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President Buhari has met with the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in New York today.        

A woman has thrown a divorce party for herself as she celebrates being “finally” free after her 17-year marriage ended. The divorcée, Sonia Gupta, 45, threw a colourful themed party with her family and friends, and celebrated the end of ...

Nollywood practitioners on the platform of Audio Visual Rights Society (AVRS) today protested the alleged illegal use of their intellectual property by a hotel in Ikeja, Lagos. Leading Nollywood stars including Jide Kosoko, Fred Amata, Yemi Solade and Mahmood Alli-Balogun ...

A travel agent cheated Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo out of nearly £250,000. The 53-year-old, named in Portugal as Maria Silva, also scammed the football star’s super-agent Jorge Mendes out of more than £14,000 and former Man Utd winger Nani ...

Officials of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a man simply identified as Adegboyega for allegedly brutalising his eight-year-old daughter following early signs of puberty. According to Ebenezer Omejalile, Chief Operating Officer of Advocates for Children and Vulnerable People’s ...

Operatives of the Katsina State Police Command have arrested a kidnapper-turned crippled, Buhari Haruna, while attempting to pick up a ransom for a kidnap operation. The suspect, 22-year-old Haruna, is a resident of Kankia Local Government Area in the state; ...

Nigeria’s minister of state for health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, has said an average of 20,000 cases of snake bites are recorded in Nigeria every year. Mr Mamora disclosed this at a press briefing to mark the 2021 International Snakebite Awareness Day ...

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said that the regime of his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, is not interested in naming or shaming Boko Haram sponsors and other financiers of terrorism in the country. ...

The Southern Nigeria Frontier has condemned a statement credited to the Director of Publicity and Advocacy of the Northern Elders Forum, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, in which he boasted that Northern Nigeria has the voting population and would not play second ...

Security agents have cordoned off the premises of Abia Stat High Court at Umuahia at the resumed hearing of Nnamdi Kanu’s human rights Suit against the Federal government and 7 others, which was filed by his Lawyer, Barrister Aloy Ejimakor ...

The Kano Film Censorship Board, has henceforth prohibited showing or selling movies displaying kidnappings, drug addiction and snatching of GSM phones in the State. The Board Executive Secretary, Ismaila Naaba Afakallah, explained in a chat that the prohibition becomes necessary, ...

  The Nigerian Ambassador to Indonesia, Usman Ogah, has returned to his duty post in Jakarta, Indonesia, weeks after he was recalled from the Asian country. Recall that the envoy was asked to come home over the manhandling of a ...

  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were returned to power on Monday in a hotly contested election against the rookie Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, according to TV projections.   This is even as Erin O’Toole, leader of Canada’s opposition ...

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Rivers State chapter, has given 48 hours ultimatum to the Nigeria Police to vacate its secretariat, or it would shutdown services. In a statement released in Port Harcourt, State Chairman of IPMAN, ...

Ritualists suspected to be dealers in human parts have sold one of the hands of a young girl for a sum of N20,000 in Offa, Kwara State. The Nigerian Tribune gathered that the hand of a reported missing girl, Rianat ...

  Nigerians have taken to social media platforms to react after a POS stand was spotted on the premises of a popular bank. In a short video which is circulating online, a POS stand could be seen stationed at the ...

Gunmen struck at Ekiti East Local Government Area on Sunday and abducted a would-be couple planning to get married next week, the police said on Monday. Police spokesman in the state, ASP Sunday Abutu, told the News Agency of Nigeria ...

The candidate of the Young Progressives Party in the forthcoming Anambra State Governorship Election, Ifeanyi Ubah, says there will be trouble if the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra insists that the November 6, 2021 election won’t hold. Ubah, who represents ...

The dollar rose to between N572 and N575 in different parts of the country on Monday barely two days after online platform, Aboki FX, stopped providing updates on the exchange rate. Punch correspondent, who visited the ever-busy Wuse Zone 4 ...

No fewer than four persons were killed in a road accident after the bus they were travelling in fell into a river in Taraba State. Daily Post reports that the accident occurred on Sunday afternoon in Sarti, headquarters of the ...

Adewale Daniel Jayeoba has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged investment scam. The EFCC said Jayeoba, a native of Ori-Ade Local Government in Osun State, used to live at Suit 1004, Providence ...

Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 30 suspected internet fraudsters in a sting operation at Kwara State University, KWASU, Malete. Spokesperson of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement on ...

Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has frowned at the way the Federal Government is taking loans. According to the ex-president, borrowing for recurrent expenditure is ‘foolish’. In a video interview posted on Channel’s Television Facebook page, Obasanjo said that ...

The Ondo State Government has sealed off Shoprite and the neighbourhood market in Akure, the Ondo State capital. The popular facilities were sealed on Monday by the Ondo State Waste Management Authority, ODSWMA, over what was described as unsanitary and ...

A 16-year-old girl, on Sunday, reportedly committed suicide over her unfaithful boyfriend in Warri, Delta State. Amid sketchy details, the teenager, identified as Blessing, drank a bottle of banned popular insecticide, ‘Sniper’ on Sunday morning at Arubayi Street, Warri. Her ...