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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has condemned the conspiratory silence for over 24 hours of President Muhammadu Buhari over the brutal hacking to death of a 200 level Christian student of the Sokoto College of Education, Miss Deborah ...

Spain is planning to introduce medical leave for women who suffer from severe period pain, media reports suggest. A draft bill says women could have three days of leave a month – extended to five in some circumstances. But politicians ...

Ibrahim Lawal, the media aide of detained Rivers House of Representatives member, Farah Dagogo has alleged that his boss was poisoned by Efeturi Irikefe, the Camp Commandant to Governor Nyesom Wike after he was arrested. Lawal said this while complaining ...

North Korea has confirmed its first death from Covid-19, with state media adding that tens of thousands more are experiencing fever symptoms. Six people died after suffering a fever with one testing positive for Omicron, state media reported on Friday. ...

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) says it will welcome APC national leader Bola Tinubu, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other aspirants willing to contest elective positions in 2023 on the party’s platform. SDP acting national chairman Supo Shonibare, who stated ...

Billionaire, Elon Musk, on Friday said his $44 billion deal for micro-blogging and social media platform, Twitter, is temporarily on hold. Musk disclosed this in a tweet via his Twitter handle, citing pending details on spam and fake accounts. “Twitter ...

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three residents of the territory for allegedly killing Terungwa Stephanie, a 26-year-old National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member. Stephanie was declared missing after leaving her residence for Community Development ...

The FESTAC Deanary of the Justice Peace Development Commission (JPDC), Catholic Church, says it has mobilised its officials ahead of the 2023 general elections. The commission, with its record in election monitoring and observation in Nigeria, disclosed this at its ...

  The governing Council of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) has appointed Professor (Mrs) Adenike Temidayo Oladiji as the eighth substantive Vice Chancellor of the University. The Council presided over by the Pro-Chancellor, Chairman of Council, Ambassador (Dr.) ...

Ibrahim Maqari, imam of the National Mosque, Abuja has reacted to Deborah Samuel’s killing saying indeed Muslims have some red lines that should not be crossed. Absolving her killers, Mr Maqari hinted grave consequences awaited persons who crossed the religion’s ...

The President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is dead. He died today, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced. The ministry also confirmed there would be 40 days of official mourning with flags across ...

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto has expressed sadness over the killing of a female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto State. We had earlier reported that the student who was identified as Deborah ...

The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele was on Thursday, spotted at the Presidential Villa Abuja, where he met with President Muhammadu Buhari. Although the meeting held behind closed doors, Emefiele failed to disclose his mission in ...

An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court sitting at the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos has sentenced a 31-year-old Physics Teacher, Oluwajuwon Soetan and his brother, Olugbenga Soetan, a driver with a bank in Lagos to cumulative ten years imprisonment. Oluwajuwon worked at Bizben ...

A Sokoto government official has allegedly threatened that more Christians in Nigeria will be murdered if they say things considered disrespectful to their revered Prophet Muhammad, following the gruesome killing of Deborah Samuel, a Christian female student of Shehu Shagari ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, three bills aimed at improving the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing/proliferation financing framework in Nigeria. The bills are: the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2022, the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, ...

Renowned Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has advised the Federal Government to pay ransom to the terrorists holding the 62 abducted passengers of the Abuja-Kaduna train. Gumi also advised the government to deal with the bandits with caution because of ...

Russia has said it will be forced to take “retaliatory steps” over its neighbour Finland’s move to join Nato. A foreign ministry statement said the move would seriously damage bilateral relations, as well as security and stability in northern Europe. ...

The US has passed more than one million Covid-related deaths, says the White House. President Joe Biden said the country was marking “a tragic milestone” and each death was “an irreplaceable loss”. It’s the highest official total in the world ...

The Chairman Senate Committee on Land Transport, Senator Abdufatai Buhari, speaks during an oversight of the Moniya Railway station in Ibadan on May 11, 2022. The Chairman Senate Committee on Land Transport, Senator Abdufatai Buhari, on Wednesday asked the Chinese ...

A former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili and popular sociopolitical activist, Aisha Yesufu, has condemned the killing of a christian student in Sokoto State, identified as Deborah Samuel. In their separate reactions, Oby and Yesufu while condemning the incident, ...

    The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday said it would employ both the manual and electronic methods in the transmission of the 2023 elections results. The commission also said there is a possibility of moving sensitive materials from ...

Vocal legal practitioner, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has condemned the gruesome murder of Deborah Samuel. The 200 level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto State was burnt alive today. The deceased was accused of blasphemy against the Holy Prophet ...

Irate attackers in Sokoto have just roasted a Christian female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education in Wamako, witnesses told Peoples Gazette. The deceased, identified only as Ms Deborah, was accused of passing unflattering comments about Prophet Mohammed on ...

Authorities on Thursday continued searching for survivors on a plane carrying 11 people that crashed in Cameroon on Wednesday. The aircraft, whose type and make was not made public, was flying from Yaounde-Nsimalen airport to Belabo, in the east of ...