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The Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Taraba State chapter, Peter Gambo, has been reported dead. Peter Gambo who was isolated early this month at the Taraba State specialist isolation centre Jalingo, died Tuesday morning of Covid-19 at the ...

One Emmanuel Opoku, who allegedly poured hot water on his wife’s two b.r.e.a.s.t s, has been remanded by a magistrate’s court sitting in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State. The accused was charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm ...

Police operatives in Rivers State have arrested two notorious kidnappers in connection to the kidnap and murder of one Ereba Gospel Dinabari. The suspected kidnappers arrested by Police operatives in Rivers State led the police yesterday to a forest where ...

The Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to direct the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity to set up a committee to review the age limits for job seekers in the country to allow competent applicants to be employed. The ...

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio has denied all the allegations made against him by a former acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Joi Nunieh, saying there is no iota of truth in them. Nunieh ...

Akintunde Arotile, the father of the first Nigerian female combat pilot, Tolulope, in this interview with GBENGA ODOGUN, says Tolulope from childhood planned to be a pilot Tell us briefly about yourself. I am Engineer Akintude Arotile. I worked with ...

A fresh-faced mother-of-two had TikTok users demanding to see her birth certificate after she revealed her age in a viral video. Stylist Gail Murray-Gonzalez, of Long Island, New York, is 46 but admitted she is often mistaken for someone in ...

George Floyd’s family filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the city of Minneapolis and the four police officers charged in his death. The suit says the officers violated Floyd’s rights when they restrained him and that the city allowed a ...

Another decapitated body, wrapped in a plastic bag, has been found on the roof of a McDonald’s outlet in Bronx, New York. The incomplete body was found early Wednesday, cops and sources told The New York Post. The grisly discovery ...

Gunmen have stormed Gudi, the ancestral home town of Nasarawa Governor, Abdullahi Sule, in Akwanga local government, where they killed two persons and abducted a house wife. It was gathered the former Minister of Information, Labaran Maku’s nephew, Mr Salisu ...

The Kogi government says it is considering selling some non-performing assets of the state to raise capital for infrastructural development. In a statement today, the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Fanwo said the government is also considering “divesting from ...

The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) National Campaign Council for Edo governorship today held a crucial meeting behind closed doors at the Government House in Rivers State. A statement by the Rivers Commissioner for Information and Communications, Paulinus Nsirim, today quoted ...

The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill seeking to establish the City University of Technology, Auchi, Edo and two other tertiary institutions in the country. Others were the Nigerian Maritime University Okerenkoko, Delta State, and the Federal College of Education, ...

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday granted social media influencer Adedamola Adewale also known as Adeherself bail of N500,000. In a ruling, Justice Sherifat Solebo also ordered that Adeherself must provide two sureties with reliable means of income which ...

The suspended chairman of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has been released. The suspended chairman of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has been released.Mr Magu was released on Wednesday evening. He was arrested last week Monday and has ...

Striking medical doctors in Lagos have called off its three days warning strike. The doctors had on Monday embarked on a warning strike over wage disparity between the federal government doctors and state, non-payment of hazard allowance, disengagement of doctors ...

Resident Doctors at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State who are working at the Covid-19 treatment and isolation centre in the state have joined their colleagues in the ongoing industrial action. The doctors reportedly left the isolation ...

The construction of a dedicated manufacturing base for coronavirus vaccines has begun in eastern China. The plant, with an investment of 550million yuan, is set to start mass-producing anti-coronavirus injections as early as next March, according to local officials. China’s ...

A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced former Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Executive Director (ED), Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, to seven years imprisonment for laundering N1.5 billion. Agaba, who was in charge of Maritime, Safety and ...

A former Zonal Medical Director of the Central Hospital, Warri, Dr. Toju Eresanara, is dead. He reportedly died on Wednesday. Sources told The Nation Eresanara may have died of COVID-19 complications. According to reports, he was undergoing treatment at the ...

Two military police officers in Brazil have been suspended after one was seen standing on a black woman’s neck. The decision to investigate the cops was announced by São Paulo Governor João Doria after the 51-year-old victim suffered a broken ...

The apex Igbo socio cultural Organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo and the Nnamdi Kanu led-Indegineous People of Biafra (IPOB) have agreed to work harmoniously towards the interest of the Igbo. The two groups which had been at loggerheads especially in the recent ...

An Australian gunman who murdered 51 Muslims during the Christchurch mosque massacre has sacked his lawyers and will represent himself. Brenton Tarrant, 29, announced the shocking move on Monday, just over a month before his sentencing hearing over the two ...

A bus driver in China drove a vehicle full of passengers off a bridge and into a reservoir in a deliberate act of revenge against society, police have said. The divorced 52-year-old man, known by his surname Zhang, had downed ...

French prosecutors have said police had arrested a man suspected of operating paedophilia sites on secret “darknet” internet networks providing p3rnographic videos and pictures to thousands of people worldwide. The 40-year-old arrested near the southwestern city of Bordeaux on July ...