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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved the immediate re-deployment of Mohammed Abdullahi as the new Minister of Environment. Abdullahi, until his redeployment, was the Minister of State for Science, Technology and Innovation. “The President hopes that he would bring his ...

    A team of medical experts based in Nairobi, Kenya, has designed an innovative device that helps reduce menstrual pains for women who usually experience serious unease during their menstrual cycle. NTV Kenya notes on Wednesday that the gadget ...

The abducted Managing Director of the Bank of Agriculture, Alwan Ali-Hassan, on Wednesday, regained freedom from his abductors. Ali-Hassan was one of the passengers of the ill-fated Kaduna-Abuja train. He was kidnapped alongside over 100 passengers whose train was bombed ...

  The Lagos State Government has shut down the Medville Global Health Centre after investigation into the complaints of a man, Chibuike Nwachukwu, regarding his wife’s death during childbirth at the hospital. The state Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, ...

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has explained how two of his aides died in a road crash on Wednesday. Jonathan himself escaped death after he was involved in an auto crash on his way from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. ...

Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has said that his sack as Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Lagos council and dissolution of the council’s executive by the National Administrative Council (NAC) is a ...

Hisbah Board in Jigawa has seized 1,426 bottles of assorted alcoholic beverages in two local government areas of the state. The Hisbah commander in the state, Ibrahim Dahiru, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Dutse, the ...

  A New York Supreme Court justice killed himself days after cops raided his house as his ‘really close’ friend – the nephew of Buffalo’s alleged top mob boss – faced federal charges of sex trafficking and bribery. John L. ...

No fewer than 16 villagers have been drowned in River Kaduna, Niger State, while trying to escape attacks in their communities in Munya Local Government Area of the State. Daily Post gathered that the incident happened on Wednesday, when gunmen ...

The Senate has urged the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to liaise with the Ghanaian Government to strengthen bilateral relations between both countries to prevent the maltreatment of Nigerians entering Ghana. This was contained in the recommendations of the chamber ...

The abductors of Abuja-Kaduna train passengers have said their aim was not to gain ransom from the Federal Government, saying they don’t want money. In a video released by the assailants, the bandits stated that the government knew what they ...

Leke Adeboye, son and Senior Personal Assistant to the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye was made to face a panel on Wednesday. Despite calling some pastors of the church goats, it was learnt ...

A report issued by 11 international organisations working closely with the European Union on food emergency has said that 11 million more persons could go hungry in West Africa in the next three months, bringing the total number of hungry ...

Nigerian Senate on Wednesday passed a bill seeking to establish a Federal University of Transportation in Daura, Katsina State, President Buhari’s hometown. The approval followed the debate by Senators after its general principles were read by the Senate Committee Chairman ...

The Nigerian Railway Corporation says it is yet to establish contact with 163 passengers and seven crew members who boarded the AK9 Abuja-Kaduna train that was attacked by terrorists on March 28, 2022. Fidet Okhiria, the NRC’s Managing Director, in ...

A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, has ordered 107-year-old herbalist Furera Abubakar, and Isah Hassan, 17, to be remanded in prison for allegedly plucking out the eye of a 12-year-old. The Prosecution counsel, Mr Lamido Soron-Dinki, told the court on Wednesday, ...

Lagos State Government has appointed an ex-chairman of the state’s chapter of National Union of Road Transport Workers, Musiliu Akinsanya popularly called MC Oluomo, as the chairman of its Parks Management Committee. Also, a former Assistant Inspector General of Police, ...

The Principal of Community Secondary School in Okuru Ama, Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State, Pastor Sylvanus Toby has been arraigned before a Magistrate Court on a two – count charge of conspiracy and criminality. Toby and ...

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has appointed Bianca Ojukwu as the secretary of the 15-man Truth, Justice and Peace Committee newly set up to help address rising cases of agitation, insecurity, and other challenges in the state. However, the ...

Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in 1987, a military tribunal ruled Wednesday after a trial that started on October 11, 2021. The tribunal also sentenced ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested a notorious queen of a drug cartel, Lami Rigima, who is supplying psychoactive substances to traffickers in Taraba. The NDLEA Spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, said in a statement in ...

Leke Adeboye, the last son and Senior Personal Assistant of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has slammed pastors who preached after his father had given the sermon of the day. Recall that ...

A former local government chairman in Oyo State, Wasiu Owolabi is dead. It was gathered that Owolabi served as Chairman of the Atisbo Local Government Area until May 2019. He was among the Chairmen who were sacked by Governor Seyi ...

Two executives of former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform have reportedly resigned, as the app has been branded by some as a failure. Josh Adams and Billy Boozer, Truth Social’s chiefs of technology and product development, have left their ...

Japan and Singapore continue to hold the world’s most powerful passports, a new global ranking has revealed, as their citizens can visit 192 countries visa-free. The ranking also reveals that Ukraine has a visa-free/visa-on-arrival score of 143, a ‘record high’ ...