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A Maryland resident in the United States, who just travelled from Nigeria, has tested positive for the rare virus monkeypox. The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) said the unidentified patient, has not been hospitalised. He is said to be currently ...

  The United States has warned pilots that planes operating in Ethiopian air space could be “directly or indirectly exposed to ground weapons fire as Tigrayan, Oromo rebels encircle Addis Ababa. The Federal Aviation Administration advisory issued Wednesday cites the ...

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has paid a visit to ex-governor, Olusegun Osoba who is recovering from a knee surgery in the United Kingdom. The Governor visited him this week. This comes after the National leader of the All ...

This is the story of how a 3-month old baby was stolen from 5-year old girl in Abuja. Her mother, Fatimah Kabiru, 23, and a mother of three has narrated how a yet-to-be-identified young man stole her 3-month-old baby girl ...

A new report by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that Nigerian youths feel the most pressure to succeed globally. The report titled ‘The Changing Childhood Project’ was conducted by UNICEF in conjunction with Gallup, ahead of the ...

U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken will arrive Nigeria today. This comes after his first stop in Nairobi Kenya on Wednesday. He will arrive Abuja to meet President Muhammadu Buhari. Blinken is the highest-ranking Biden administration official to visit sub-Saharan ...

The House of Representatives has passed for second reading a bill seeking to make it compulsory for the Federal Government to provide free health care services for children in Nigeria. The legislation, which was sponsored by a member, Bello Kaoje, ...

  Governor Hope Uzodinma will launch a new security outfit in Imo state on the 30th of November. The new security outfit will fuse local vigilante organisations and the Community Policing network, Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba said. ...

Seventeen days after a 21-storey building collapsed and claimed about 46 lives in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State, another building under construction around Magbon in the Badagry area of the state has killed four construction workers. It was gathered ...

Osun State Police Command on Wednesday said a popular hotel owner in Ile-Ife, Ramon Adedoyin, has been arrested in connection with the death of one Timothy Adegoke. Adegoke, until his death, was a master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, ...

The United States has removed Nigeria from its list of religious violators, even as it blacklisted Russia, China and eight other countries “as Countries of Particular Concern for having engaged in or tolerated ‘systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious ...

  Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has appointed his son, Babajide Akeredolu, as Director General, Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit (PPIMU). The governor also nominated 14 new Commissioners and Special Advisers. Governor Akeredolu had appointed four commissioners and some ...

Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has detained one Buba Mai Bindiga for allegedly attacking one Hassan Sidi with a machete in Moshe Gada in Kaiama Local Government Area of the state. A statement ...

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) today received the 95 Nigerians at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Alhaji Habib Mustapha, the Director General of NEMA who was represented by the Acting Coordinator of the Lagos Territorial Office of ...

The Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority (LASPPPA) on Monday shut 62 buildings at Okota area of the state. Officials of the agency stormed the area to enforce compliance with physical planning laws of the state which it claimed were ...

  The number of tobacco users has dropped by two million, a report by the World Health Organisation has shown.   The report, which is the fourth WHO global tobacco trends report shows that there are 1.30 billion tobacco users ...

There was palpable tension in Akure on Wednesday as a result of the death of three persons in the Ondo State capital. Channels Television gathered that those who died were two commercial motorcycle riders and a passenger. According to witnesses, ...

Some traders today carried placards protesting the closure of Oyingbo market, as they asked Tinubu’s daughter — Folashade Tinubu Ojo to leave Oyingbo market alone.   They carried placards one of which said, “Folashade Tinubu Ojo, Ahmed Tinubu’s daughter leave ...

5 people have been killed as a petrol-laden tanker exploded along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway today, Wednesday, November, 17. The tanker exploded in the early hours of the day around Tunji Alegi Filling Station, Kwakyama Area of Ogere in Ogun State. ...

A woman, Sekinat Adesanya, has been killed by hoodlums during a robbery around Moro community, close to Odokekere, in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State. It was gathered that Sekinat was on her way to join in the ...

  The Naval Head of Information and Public Relations Directorate, Navy Commodore Suleman Dahun, has told The Punch that popular Instagram comedian and personnel of the Nigerian Navy, Abdulgafar Ahmad Oluwatoyin, popularly known as Cute Abiola, is not missing but ...

The remains of late Alhaji Sani Dangote, the Deputy President, Dangote Group of Companies and brother to Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, was laid to rest in Kano today, Wednesday, November 17, 2021. The funeral prayer which was led by ...

A commercial driver in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi has bitten off and swallowed part of a finger of Iboko Kenneth, a member of the State’s Ministry of Capital City Development taskforce in a bid to escape arrest. The action ...

Nearly 300 people have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the COP26 climate summit.   The UN climate summit COP26 took place in Glasgow this month and has now resulted in close to 300 people testing positive for Covid.   ...

The Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, has arrested 12 suspects in connection with the gruesome murder of CSP Kazeem Abonde. Abonde, the late Operations Officer of the Lagos State Command was killed on 23rd September, 2021 during a raid ...