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The Federal Government has made provision in the 2021 budget to pay for the vaccination of around 103 million Nigerians or 50 percent of the population against Covid-19. Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation Ben Akabueze made this ...

  The US House of Representative passed on Tuesday evening a resolution urging Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to expel President Donald Trump from office.   Pence has said he would not yield to the calls. The Democratic-run ...

Hitmaker Eminem’s eldest daughter Alaina Mathers likes to keep a low profile life.The 27-year-old and her sister Whitney were adopted by Lose Yourself singer Eminem – real name Marshall Bruce Mathers III – back in the 90s. Alaina is biologically ...

Two persons suspected to be husband and wife were on Tuesday crushed to death in an accident involving a Toyota Camry car, Sino truck and a motorcycle around Odogbara, few metres from NNPC on the Sagamu-Ogijo road. Babatunde Akinbiyi, Spokesperson, ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has welcomed efforts by a team of Nigerian scientists investigating the efficacy of Ivermectin drug in the treatment of COVID-19. The team, which is composed of Nigerian scholars at home and abroad, has also submitted its ...

All is not well in the home of Adam Nuru, the controversial Managing Director of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), as his wife, identified as Hauwa, has allegedly concluded plans to divorce him. Family sources told SaharaReporters that Hauwa has ...

The corps member who stabbed a young man to death in Akwa Ibom has said she did it in self-defence.   Princess Odume, the accused person, has been remanded in police custody since Sunday after neighbours caught her trying to ...

No fewer than three persons lost their lives, while four others sustained injuries on Tuesday, as a container fell on an 18-seater bus at Celica area on Ibadan-Ife expressway, Ibadan. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander in Oyo ...

Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ore, Ondo State has remanded 36-year-old Peter Moses in a correctional centre for raping and impregnating his teenage daughter. According to police prosecutor, Inspector Jimoh Amuda, Moses committed the offence between November 2020 and January ...

A truck has been set ablaze in Saki, a town in Oyo State for allegedly killing one person. Daily Post gathered that the truck which was conveying some cattle was burnt for allegedly killing a young boy in the town ...

Some suspected Eiye cultists have reportedly killed a member of Aiye confraternity, Michael Jayeola in Ogun State.The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, informed that the Aiye and Eiye confraternities had been terrorising Ijebu-Ode and its environs, as they ...

A bartender, Godwin Job, was on Tuesday sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally withdrawing the sum of N1,079,290 from a bank account belonging to his boss, Olufemi Joseph Odusanya. Job, 35, was convicted by Justice Bayo Taiwo of ...

Sarah Ofili-Adukeh’s mom is 67 today and her daughter has shared how God saved her life 3 years ago. Sarah recounted the scary experience on Instagram. She said she and her mother had flown to France to attend her brother’s ...

Uganda’s communications regulator has ordered internet service providers to shut down social media and messaging services, just two days before a tense presidential election.   In a letter seen by news agencies on Tuesday, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Executive Director ...

After weeks of criticism, Bayelsa state Governor, Douye Diri has finally bowed to pressure. The Governor has now removed BBN’s Nengi whom he had earlier named Face of Bayelsa Girl Child and announced Ebizi Blessing Eradiri as the New Face of ...

Ogun State government on Monday said it has opened an Oxygen Therapy Center to avoid a situation of scarcity of the life-saving consumable. The State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, who made this known in Abeokuta, said that the ...

A former House of Representatives Speaker Dimeji Bankole will on Friday 15 January tie the nuptial knot with Miss Aisha Shinkafi Saidu, daughter of Kebbi Governor, Atiku Bagudu. Bankole, who divorced his first wife in 2017, has been a much ...

A former Edo State Commissioner for Establishment, Labour and Special Duties, Comrade Didi Adodo, is dead.   Adodo died on Tuesday morning after battling with COVID-19 complications for days. Until his death, he was the General Secretary of the The ...

The court-martial sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State capital has sentenced Trooper Azunna Maduabuchi to death by firing squad for killing the adjutant of his unit, one Lieutenant Babakaka Ngorgi. Trooper Maduabuchi was arraigned for murder after shooting Lieutenant Ngorgi in ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the country is now reaching a critical level, adding that the hospital capacity will no longer be able to cope with more serious Covid-19 cases. The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, ...

Former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, is stranded in the United Arab Emirate (UAE), after he tested positive for Covid-19, Mr Kanu Agabi, SAN, told a Federal High Court in Abuja. Agabi, a ...

Nigeria Navy Ship, Pathfinder, Iwofe, Port Harcourt, Rivers State is in a deep face off with its host, Iwofe Community, over the alleged arrest of chiefs and elders of the area.   It was gathered that selected leaders of the ...

The Coordinator of the Nigeria Defence headquarters (DHQ) media operation, John Enenche, says the armed forces have ”checkmated” the activities and operations of Boko Haram in the North-East. Enenche said this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ...

Twitter announced Monday it has suspended “more than 70,000 accounts” linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory following the attack on the US Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters. The social network began its purge Friday, shortly after ...

The mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for Mali, former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, as the head of a high-level delegation, arrived in Bamako on Monday afternoon, official sources told PANA. The two-day visit is a ...