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Mali’s constitutional court has installed military coup leader, Colonel Assimi Goïta, as transitional president. The court explained that its decision followed the “vacancy in the presidency”. Goïta had declared himself interim president on Wednesday, two days after seizing power, the ...

Mrs. Remi Tinubu, wife of All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says she does not report anyone to her husband also known as the Jagaban but rather, she fights for herself. The Senator representing Lagos Central Oloko made this ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has received his second dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The President took the shot on Saturday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The second dose is being administered exactly 12 weeks after the first shot was ...

A commuter, Adebayo Olanrewaju, has narrated the moment a truck at Okegbegun, along Sagamu Road, Ikorodu, Lagos, lost control and climbed over a tricycle conveying four passengers. Olanrewaju, who claimed to have witnessed the incident, told City Round that the ...

Armed men suspected to be Fulani militias have reportedly killed 36 residents of Shikaan Mbagena Kpav community in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State. AllBaze Media gathered that the incident occurred on Thursday night when the armed men invaded ...

A fuel-laden tanker caught fire on Friday at the Otedola Bridge around the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. It was gathered that first responders have arrived at the scene and have curtailed the fire. No casualty was recorded as of the time of ...

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has seized jewellery worth N14 billion from former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Allison-Madueke. EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, made this known at the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the assessment and status ...

There are indications that the Lagos State Government may be constrained to close the multi-billion naira Ladipo International Spare Parts Market in Mushin over alleged environmental infractions. The market, a major contributor to the state’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), has ...

Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed appeared before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the assessment and status of recovered loot. The chairman of the committee, Adeogun Adejoro, said that it was necessary for the committee to know the ...

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted cloudiness and sunshine from Friday to Sunday. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Thursday in Abuja, predicted partly cloudy to sunny skies over the Northern region during the morning hours on Friday. According to ...

The Nigerian government has again publicly declared a total of 132 travellers as “persons of interest,” for allegedly violating new protocols put in place to halt the spread of the dreaded coronavirus disease in the country. A statement issued on ...

  Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River has said that aligning with the All Progressives Congress (APC) party would bring federal assistance to the state. While addressing the youths who held a rally to welcome him to the party at ...

Forty-six dead bodies of over 200 passengers who drowned after a boat carrying artisanal miners and traders capsized in Tsihuwan Labata in Ngaski Local Government Area of Kebbi State. The boat was travelling to Kebbi State from Niger State. Out ...

The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the parents of children convicted for cultism will also face punitive measures. Sanwo-Olu stated this on Thursday during the Children’s Day celebration at the Police College, Ikeja, addressing pupils and students. ...

Governor Kayode Fayemi has suspended the College of Health Sciences and Technology provost Cecilia Adebayo over 100 students who took ill following firefighters’ fumigation of the school. The suspension was announced in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti by Yinka Oyebode, ...

A US-based Nigerian, Eyinaya Ogbonna, who came to build a gas station in Abia State, Nigeria has been killed by a member of vigilante group in the state. The Rivers State Police Command has arrested and paraded Okorie Chukwuma for ...

  A woman is fighting for her life after she was beaten, gang r*ped and left hanging n*ked from an electricity pole in India, it has been reported. The victim was left for dead after she was ambushed by a ...

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a suspected internet frauster who allegedly tried to buy a Range Rover worth N44million with Bitcoin The suspect identified as Tobiloba Aramide Ogundiyan is accused by the EFCC’s Advance Fee ...

  A Nigerian man identified as Anthony Oregon has died after he was bitten by a poisonous snake friends claimed was sent by someone. According to Shadrack Okpomhe on Facebook, someone called the deceased to inform him that pigs were feeding ...

  Haraja Usman Baba, the president of the Police Officers Wives Association (POWA) and wife of the Inspector-General of Police, says she will remove beer parlours from police barracks, threatening to evict errant officers. “We are going to send signals ...

Facebook has lifted a ban on posts claiming Covid-19 was man-made, following a resurgence of interest in the “lab leak” theory of the disease’s onset. The social network says its new policy comes “in light of ongoing investigations into the ...

Zamfara Government has said that repentant bandits have surrendered 203 sophisticated firearm, under the state government peace accord. The Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs, Alhaji Garba Dauran, made this known to newsmen in Gusau. Dauran also said that 2,566 ...

The Nigerian Naira has suffered two consecutive days of melt down in the unofficial market as it tumbles by about N17 for each dollar. The market had some semblance of stability for weeks, selling and buying at between N480-485. But ...

  Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana on Thursday said Nigeria is on the verge of collapse as the 2023 general election is threatened in view of series of attacks on INEC offices. Falana spoke at the final sitting of the ...

The World Bank has approved a $700 million loan for the Nigeria Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (SURWASH). In a statement released yesterday, the bank said the credit will provide six million people with basic ...