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Despite calling off its two months nationwide strike, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has directed the Accountant-General not to pay judiciary workers for the first week of June in which the ‘no work-no pay policy’ was in force. In ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari is expected in Lagos today (Thursday) for a presidential visit to inaugurate the Mobolaji Junction Railway Station at Ebutte Meta. Governor Babbajide Sanwo-Olu is expected to receive the president for the commissioning of the project. Security ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is grilling a father, Isa Bola Bakare, and his son, Malik Giles Bakare over alleged conspiracy on computer-related fraud. They were apprehended for allegedly obtaining money by false pretence and retention of proceeds ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested nine suspected internet fraudsters at Gwagwalada New Layout area of Abuja, FCT. The suspects are: Teddy Agbam, Abdullahi Abdulsamad, Abdullahi Abdulrasheed, Ehije Miracle Julius, John Amajeh Stephen, Okorie Kalu ...

The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has suspended its two-month old strike. The body directed its members to resume work on Monday nationwide. The decision to suspend the strike was taken at its National Executive Council meeting held in ...

  The joint National Assembly Minority Caucus has called on Nigerians to ignore the ban on Twitter operations in the country by the federal government and continue using the microblogging platform. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu presented N500 million compensation to popular Nollywood actor, Babatunde Omidina, known as Baba Suwe and several others whose properties were demolished in Ikorodu to pave way for ongoing Igbogbo-Igbe Road expansion project. Sanwo-Olu presented the ...

The Senate on Wednesday referred the name of the Special Assistant on Social Media to the President, Lauretta Onochie, to its Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for screening as a National Commissioner of INEC representing Delta State. ...

A 27-year-old hairdresser identified as Hilda Asumani has been arrested by the police at Abesim in the Sunyani Municipality, Ghana for allegedly stabbing her lover to death after being denied grasscutter soup. The deceased, Prince Yaw Aboagye has reportedly been ...

Wife of Kaduna State Governor, Hajia Asia El-Rufai has said that Nigerians must sacrifice to end banditry and kidnapping, saying that, no ransom should be paid to her abductors if she is kidnapped. The Governor’s wife made the remarks in ...

The universities in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, have failed to make the 1300 tertiary institutions listed in the 2022 QS world university rankings. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a global higher education analyst, on Tuesday released the eighteenth edition of the ...

Abductors of Dr Dan Ella, a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Art, University of Jos (UNIJOS), have demanded N10 million to secure his release. Dr Lazarus Maigoro, Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) of the institution, ...

inspector General of Police Usman Baba Alkali says unhealthy inter-agency rivalry among security forces like the army, the SSS, and the police, among other agencies, is damaging Nigeria’s internal security. According to him, the trend had been of concern to ...

The National Population Commission (NPC) has said that it may conduct another national census in 2022. However, this is subject to the commission completing pre-census activities such as demarcation, administering questionnaire and seeking approval of the President. NPC Federal Commissioner ...

The Bayelsa Livestock Management Committee (BSLMC) has impounded 34 cows in Yenagoa, the state capital for violating the anti-open grazing law. Chairman of BSLMC, Mr David Alagoa, told journalists that the herders chose a convenient time in the night to ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and 176 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari-led -administration over what it called, “the unlawful suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, criminalization of Nigerians and other people using Twitter. In the ...

The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuffs and Cattle Dealers in Nigeria (AUFCDN) has threatened to resume its strike and cut off food supply nationwide to protest failure of the Federal Government to pay the N4.75 billion compensation agreed with them. The ...

Oxford University students decided to get rid of a portrait of the Queen because she ‘represents recent colonial history’. Graduate members of the Middle Common Room committee at Magdalen College came under fire after reportedly voting overwhelmingly for its removal. ...

A South African woman, has given birth to 10 babies and broken the Guinness World Record on the most children born at the same time.     Gosiame Thamara Sithole, welcomed her 10 babies on Monday, June 7, at a ...

Ex-president Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, has just congratulated Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari for banning the microblogging site, Twitter. In a statement, titled, ‘Statement by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States,’ he said, “Congratulations to ...

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has commiserated with the family of the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua better known as T.B Joshua. The Media Assistant to CAN President, Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, ...

  Maduabuchi Owuamanam’s wife has narrated how she tried to save her husband’s life by rushing him to three different hospitals after she was contacted to visit the scene. It was reported that an Igbo businessman and CEO of Blessed ...

The Oyo state command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced its resumption of receiving applications for new passports in the state. The new Comptroller of the command, Safiya Mohammed, announced this on Tuesday, in Ibadan, at a send ...

  The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Pauline Tallen, has accused entertainers of frustrating the government’s efforts at curbing the violation of women by promoting vulgar lyrics and using female dancers in a most disdainful manner. Tallen said ...

The Nigerian Police have dislodged the camp of Eastern Security Network, ESN, in Akabo, Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State. The operation was carried out on Tuesday by the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team led by DCP ...