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The United States Embassy in Nigeria has denied a press release promising a new type of work visa for Nigerian citizens aged 40 to 55.The press release had claimed that those eligible for the work visa are health workers, engineers, ...

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole is back to politics. The ex-Speaker today held a closed-door meeting with Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state at the latter’s office at Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta. Mr Bankole arrived the governor’s office ...

A 32-year-old Yusuf Saliu, has been arrested by the police for reportedly stealing a motorbike at the Dalemo Police Post in Mushin area of Lagos State. Saliu was said to have stolen the bike during the violent protest in October ...

A staff of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, named Fisayo Oyeniyi, has killed himself at his residence after sending a suicide text to his mother, wife, and children. It was gathered that Oyeniyi was one of the armed guards ...

Residents of Maiduguri were elated Wednesday evening when electricity was restored nearly two months after Boko Haram blew up power supply lines. The attack on January 26 was the third time in a month that militants from the IS-linked Islamic ...

The US has now surpassed 30 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University. Coronavirus cases nationwide reached 30,001,245 on Wednesday, nearly three months after the country hit 20 million. COVID-19 related deaths now total ...

North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, says the US and Japan – the first such test since Joe Biden became US president. Pyongyang is banned from testing ballistic missiles, considered threatening weapons, under UN ...

A 12-year-old girl, Rejoice Ukpabi, has been electrocuted after touching a high voltage cable allegedly abandoned by the officials of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company from the Apo office in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. SaharaReporters learnt that the incident occurred ...

End Modern Slavery of Engage Now Africa (ENA) has helped to secure justice for a 12-year-old girl who was allegedly defiled by an Imam at Mameng, a village at Kwahyia in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Justice Effia Addison sentenced ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 96 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 162,178. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. “On the 24th of ...

The Ondo state government has ordered a refund of monies paid by parents whose children are to write the 2021 West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). According to NAN, Lola Amuda, permanent secretary, ministry of education, science and technology, ...

The Police Command in Katsina has arrested a 43-year-old man, Muhammad Abba, who was exposed by his wife for allegedly looting women’s shoes during the Monday morning inferno at the Katsina Central Market. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Gambo ...

The Senator, who represented Kaduna Central between 2015 and 2019, Shehu Sani, has said bandits subject their victims to sexual assault on a daily basis. In a tweet, Sani said everything must be done to secure the release of the ...

A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has berated the national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for donating money to victims of the fire disaster which engulfed Katsina Central Market. Tinubu had on ...

Pen!ses are shrinking and genitals becoming malformed because of pollution, an environmental scientist has warned in a new book detailing the challenges facing human reproduction. Dr Shanna Swan writes that humanity is facing an “existential crisis” in fertility rates as ...

                The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), Western Marine Command, on Wednesday, said it lost an officer in a boat mishap on Monday. The Public Relations Officer, Idaho Sulaiman, disclosed this in a statement ...

Recently sworn–in President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu, has noted that she is submissive and kneels before her husband when she was even vice president and nothing will change as President. Samia Suluhu became the first female president of the East ...

Yusuf Buhari, the son of President Muhammadu Buhari, and Zahra Bayero, the daughter of Emir of Bichi in Kano State Nasir Bayero, are set to tie the knot.   Daily Nigerian reports that the wedding ceremony will take place “in ...

The Presidency dismissed reports alleging a gulf between President Buhari and the APC national Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In a statement rolled out Buhari’s spokesman, Garba Shehu, the Presidency described Tinubu as Buhari’s strong ally. It said reports of ...

Leader of the Pan-Yoruba Socio-Cultural Organisation, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo has said there will be no 2023 if President Muhammadu Buhari did not restructure Nigeria. He said Buhari must restructure Nigeria before any election could take place. Adebanjo stated that ...

A Catholic school on Long Island, New York, has forced the White headmaster of the school to resign following reports that he had a Black student kneel before a teacher in apology last month. The headmaster called the form of ...

A principal and two teachers of a school in Benue State have been accused of brutalising a student just for missing ca class. A social media user who is an ex-student of the school posted the news saying, they used ...

The Public Health Department of the Federal Capital Territory Authority has warned that river blindness is endemic in Abuja’s six councils. The health department announced that it had commenced an annual house-to-house treatment of river blindness elephantiasis for persons above ...

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, has claimed he was jailed from preventing him to become the President come 2023. He said he was imprisoned because there were people worried that he would be Nigeria’s next president. Mr ...

General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman has disclosed that he has forgiven everyone who has hurt him as part of resolutions on his 50th birthday.   The clergyman who turned 50 today disclosed in a tweet on ...