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Minister of aviation Hadi Sirika said the proposed national carrier, Nigeria Air, would come on board in 2022. “Nigerians should trust that we will be able to deliver a very robust carrier that will be for the size of our ...

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 90-year-old man, Yusuf Yarkadir for selling drugs to the youths in his Yarkadir village in Rimi Local Government Area of Katsina state. Full of regrets under interrogation, the ...

Tragedy struck on Thursday, when a 5-year-old boy died and scores narrowly escaped death following the partial collapse of a distressed three-storey building in Adeniji Adele axis of Lagos State. It was learnt that the building sited at 19, Church ...

The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has ordered the commencement of computer-based tests for fresh applicants of the national driver’s license. This was contained in a statement released on Thursday titled, ‘Creating a safer road use ...

The six students and two staffers of Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria Kaduna State, who were kidnapped on 11 June have been released. They were released on Thursday night, Channels TV reported. The Public Relations Officer of the polytechnic, Abdullahi ...

The Accident Investigation Bureau,has said the preliminary report on the crash of a military aircraft in which the Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, and 10 others died in Kaduna in May this year would be ready by ...

A bereaved mum wants everyone to see a video of her 12-year-old girl being attacked by a bully before she died. Semina Halliwell passed away on June 12, after spending four nights in a hospital, the Liverpool Echo reports. Her ...

A Nigerian Pastor, Oluyemi Fasipe took to Twitter to confess his love for women who put on waist beads, leg chains, light makeups with multiple ear piercings. The pastor seems to have shocked the internet community by admitting his love ...

All nine people onboard were found dead in the crash of an airplane outside Orebro, Sweden, on Thursday. “It’s a very severe accident,” Swedish police said on their website. “Everyone on board the crashed plane has died.” Police said the ...

A man has broken a record for having the “world’s longest tongue”. Praveen, from Tamil Nadu, earned a spot in India’s Book of Records after stretching his tongue to a whopping 10.8cm. He trumped the previous record holder by 0.7cm ...

The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), on Thursday, said a report on the crash of a military aircraft would be ready next week. The crash, which occurred in Kaduna in May claimed 11 people including the late Chief of Army Staff, ...

Food poisoning has reportedly claimed the lives of four members of the same family at Olori village in Banni community, Kwara North senatorial district of Kwara State. Vanguard reliably gathered that the incident happened in the wee hours of Thursday. ...

  Special Assistant to the President on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie revealed she is being attacked over her nomination as INEC national commissioner. According to Mrs Onochie, she is not partisanship is her “blood” and had followed due process before ...

If you have lived in Lagos, you would agree that the city is consistent with drama, and the sight of a driver hiding under a LASTMA vehicle might not come as a surprise. Lagos State Traffic Management Authority is an ...

Lauretta Onochie, denied her membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) three times, as the Special Assistant to President Buhari on Social Media, was screened by the senate. She was being screened as a national commission of INEC, a move ...

There was tension in Asaba, Delta State, on Thursday, following the killing of a yet-to-be-identified man by the police at the DLA Road, Asaba. Punch Metro gathered that some men, suspected to be Internet fraudsters, aka Yahoo boys, had driven ...

A 25 year-old final year student, Giwa Nurudeen, of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) was sentenced to three years imprisonment , after being found guilty of internet scam. He was arraigned by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and ...

There was heightened anxiety on Thursday, in Effurun, near Warri, Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, when a fuel tanker ran into dozens of students of Army Day Secondary School, killing many in the process. Army Day Secondary School ...

The lying-in-state ceremony held today at his church in Ikotun, Lagos. More photos below..    

Russia has recorded 24,818 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total of infections to 5,707,452 the federal response centre said on Thursday. “Over the past day, 24,818 Covid-19 cases were confirmed across 85 Russian regions, including ...

Plateau state has recorded 953 cases of Cholera, 14 deaths, 910 discharged cases, while 29 patients are receiving treatment in various health facilities across the state. Commissioner for Health, Dr Nimkong Lar disclosed the figures at a press briefing at ...

Airline operators in the country must refund the full cost of travel tickets to passengers after a two-hour delay, the Federal Government has said. Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made this known on Thursday at the weekly State House Briefing ...

The predicament of a set of twin sisters in the Likoko community in the English-speaking region of Cameroon has been revealed by a Facebook user, Ayisha Toginia. Toginia, who encountered the pregnant teenagers when they visited the Solidarity Hospital in ...

The Police Service Commission, PSC, on Thursday rejected the promotion of Ibrahim Magu, a former Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The commission said Magu would not be promoted until he is cleared at the office of ...

Sporadic gunshots have been fired at the Imo State House of Assembly Complex Although details of the gunfire are still sketchy, there are insinuations that it could be over the suspension of former House leader, Uche Ogbuagu and five other ...