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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said it would sustain its current N162-N165 petrol price until the conclusion of talks with labour and other stakeholders. Dr. Kennie Obateru, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, said the Corporation, ...

  The FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has advised FCT residents to prepare for the rainy season and avoid environmental practices that could lead to flooding in the territory. The Director-General of FCT FEMA, Abass Idris, gave the advice in ...

The Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab has killed at least three civilians, including a mother, her infant, during an attack on the United Nations and African Union headquarters in Somalia’s capital,  Mogadishu. At least five others were injured during the mortar ...

A Chadian lady, Vivien Tarmadji has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. Tarmadji was arrested while trying to board an Ethiopian airline flight 911 en route ...

In a bid to ensure strict compliance with tax payment, the Federal Inland Revenue Service says it is working towards adopting the National Identification Number (NIN) database to ramp up the registration of taxpayers. The move was disclosed by the ...

A group has petitioned the Lagos House of Assembly on the high cost of Covid-19 test in private laboratories. The group, Coalition against High Cost of Covid-19 Test in Lagos (COHCTL), in a statement signed by its co-convener, Dotun Atilade ...

No fewer than 30 students spent time at the hospital as a result of uncertain sickness which hit the Government Girls College (GGC), Sokoto. Dr Abdurrahaman Dantsoho, the Director of Public Health in Sokoto state ministry of health, disclosed this ...

Bill Gates has predicted that the world will be “completely back to normal” from the Covid-19 pandemic by the end of 2022. The Microsoft founder said the health crisis has been an “incredible tragedy,” but one bright spot has been ...

The University of Aberdeen says it will return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria within weeks, one of the first public institutions to do so more than a century after Britain looted the sculptures and auctioned them to Western museums and ...

Bandits have ambushed and killed 20 vigilantes in Kotonkoro village of Mariga Local Government Area, Niger State. A reliable source close to the community also said the bandits on Wednesday night attacked a military base, killed one soldier and injured ...

The Owerri building of the spokesperson of a former governor of Imo state, Sam Onwuemeodo, has been marked for demolition by officials of the state government. Onwuemeodo, who served Rochas Okorocha as Chief Press Secretary between 2013 and 2019 is ...

The police in Lagos on Thursday released an American lady, Kari R’ouke, who was arrested and kept in custody over the death of her Nigerian host, Ayomide Michael. R’ouke’s lawyer, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN), announced his client’s release in a ...

New Zealand lawmakers passed legislation on Wednesday granting mothers and their partners paid leave following a miscarriage or stillbirth.   The legislation, which passed parliament unanimously, provides three days of bereavement to employees who suffer tragic pregnancy outcomes. New Zealand ...

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday night blasted what he called “softball” questions asked by reporters during President Joe Biden’s first press conference earlier in the day. Speaking to Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Trump said Biden’s presser was like ...

Arinzechukwu Onwurah a Nigerian has won a Student Union election at a Sweden University. Onwurah won the Student Union President election in Malmo University. He was the only African to contest the election and well he WON.     The ...

The Lagos State Police Command has started an investigation into the killing of two friends at a party in the Mafoluku area of Oshodi, Lagos State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said the police were searching ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 97 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 162,275.   The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday.   “97 new ...

. Nigeria is as peaceful as Gambia, South Korea, Slovak, Australia, Bagladesh and Guinea Bissau, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. . . The president said this in Abuja, while receiving letters of credence from the envoys of the six countries, ...

  The Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu has said he felt no side effect after taking the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. He urged all Lagosians to take advantage of the COVID-19 vaccination opportunity provided by the State government across 88 healthcare ...

Two brothers, Isaac Sunday and Isaac Lucky, as well as their accomplice, Ovie Nana Friday, have been sentenced to death by hanging for stealing. They were said to have committed the offence in December 2013 by robbing many residents of ...

The Adamawa State Polytechnic Yola (SPY) has been shut down. This followed violence, which resulted from what was supposed to be a celebration by some graduating students. The students were said to have taken to the busy street along which ...

Kolawole Owoade, the father of late Adewale Owoade, on Thursday, narrated how officials of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) murdered his son. Owoade was led in evidence by his counsel, Diekola Rufai, when he appealed before the Oyo State ...

The Presidency has reacted to reports that a Nigerian pharmacist, Solomon Akuma, has been remanded in prison for criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari.A report by Sahara Reporters disclosed that Solomon has been in detention for over a year for criticising Buhari. ...

A High Court in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State on Thursday, sentenced a professor of the University of Calabar, Peter Ogban, to three years in prison for announcing false election result during the 2019 general elections. The professor of science ...

After years of false starts, New York state lawmakers said Wednesday that they had reached an agreement to legalize the sale of marijuana for recreational use by adults starting next year. State Sen. Liz Krueger said lawmakers were finalizing a ...