeria. The Nigerian leader spoke Tuesday while delivering a lecture titled, “Values: The Difference Between Success And Failure” at the 100th anniversary of the Baptist ...

  Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo said his petitions to law enforcement agencies against Atiku Abubakar have been received. Keyamo is a director in the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) for Bola Tinubu. In ...

  A forty-seven-year-old woman, Grace Moses today appeared at the Delta State High Court 2 sitting in Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area of the State urging the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to come and collect his child from ...

  The Department of State Services has denied invading the office of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. There were reports in some media outlets that the DSS had stormed the CBN headquarters to arrest the ...

  Former President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed concern over the negative energy being generated by the political class in the build-up to the 2023 general elections across the country. Jonathan said this on Monday while inaugurating the 1.15 km Afi-Uko ...

  It was a sad love story when a middle-aged man identified as Baby Face strangled his lover and set himself ablaze at the Kom Kom area of Oyigbo in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered ...

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has revealed that the embattled CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has resumed duty after his annual leave abroad. Disclosing this in a press statement by the Director, Public Relations, Osita Nwanisobi, the CBN said Emefiele ...

Jos pastor arrested for kidn@pping himself twice and collecting ransom from his church members. Police operatives in Plateau State have arrested a pastor, identified as Albarka Sukuya, for allegedly kidn@pping himself twice and collecting ransom from his church members. The ...

  Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church has advised Nigerians against travelling out of the country for greener pastures, calling for the need to restore Nigeria’s “lost esteem.” “Parents need to reorientate their children,” Oyedepo told journalists in ...

  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has said that the COVID-19 Omicron sub-lineages partly responsible for the current increase in COVID-19 cases in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom have not yet been detected in ...