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Naira fell significantly against the U.S dollar at the parallel market on Wednesday, as the currency exchanged hands with the hard currency at N562.00 per $1. This implies a N5.00 or 0.90 devaluation from the N557.00 it traded on Tuesday. ...

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in El Salvador, angry at the introduction of Bitcoin as its legal tender. President Nayib Bukele says the cryptocurrency will help Salvadorans working abroad to send money back home. But demonstrators fear ...

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has sued Kenya over his extradition to Nigeria. The pro-Biafra activist’s brother, Kingsley Kanunta, sued on his behalf, according to court papers obtained by Punch correspondent In his petition presented ...

About 3,000 health workers in France have been suspended because they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. A new rule, which came into force on Wednesday, made vaccination mandatory for the country’s 2.7 million health, care home and fire service ...

Ugandan prosecutors on Wednesday slapped additional charges of terrorism as well as aiding and abetting terrorism on two opposition National Unity Party (NUP) MPs. The lawmakers – Mohammed Ssegirinya and Allan Ssewanyana, who are allied to the opposition leader Bobi ...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has been listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people for 2021. Time Magazine’s annual list of 100 most influential people in the world accords recognition to “people whose ...

The Police Command in Kaduna State has arrested two suspects over the killing of pilot Abdulkarim Na’Allah, the eldest son of Sen. Bala Ibn Na’Allah, in Kaduna. Abdulkarim’s stolen car has also be found in Niger Republic. Na’Allah, the senior, ...

The Niger State Government on Wednesday said over 100 persons had died of cholera outbreak in the 25 local government areas of the state. The Commissioner for Health and Hospital Services, Dr Mohammed MakunSidi, in an interview with journalists at ...

Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), operators of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal Two, MMA2, has rewarded Mr. Eluu Emmanuel for returning a bag containing bundles of local, foreign currencies, jewellery and other valuables worth millions of naira. The bag was ...

The Nigerian government says it will lift the ban on Twitter in a ‘few days.’ The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this while answering questions from State House journalists at the end of Wednesday’s cabinet meeting chaired ...

Bring Back Our Girls campaigner, Aisha Yesufu is in a celebratory mood as her son, Amir graduates from the Regent’s University, London. In a tweet, Yesufu said, “When you were told your son will not be able to go to ...

The General Overseer of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, popularly known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has narrated how a worshipper who tried to steal during a Shiloh programme ran mad. The cleric disclosed this while speaking at the ...

Activists and revolutionists have announced plans to hold a nationwide protest on October 1 – Independence Day – in Nigeria. The protest is necessitated by nine demands, according to a statement by the Coalition for Revolution issued today. The statement, ...

Former Rivers Governor, Peter Odili has been placed on the watch list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC ), the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS) revealed today. The NIS revealed this in response to a suit filed by Odili ...

Edo State Government today locked out workers who did not provide proofs of having taken the COVID-19 vaccine. The government made good its threat on the enforcement of COVID-19 no-vaccination, no-entry to government facilities, by sending its workers home. Hundreds ...

U.S. Conservative radio host Pastor Robert “Bob” Enyart, who swore off Covid-19 vaccines, has died from complications due to the virus, his co-host has announced. “It comes with an extremely heavy heart that my close friend and co-host of Real ...

A Nigerian Genius, David Gbodi Odaibo has died one week after winning a $125m US contract.   His brother, Stephen Odaibo, announced the unfortunate incident on social media.   According to Stephen, his brother “had a PhD in Computer Engineering ...

Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has passed the bill on the prohibition of open grazing in the state into law. The bill entitled, “A Bill for a law to prohibit open rearing and grazing of livestock and provide for ...

Microsoft Co-founder and Billionaire Philanthropist, Bill Gates, has lamented the low access to COVID-19 vaccines in developing countries, warning that if things do not improve, COVID-19 would be treated as a disease of the poor. He said this in a ...

President Buhari has sworn in three INEC commissioners.   The sweraing-in of the three new National Commissioners into the Independent National Electoral Commission was done today.   The commissioners were sworn in before the commencement of the weekly virtual Federal ...

A major row broke out between leaders of the Taliban just days after they set up a new government in Afghanistan, senior Taliban officials told the BBC. Supporters of two rival factions reportedly brawled at the presidential palace in the ...

Gunmen on Wednesday kidnapped five members of the National Youth Service Corps who were travelling to their orientation camps in Akwa Ibom and Rivers states. Two other passengers on the bus conveying the corps members were also kidnapped. The fresh ...

A commercial s.e.x worker was recently arrested for kissing a 15-year-old boy at his home in Luveve suburb, Zimbabwe. Fiona Murewa (24) a tenant at the 15-year-old boy’s family home was busted by the teen’s grandmother in a compromising position ...

The Edo State Government has barred unvaccinated civil servants from work. The government also barred all those who are yet to take COVID vaccine from accessing public places Governor Godwin Obaseki had initially said from middle of September, unvaccinated persons ...

Crisis is currently brewing at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) following the appointment of Prophet T.B. Joshua’s wife, Evelyn as the new leader of the church. Evelyn was appointed leader of SCOAN two days ago by the church. ...