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  Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami has reacted to the ban of open grazing in the Southern region of the country. In an interview with Channels TV on May 19, Malami said that banning of open grazing in the ...

  bidemi Rufai, the 42-year-old suspended aide of Governor Dapo Abiodun lost a generous opportunity to be released on bail by a New York court on Wednesday, but he lacked a surety who was ready to post a $300,000 bond. ...

  Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar says Nigeria’s unity should be maintained, urging the 36 governors in the country to come up with solutions to resolve current crises and not wait on President Muhammadu Buhari. “We have no choice, considering ...

  The Kaduna state government has said that power is yet to be restored in the state despite the suspension of strike by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC).   The NLC which embarked on a five-day industrial to protest the recent disengagement of ...

  The United Kingdom has vowed to reject the visa applications of any Nigerian who is found guilty of electoral violence during the 2023 general elections. The 2019 election was marred by notable electoral violence in major parts of the ...

A viral photo which has Leticia Kyere Pinamang, the student of Miracle Senior High School, Ghana who committed suicide and her family has popped up on social media. The photo captured an adorable family of six who posed for the camera. ...

  A South African woman who has been living with HIV for 22 years took to Twitter to celebrate. Sharing a beautiful photo of herself, @MMancobeni celebrated her feat for living with the virus for 22 years. She Wrote; “22 ...

Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation, has revealed that the new national carrier will commence operation in the first quarter of 2022. Sirika made this known on Wednesday while speaking to State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council ...

A bill seeking to prohibit the payment and receipt of ransom for the release of any person kidnapped, imprisoned or wrongfully confined in the country was on Wednesday May 19 considered by the Nigerian senate. The bill titled Terrorism Prevention ...

  A former Jigawa Chief Judge Aminu Sabo Ringim has died in a lone accident in Shafar village, Ringim Local Government Area of the state. Mr Adamu Shehu, the Public Relations Officer, Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil ...

Obvious inter-agency rivalry between the police and the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission played out in the early hours of Tuesday during a sting operation by the anti-graft agency to arrest some suspected Internet fraudsters in Osogbo, ...

President Emmanuel Macron of France has pledged to support Nigeria combat insecurity bedeviling the Lake Chad basin area and the entire stretch of the Sahel region. Macron spoke at a bilateral meeting between him and President Muhammadu Buhari. The meeting ...

  A Senior Special Assistant to the Ogun State Governor, Abidemi Rufai, faces up to 30 years in prison if he is convicted of wire fraud. According to the United States Department of Justice, wire fraud is punishable by up ...

Former Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed has opened up on why he visited the headquarter of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in Abuja. The former governor said he was not arrested or grilled over alleged N9 billion ...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has asked the Senate to approve another N2.3trillion ($6.18bn) external loan. This is contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and read at plenary on Tuesday. Buhari said the ...

An elderly woman thought to be dead woke up moments before being cremated. Shakuntala Gaikwad tested positive for Covid-19 at the beginning of May and isolated at her home in Baramati in Mudhale, India. When the 78-year-old started to develop ...

The Chairman, House Committee on Lands, Representing Ikeja II Constituency at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Adedamola Kasunmu, has recently revealed the plans of the Lagos state house to pass a bill, recognising a special holiday for the ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday gave Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine the nod for conditional emergency use for Nigerians from 18 years Director-General of the agency, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, made this ...

The Senate, on Tuesday, urged the Federal Ministry of Education, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to review the implementation of its policy making the National Identification Number (NIN) a mandatory requirement for ...

A 16-year-old final year student of Miracle Senior High School at Barkoniaba in the Sunyani municipality of the Bono Region, Ghana has allegedly committed suicide. Leticia Kyere Pinaman is alleged to have been found hanging at the school’s dining hall ...

Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai has sacked all nurses below Level 14, who abandoned their duty posts to participate in the strike spearheaded by the Nigeria Labour Congress. He also threatened to sack lecturers of the Kaduna State University (KASU), who ...

  Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has dissolved the State Executive Council and sacked all the commissioners and political appointees. Former Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu made this known today. Aniagwu said the decision was taken after Tuesday’s state executive ...

  The Comptroller-General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede, has announced the suspension of receiving and processing of all fresh passport applications nationwide until June 1. Babandede, while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, said that a new passport ...

  The Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado-Bayero, and scores of other passengers escaped death after the engine of a Max Air aircraft flying the Kano-Abuja route failed. Daily Nigerian reports that the fault was noticed 10 minutes after take-off from ...

Gunmen have reportedly invaded a Sharia Court in Bauren Zakat village in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State and kidnapped a judge identified as Alhaji Husaini Sama’ila. It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 3pm on Tuesday. ...