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  Former Vice president of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has condemned the ban placed on cryptocurrency transactions in Nigeria by the federal government led by President Muhammadu Buhari warning that urgent steps must be taken to opening up the economy and create ...

  Residents of Daura road, Kaduna North local government area of Kaduna State were thrown into mourning when the news of a 16-year-old boy, Bright Haruna, who allegedly hung himself after being scolded by his father, filtered the neighbourhood. Findings ...

US President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday offered its “strong support” to Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to lead the World Trade Organisation, AFP reports. The move marks another sharp split with former President Donald Trump who paralysed the organisation and opposed ...

Some suspected Fulani herdsmen have reportedly killed a farmer, Mr Dayo Ibiye, on his farm at Ajowa Akoko in the Akoko North West Local Government Area of Ondo State on Friday. The deceased was said to be a cousin of ...

The World Health Organisation-led COVAX global initiative has failed to shortlist Nigeria for the Pfizer vaccines following its inability to meet the standard requirement of storing the vaccines at the required -70 degrees Celsius. The Nigerian government had stated that ...

For the second time, soldiers from 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, Ogun State, have visited some villages in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State, where they had earlier brutalised residents at the instance of some herdsmen. In a report ...

Adamu Garba, a former presidential aspirant, has opined that investing in cows is better any form of cryptocurrency business. Garba was lending his voice to the latest instruction to Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), other Financial Institutions (OFIs) and Non-Bank Financial ...

No fewer than four (4) operatives of the Oyo State Security Network Agency also known as Amotekun have been hospitalized. The operatives were attacked by some hoodlums in Ona Ara Local Government area on Friday. They have been hospitalized as ...

Anambra State Government has imposed curfew to stop further spread of COVID-19 in the State The State Governor, Willie Obiano, has equally ordered workers from levels 1-12 to vacate offices and start working from home with effect from Monday. Also, ...

                Some Gunmen have killed one Kenneth Emekwasianya; his wife, Grace; their daughter, Chioma, and Emeka Ntukokwu, a secondary school teacher, in a Seven-Day Adventist Church in Azia, Anambra State. According to an ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has directed Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), Other Financial Institutions (OFIs) and Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) local financial institutions against having any transactions in crypto or facilitating payments for crypto exchanges. The apex bank disclosed ...

A former pastor with the Omega Fire Ministries International, Mike Davids, has filed a suit against the General Overseer of the church, Apostle Johnson Suleman, and the church for N2billion, for allegedly meddling in his marriage, which he described as ...

Abia Government on Thursday placed a ban on public gatherings as part of efforts to tackle the rising cases of coronavirus in the state. Mr Chris Ezem, Chairman of Abia COVID-19 Inter-ministerial Committee, announced this at a stakeholders meeting in ...

                The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has continued to put the heat on drug traffickers with the latest arrest of a businessman at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. And another ...

President Joe Biden announced “America is back” on Thursday and declared that “diplomacy is back at the center” of US foreign policy as he said the US will end all support for Saudi Arabia’s offensive operations in Yemen, one of ...

  The Association of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (AWLWHAN) has expressed concern over stigma from the society, saying its members have been battling discrimination. The National Coordinator of the group, Mrs Helen Akpan, expressed the position in an ...

A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, has upheld the Lagos State government’s right to restrict commercial motorcycles (Okada) and tricycles (Keke Marwa) within six local government areas and nine Local Council Development areas, LCDAs, in the state. Justice Mohammed ...

A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced two persons, Moshood Ogunshola and Wasiu Lekan to death for armed robbery in Lagos.   Justice S. S Ogunsanya delivered the judgement in charge No.ID/359C/13 between Lagos State vs Moshood ...

As the kick-off date of the Lagos State’s Bus Reform Initiative approaches, commercial bus (popularly known as Danfo) drivers in the state have expressed mixed feelings over the project. While some of the drivers agreed to buy into the initiative, ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,340 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 136,030.   The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Thursday. “1340 new cases ...

A man in Kaduna has allegedly dragged a random babe to a Customary court after he sent her N5000.   According to his friend who shared the news on twitter –@WizzaFarukk  — his friend had sent the lady who was ...

The Kano State Islamic Police Corps, Hisbah and Kano State Road Traffic Authority (KAROTA) have arrested an inspector of the Nigerian Police Force for purchasing beer. A source told SaharaReporters that the police officer, popularly known as OC Gulder, is ...

A man has died after jumping from the 7th floor of 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos. A resident told The Punch that the deceased jumped from an apartment at Block D5 during a raid by the Economic and Financial ...

A heavy downpour accompanied by a whirlwind in most parts of Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital damaged many buildings and property. The rain which started at about 8:00 pm on Wednesday night, came with heavy breeze felling electric poles, trees ...

The UK may never get fully back to how it was before the pandemic with masks worn for years, a top virologist has warned. While fears over mutant strains of Covid-19 could see Brits locked out of concert stadiums, sporting ...