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The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has arrived Abuja on her first official visit. Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, was among those who received her at the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a stern warning to terrorists and bandits targeting schools, saying the country will not allow the destruction of the school system. The president gave the warning in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on ...

A serving policeman, ASP Danladi Edibo, attached to the anti-cult unit in Enugwu-Ukwu, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, has allegedly handcuffed and detained a 22-year-old man, Mr. Chukwunonso Ikenna Ogbukagu, for disapproving his relationship with his mother, Mrs. ...

Nigerian Author, Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka has received his first dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.   The vaccine was administered by Tomi Coker, Ogun state commissioner for health.

Kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Kaduna, have appealed to the Government not to use force to rescue them as their captors warned that such moves would lead to the killing of all the students. Benson Emmanuel, ...

The Supreme Court has affirmed the 10-year jail term of former Governor Joshua Dariye for criminal breach of trust. The judgment read by Justice Helen Ogunwumiju on behalf of the Mary Odili panel (a five-person panel) held that the Appeal ...

A 38-year-old lecturer at the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, Adebisi Ademola, was on Friday sentenced to six months imprisonment for his involvement in romance scam. Justice Sikiru Oyinloye, of the Kwara state high court sitting in Ilorin, ...

The family of George Floyd and city of Minneapolis have agreed a record $27million settlement to resolve the lawsuit filed against the city and four cops involved in his death. It is the largest pre-trial wrongful death settlement in US ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has arrested 57 internet fraud suspects in Ilaro, Ogun State, with two pump action rifles recovered from some of them on Friday. The agency said in a statement by its spokesperson, ...

Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo, has narrated how she was r3ped four times and in her husband’s house. Ojo in a recent episode titled: “Bare it all with I Y’ on her YouTube page, said that she was first raped at ...

The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Olukayode Popoola has announced a six weeks partial closure of the Falomo Bridge in Victoria Island from Sunday for repairs. Popoola in a statement on Friday night appealed for understanding of road ...

The Kaduna State government has said that 180 citizens, many of whom were students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Igabi local government area of Kaduna State have been rescued by the troops of the Nigerian Army in ...

The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has directed the Muslim Ummah to look out for the new moon of Sha’aban 1442AH from Saturday. Abubakar made the call on Friday in a statement by Prof. Sambo Junaidu, Chairman, Advisory Committee ...

The Lagos State judicial panel hearing cases of police brutality and SARS-related abuses has awarded a petitioner, Marc Chidibere Nwadi the sum on N7.5 million. Chidiebere Nwadi first appeared before the panel on Saturday, November 28 before the panel where ...

South African Police, on Thursday, arrested five persons in connection with the collapse of VBS Mutual Bank, the country’s biggest banking scandal in recent years. The Police said the suspects were arrested in an early-dawn raid at various places in ...

Precious Chikwedu, former wife of Femi Fani-Kayode has broken her silence over her affair with the former aviation minister. In a tell-all statement, the former beauty queen detailed her relationship since she met Fani-Kayode, how he often turned her into ...

The Federal Government, Friday, apologized to Nigerians over the latest N212.61 petrol price confusion in the country. Speaking at the groundbreaking for the Rungas composite cylinder manufacturing plant in Alaro City Free Zone, Epe, the Minister of State for Petroleum ...

The General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries International Apostle Johnson Suleman has refuted claims that he owns three private jets.Apostle Suleman took to social media to share a photo of Archbishop Benson Idahosa to celebrate him on the anniversary ...

A man has taken to Twitter to narrate how his fiancée, Precious Patrick Ibor who was travelling from Calabar to Ibadan, were kidnapped by “criminal herders” alongside other female passengers.He explained that he had spoken with her at 7:37pm on ...

Goodwill Zwelithini, the controversial but revered king of the Zulus, South Africa’s largest ethnic group, died on Friday aged 72 after weeks in the hospital for a diabetes-related illness, the royal palace announced. The king wielded great influence among millions ...

Kennedy Ibeh, the member representing Obowo State Constituency in Imo State House of Assembly, has sponsored a bill to regulate the outrageous cost of customary marriages in Imo State. Ibeh, while presenting the bill for the second reading on Wednesday ...

The police in Rivers State have arrested a father of four, Favour Ibama, for allegedly r3ping and stealing from some women in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. A spokesperson for the state police command, SP Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed this while parading ...

Justice P. Mallong of the Kaduna Federal High Court has ordered the remand of one Collins Samuel in a custodial centre for allegedly defrauding the United States of America of the sum of $8,000. Samuel, under the guise of being ...

The World Boxing Federation (WBF) Super featherweight Champion, Ridwan Scorpion Oyekola was lucky to have escaped death following an attack on his vehicle by gunmen moments after being presented a 10 million naira cheque at Oyo State government secretariat on ...

About 1 in 5 Americans say they lost a loved one to Covid-19, according to a new poll, as Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the pandemic.   The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found ...