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  Russian President, Vladimir Putin has warned he is willing to take ‘military measures’ in response to Western action in Ukraine. Giving the warning during a meeting at the defense ministry on Tuesday, December 20, Putin said Russia will ‘react ...

  Lagos state recorded 1552 COVID cases yesterday, as positive figures also spiked across the country. It was the first time Nigeria was experiencing a ballooning of its daily cases in new infections. The NCDC also announced four deaths that ...

  Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th December 2021 and Monday, 3rd January 2022, has been declared as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day celebrations respectively. Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who made the declaration on ...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a 2022 budget of N17.126 trillion against the N16.391 trillion sum presented by the president. The Senate is also expected to pass the appropriation bill on Tuesday. While the major capital, recurrent, debt ...

The National Youth Service Corps, on Tuesday, broke its silence on a corps member, who made a marriage proposal to a female soldier, saying the Nigerian Army would not allow any violation of military traditions. The NYSC was reacting to ...

OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely has stepped down as chief executive and will be immediately succeeded by Amrapali “Ami” Gan, the company said on Tuesday. Gan was most recently the chief marketing and communications officer for OnlyFans and will now “assume ...

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kaduna State has ordered that a bricklayer, Ahmed Usman, who allegedly defiled a nine-year-old girl, be remanded in a correctional centre pending legal advice. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Magistrate Ibrahim Emmanuel did ...

  Nigeria’s economy has lost N499.32bn to the shutdown of Twitter since it came into effect on June 4, 2021. On June 4, the Federal Government announced the suspension of Twitter after the social media platform deleted a tweet by ...

A 25-year-old housemaid Dominion Okoro has revealed how she killed Madam Maria Oredola Igbinedion, the mother of a former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion. Okoro said she killed the 85 year-old woman, while she was asleep, with a ...

The Japanese Ministry of Justice said three prisoners on death row were executed on Tuesday, the first in Japan since December 2019. The execution was the first under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration. The three were identified as Yasutaka Fujishiro, ...

The Plateau State University (PLASU) Bokkos, chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has commenced an indefinite strike to press home its demands for improved welfare and working environment. ASUU chairperson, Dr. Hassan Zitta and secretary Deme Bitrus ...

First Lady Aisha Buhari has ordered all her staff to proceed on leave until further notice. This was contained in a short terse statement posted on Aisha Buhari’s official Instagram handle (@aishambuhari), signed by Dr. Mohammed Kamal, Senior Special Assistant ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has asked all prospective candidates for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) to acquire their National Identification Numbers (NIN) ahead of the exercise. The board stated this on Monday in its weekly ...

  Iran’s top diplomat to Yemen, Hassan Irloo is dead. He died Tuesday after contracting coronavirus, Iranian state TV reported. The death of Ambassador Irloo came after he was recalled from war-torn Yemen for what Iran described as medical treatment. ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday presented a budget of N305 billion for the 2023 general elections to the National Assembly. INEC’s chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu made the presentation to the Senate Committee on Appropriations. According to Yakubu, ...

  A 75-year-old man, (name withheld) who arrived Nigeria through the  Murtala  Muhammed International Airport, Lagos aboard a flight operated by Delta Air from the US has died at the airport. The man was found dead shortly after the aircraft ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Monday stated that Nigeria has entered the fourth wave of coronavirus disease following a 500 per cent increase in the number of cases in the past two weeks. This is as the disease ...

A civil society organisation, the Women Empowerment & Legal Aid, on Monday, asked the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Farouk Yahaya, to respect the decision of a female soldier, Private Sofiyat Akinlabi, to marry a male corps member. The ...

Founder, Salvation Ministries, Pastor David Ibiyeomie has lamented that a cow is more important than human being in Nigeria of today. He said this is how funny the Nigerian government (under President Muhammadu Buhari) is by allowing cows to have ...

A woman said she caught her husband cheating on her when she saw his ‘half-n*ked mistress’ leaving the family home on a doorbell camera. TikTok star Sara, @nottheworstmom, said that her husband had skipped a family holiday because he was ...

The family of Luka Binniyat and the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union have demanded his immediate and unconditional release. Binniyat, a freelance journalist, was said to have written a report on the wanton killings and destruction of properties in Southern Kaduna. ...

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has submitted the probe panel report on the suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, to the Police Service Commission. This is coming almost six months after the SIP led by DIG ...

Chile has ELECTED a new President, and he is 35. The streets of Santiago erupted in celebration Sunday after leftist millennial Gabriel Boric became Chile’s youngest-ever president-elect with an unexpectedly large victory over his far-right rival in a polarizing race. ...

  Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, on Sunday said the high rate of orphans in the state was as a result of incessant herdsmen attacks. Ortom stated this at the Evangelical Church Winning All, English LCB, Makurdi, during a thanksgiving ...

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, said Federal Government has disbursed about N100 billion through the Development Bank of Nigeria since 2017 to facilitate Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to boost job creation. A statement ...