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The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has urged the Federal Government to provide adequate funding for the construction of the Lagos-Badagry Express way, saying it serves as a trans-West African route. Sanwo-Olu said this while receiving the House of ...

The President, National Association of Nigerian Students, Sunday Asefon, on Tuesday, lamented the worsening insecurity in the country and the ripple effects on students who fell victim to kidnapping and banditry at will. Asefon, who bemoaned the kidnap of over ...

The Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has suspended one of its lecturers, Dr. Jonathan Mbachaga, over alleged sexual harassment. Mbachaga was, until his suspension, an Associate Professor in the institution’s Department of Theatre and Media Arts. A statement signed by the ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has said that those who want to destroy his government will suffer the shock of their lives as they will be treated in a language they can understand. The president made this known on Tuesday after ...

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday said no administration in the history of Nigeria has done so much with little like the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has been doing since inception in 2015. Mohammed ...

The Police Command in Lagos said it had rearrested one Oyemachi Maduabuchi who escaped from the Owerri Correctional Centre in Imo. According to a statement signed by the Police Spokesperson in Lagos, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Maduabuchi, who escaped after a ...

Students of the Kaduna State University (KASU) on Tuesday blocked the main road leading to the Government House in Kaduna, the state capital in protest over an increase in their tuition fees. The state-owned tertiary institution recently announced an increase ...

  The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and his former Commissioner for Chieftaincy and Community Affairs, John Bazia, traded words on Monday over the recent defections between the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress in the state. ...

An English teacher at an Alabama high school has died by apparent suicide two days after she was arrested for allegedly having s.e.x with two students. Leslie Gillespie, 44, was found dead in her home in Hillsboro at around 11.30am ...

Gen. Katumba Wamal, Ugandan Minister of Works and Transport, on Tuesday survived an assassination attempt, the local broadcaster NBS News has reported. The news outlet, however, said that Wamal lost his daughter in the failed assassination attempt. According to the ...

The Presidential Steering Committee, (PSC) on COVID-19 has announced that it would deactivate the international passports of Nigerians who flouted the 2021 Health Safety Regulations as its concerns travel advisory. The PSC Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the ...

Coronavirus variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid misreporting and stigmatising nations where they were first detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced. The new system applies to variants of concern – the ...

Armed robbers numbering about 20 were said to have invaded Alaafia Estate at the Orogun area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, dispossessing residents of their money and other valuables. It was gathered that the hoodlums used Point of Sale ...

An irate Italian woman was filmed attacking another female passenger during an argument about facemasks on a Ryanair flight from Ibiza to Milan. The woman lashed out at flight crew as she was dragged off the plane. The flight required ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Babagana Kingibe as his special envoy to Chad and the Lake Chad Basin region. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this in a statement he issued on Monday in Abuja. ...

The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar, has warned National Youth Service Corps members posted to Sokoto that the northern state is not safe amid the continued deterioration of insecurity across the country. The Muslim spiritual leader also described Nigerians calling ...

Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, has dissolved the State Executive Council with immediate effect. The Governor’s Special Adviser on Public Enlightenment, Media and Communications, Zailani Bappa, announced this in a statement on Monday. He disclosed that the Secretary to the ...

Unknown gunmen on Monday night stormed the residence of Professor Godswill Obioma, strangling him in what his wife suspected to be an assassination. “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” Elizabeth Obioma told Peoples Gazette ...

Kate Middleton wants to patch up with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for the sake of Archie’s relationship with his cousins, a royal expert claims. Royal commentator Camilla Tominey said the Duchess of Cambridge “remained keen to bury the hatchet” ...

The dreaded COVID-19 pandemic has killed 28 Nigerians in the last 24 hours, with new cases soaring again to send fresh panic across the nation. Figures released by the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC late Monday night revealed that ...

Ilorin-based Islamic scholar and preacher, Abdullahi Mustapha Berende, who was arrested over alleged links with Al-Qaeda, has regained freedom after nine years in detention. In 2012, he was picked up by DSS operatives who accused him of terrorism and espionage. ...

  The chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Buba Marwa, says the NDLEA is currently investigating N30bn slush funds believed to be proceeds of drugs. He disclosed this in Abuja on Monday while giving commendation letters to 45 ...

Residents protesting killings in Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State blocked major roads in the area on Monday. The protesters formed six groups along the 60 km Gusau-Kaura Namoda road and lit bonfires on Sabon Garin Kaura Namoda, ...

A 30-year-old woman has been allegedly raped while searching for a shop to rent in Ogun State. The victim was reportedly raped by a 42-year-old man, John Daniel, who offered to help her get a container to use as a ...

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