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Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state has lamented that Nigeria is not collecting as much public revenue as it can.   He says that there is still much potential for growing Value Added Tax (VAT) and independent revenues of the ...

A woman, Hajiya Habiba Aliyu, has filed a civil suit before the Federal High Court, Kano, seeking N250m damages against a textile firm and five others for alleged infringement on the rights of her deceased daughter, Nafisa Aliyu.   Habiba ...

                      Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers on Wednesday morning kidnapped a middle-aged woman, Mrs. Grace Ameh, after shooting her husband.   An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, told The Nation the ...

A man — Kofi Adjei Fosu, who sponsored himself through school has just graduated as the best student of his faculty — Law Faculty. Kofi who ride tricycle and also sold sachet water in order to pay his school fees ...

Edo Judicial Panel of Inquiry commenced sitting on Thursday in Edo State with the first petitioner demanding whereabouts of his son who has gone ‘missing’ since 2011 when he allegedly was taken into police custody.   The Petitioner, Isaac Edoh ...

A Petroleum storage tank at one of the depots in Marine beach, Apapa area of Lagos State is currently on fire.   The fire broke out Thursday afternoon. The Petroleum storage tank reportedly belongs to Oando Plc. As at the ...

69 suspected looters arrested in Osun State have been arraigned at the State High Court, Osogbo and subsequently remanded in Ilesa Custodial Centre.   According to the Osun State Police Command, eight suspects are still under investigation. The suspects were ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently in a closed-door meeting with traditional rulers from across the country.   The members of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (NCTRN) are led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad. The ...

  Senate, on Thursday, issued a warning to State House officials that, henceforth, President Muhammadu Buhari should stop embarking on foreign trips for medical attention.   According to the Senate, rather than allow President Buhari to jet out to seek ...

  So after President Trump shared the video of the Living Christ Mission Inc based in Onitsha, Anambra State, for staging a rally in support of his second term bid in office, the march got really famous and now, US ...

  The Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Adamu, has said that the Police is working with the Police Service Commission to ensure that officers who lost their lives and those injured during the #EndSARS protest would be promoted to the next ...

Police in Migwani, Kitui County, Kenya have arrested a middle-aged preacher accused of sodomising a 13-year-old boy.   The suspect, who runs a church in Mutulani area, on Tuesday confessed to have sexually abused three boys. Migwani OCPD, Nicholas Mutua, ...

Thousands of chickens are set to be slaughtered after a bird flu outbreak was confirmed at a commercial farm in the northwest of England.   A 3km prevention zone has been set up after the virus was identified at a ...

  A female protester who was one of the victims of the Lekki Toll Gate shooting identified as Chizoba Francisca Agu has died despite undergoing surgery and recovering.       Recall that on 20th October, Nigerian army opened fire ...

Comedian Kathy Griffin retweeted her controversial photograph showing the decapitated head of an effigy of Donald Trump after the President claimed victory in the election.   Griffin, 60, an outspoken opponent of the President who was best known for presenting ...

On Wednesday, 155 new coronavirus cases and four deaths were recorded in Nigeria, after a total of 7,810 samples were tested across the country, according to official records.   This brings the total infection toll to 63,328 while the total ...

Three Nigerian-Americans, Esther Agbaje, Oye Owolewa and Nnamdi Chukwuocha, have won their electoral bids in the United States election held on Tuesday.   Like we told you yesterday, Ms Agbaje, who contested to represent District 59B in the Minnesota House ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise will commence in the first quarter of 2021 ahead of the 2023 general elections.   Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the electoral body announced on ...

Eddie Johnson, the Atlanta Hawks All-Star who was sentenced to life in prison for s.e.xually assaulting a young child in 2008, has died at age 65 from an undisclosed illness.   The two-time NBA All-Star passed away on October 26. ...

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden has eclipsed President Barack Obama’s popular vote record, by receiving more votes than any other candidate in US history.   With counting yet to be concluded in a few states, Biden has won over ...

A commercial bus was, in the early hours of Wednesday, set ablaze by some angry youth after the driver had allegedly killed a motorcyclist in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State.   The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ...

A screening committee set up by the Ekiti State Government has uncovered 362 ghost workers in the state’s workforce.   Prof Adio Folayan, Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development in the state, made this known when he presented the ...

A Nigerian, Ms. Esther Agbaje, has been elected into the Minnesota House of Representatives in Tuesday’s U.S. general elections.   She will represent District 59B in the 134-member House on the platform of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of ...

There were strong indications on Tuesday that the Federal Government had begun a clampdown on promoters of #EndSARS protests by freezing their bank accounts.   Some #EndSARS promoters, who spoke separately to The Punch, said their banks informed them that ...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Wednesday signed an executive order for the rebuilding of Lagos in the aftermath of #EndSARS violence that led to wanton destruction of public and private properties in the State.   The governor also set up an ...